After Reading Terminal Market, our group made its way to Philadelphia’s City Hall. It is the second-tallest masonry building in the world at 538 feet/ 167 meters (a building in Italy is a few cm taller). It is topped by a statue of William Penn, and until 1987 there was a “gentleman’s agreement” that no buidling in the city limits would be taller than Penn’s hat; then an office building (One Liberty Place) opened at 945 ft. The stonework and statuary are remarkable, and these photos only hit at it. https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2022/June-2022/Philly-City-Hall/

Your gallery does a wonderful job in displaying the essence of that remarkable structure. For those of us who occasionally drive in downtown Philly, City Hall is right there, smack in the middle of the street, forcing traffic around it. With all the traffic, one is forced to stare at this massive icon, and enjoy the view. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 8:13 PM Rick Womer <rickpics14@gmail.com> wrote: > After Reading Terminal Market, our group made its way to Philadelphia’s > City Hall. It is the second-tallest masonry building in the world at 538 > feet/ 167 meters (a building in Italy is a few cm taller). It is topped by > a statue of William Penn, and until 1987 there was a “gentleman’s > agreement” that no buidling in the city limits would be taller than Penn’s > hat; then an office building (One Liberty Place) opened at 945 ft. > > The stonework and statuary are remarkable, and these photos only hit at > it. > > https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2022/June-2022/Philly-City-Hall/ > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions.

Wonderful set, Rick - very Eurocentric. So clean too. Must be inspiring to live in such a place. Very little of that in SA, restricted to the old cities & a few rural Churches. Nothing at all in my part of the world. Here they even burn or tear down what little we have (e.g. Parliament which is now unusable & many "offensive" statues) and there is no money even for basic maintenance because so much of the fiscus is being stolen through corruption on a daily basis. The story of Africa. Alan C On 13-Jun-22 02:13 AM, Rick Womer wrote: > After Reading Terminal Market, our group made its way to Philadelphia’s City Hall. It is the second-tallest masonry building in the world at 538 feet/ 167 meters (a building in Italy is a few cm taller). It is topped by a statue of William Penn, and until 1987 there was a “gentleman’s agreement” that no buidling in the city limits would be taller than Penn’s hat; then an office building (One Liberty Place) opened at 945 ft. > > The stonework and statuary are remarkable, and these photos only hit at it. > > https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2022/June-2022/Philly-City-Hall/ >