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Really good images on the page above. Thread tools for URL's and images are broken or primitive so you must highlight and right-click to navigate to the page. I don't know how anybody posts images here.
Another vote for Philadelphia. Though, on the downside, that building is indirectly responsible for Philadelphia having a lackluster skyline for many years. There used to be a "gentleman's agreement" that no building could exceed the height of the William Penn statue, so you ended up with a bunch of squat, boring buildings all about a foot shorter. I was so glad when they built One Liberty Place and finally broke the barrier. Now, Philadelphia has a much, much better skyline. And the sightlines to City Hall are still preserved on Market Street, Broad Street, and the Ben Franklin Parkway.
and I would place Minneapolis' Richardsonian Romanesque in that same class of quality.
I am not as much of a fan of Second Empire/Beaux Arts city halls, which list strongly more towards grandiosity more than to elegance. (Philadelphia's City Hall is best for its genius placement and use in the urban plat; as a building, though, its ungainly.)
Philadelphia’s city hall was the tallest building in the world for a while, I think until one of my favorite skyscrapers, The Singer building was built in New York City. The Philly city hall is still one of the largest municipal buildings in the world and is still the tallest masonry building in the world. The pictures provided do not give a good impression of its height 549 feet - fifty stories. It was the tallest in the city for years until in 1986 when the gentlemen’s agreement was abolished whereby no buildings taller than it would be allowed. It has an observation deck at the top just below the William Penn statue. Below the building in the subway underground, there are 3 train stations (Broad Street Line - City Hall station / Market Street Line - 15th street station/ Subway Surface Line- 15th street station)
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Philly City Hall
