Talk:Independence Hall (United States)

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Contents 1 Images 2 Featured article 3 Original name 4 Thoughts for Improvement 5 Charles Wilson Peale's Museum 6 Removal of Popular Culture section 7 NOT a National Historic Landmark, what kind of landmark is this?

[edit] Images

I uploaded a nice images....Image:Independencehall.jpe ...but i cannot get it to fit right. can someone take a stab? Kingturtle 05:50, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Featured article

When do we want to nominate this for featured article status? --evrik 13:42, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Original name

A good addition to the article might be to include the original name of the building: it obviously wasn't "Independence Hall" or "State House" when it was built. Maybe it was "Province House" or the "House of Assembly" (wild guesses). Indefatigable 20:14, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Exists in introductory paragraph - it was built as the Pennsylvania State House. Alphageekpa (talk) 12:11, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thoughts for Improvement

1. Increase information for the history
   1. Links to Second Continental Congress
   2. If possible, usages of building between Revolution and Constitution
   3. Usages after Constitution
   4. When building was made national monument
   5. Events in the modern era - perhaps combine the Present Event section
2. Improve the Protected area info-box
3. Add section on architecture of the building itself. Size/floors/construction/etc.
4. Do something with the pictures at the bottom of the page, Not all seem to belong to this article. Or at least modify how they are presented, they take up a lot of room for not a lot of value
5. Find more Popular Culture/Trivia items to add. (please see WP:TRIVIA -- Alphageekpa (talk) 11:56, 17 November 2007 (UTC))

Marcsin 16:25, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Charles Wilson Peale's Museum

The article could use some information on the history of the building during the 19th C. While primarily used as a historic monument, the upper floor was Charles Wilson Peale's Museum, a famed collection of curiosities, stuffed birds and animals, including a Mastodon skeleton.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.39.163.114 (talk • contribs) 10:20, March 27, 2007

[edit] Removal of Popular Culture section

I removed the Popular Culture section since it was really just glorified (well, not even glorified, just renamed) WP:TRIVIA. Mentioning that the subject of this article is in a video game, or is in a movie about the American Revolution, contributes nothing. Alphageekpa (talk) 11:55, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NOT a National Historic Landmark, what kind of landmark is this?

Independence Hall is NOT a U.S. National Historic Landmark. See List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania for a complete list of those in the state, and for NHL sources. Independence Hall is a National Historical Park, maybe that is better than being a National Historic Landmark. However, the first paragraph of this article links to national landmark which then suggests that Independence Hall is either a U.S. National Historic Landmark or a U.S. National Natural Landmark (which it is not). Either this article, or the national landmark article, or both, ought to be revised somehow to remove this confusion. doncram (talk) 16:17, 20 November 2007 (UTC)