Which building, now called Independence Hall, hosted the 1776 Congress linked to America250?

The Pennsylvania State House, now called Independence Hall, hosted the 1776 Congress linked to America250.

The building in Philadelphia was completed in 1753 as the seat of Pennsylvania’s colonial government. The Second Continental Congress used it while discussing independence, and the Declaration of Independence was adopted there in 1776.

The same building later hosted the Constitutional Convention, which drafted the United States Constitution in 1787. Its connection to both founding documents made it a powerful national symbol, and the name Independence Hall became widely used during the nineteenth century.

The building is sometimes confused with Federal Hall in New York City, where George Washington took the presidential oath in 1789. Faneuil Hall and the Old State House in Boston are also important Revolutionary-era landmarks, but neither was the Pennsylvania State House where the Declaration was adopted.