Pennsylvania Hall site
The mayor locked the doors, took the keys and left the hall to the crowd.
Listen to this place’s story in Peplos.
How the story begins
It opened on a Monday morning, and by Thursday night it was burning. Abolitionists who could not find rooms to meet in had sold twenty-dollar shares to build Pennsylvania Hall on this block. Inside, men and women, Black and white, met together. On the Wednesday evening, more than three thousand came to hear Angelina Grimke Weld. She was a South Carolina plantation owner's daughter, married two days earlier.
The rest is in the app. Peplos plays the full story when you reach the place. You can also listen ahead of time.
Visiting
West side of North Sixth Street, between Arch and Race. Nothing to enter: a street marker only. Free at any time.
Sources
- Pennsylvania Hall, Africans in America, PBS
- Angelina Grimke Weld's speech at Pennsylvania Hall, Africans in America, PBS
- Pennsylvania Hall fire 1838, National Park Service
- Invisible Architects Walking Tour, 6th Street between Arch and Race, National Park Service
- 1838, American Heritage
- The Wedding That Ignited Philadelphia, PhillyHistory Blog
- Pennsylvania Hall, Wikipedia
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