Old City Hall

Philadelphia
PA

The U.S. Supreme Courtroom in Old City Hall

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Completed in 1791 for use by the city, the U.S. Supreme Court shared its space with the mayor until 1800; access is available through a Park Ranger tour.
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[King] George was unswervingly loyal to people he trusted and ideas he believed to be true; and he behaved in ways that a modern psychologist might interpret as obsessive. As a young man he would, for example, eat virtually the same dinner every day of his adult life (bread, soup, beets or turnips, and mutton — varying only on Sundays, when he allowed himself roast beef). The regularity of his tastes bespoke a deeper hunger for order.

Fred Anderson
Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766 (2000)