City Hall Beautification – Philadelphia, PA
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N 39° 57.168 W 075° 09.812
18S E 486031 N 4422532
With almost 700 rooms, this City Hall is the largest municipal building in the USA & one of the largest in the world.
Waymark Code: WMZVMB
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 01/09/2019
Views: 5
Living New Deal“Beautification of City Hall itself was begun in the autumn of 1936, when a large crew of WPA workers started the gigantic task of cleaning the million square feet of stone composing the building’s exterior. Twenty tons of pipe and 25,000 feet of lumber were used in the scaffolding, erected to a height of 150 feet. Fifty thousand gallons of specially prepared paste were used in one of the largest cleaning jobs ever attempted.”
Project type: Government building (non-park)
Date built or created: 1936
Location: Philadelphia, PA City Hall
City: Philadelphia
Condition: Good upkeep with a little wear and tear
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