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*   *    *   *   THE   MOST   AMERICAN    OF   ALL  CIT
 

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                           THE  PUBLIC  BUILDINGS OR CITY HALL,  Intersection of Broad and Market Streets, in the former Penn Squares

Largest and most costly municipal building in America.   Has cost $23,000,000.  $1,000,000 still needed to complete it.   Covers 4!^ acres, and has 634 rooms.  The tower  surmounted

   by Penn Statue, is 547 feet high.   Clock dials are 20 feet in diameter.   Penn statue is 37  feet high.   Begun in  1871 ; corner stone laid 1874 ; first occupied 1881.   Houses city

       and county offices, County Courts and State,  Superior and Supreme Courts.  The Penn Statue was photographed while on street floor before  being raised to its lofty pedestal