Talk:Philadelphia City Hall

message: At 555 feet, the Washington Monument in D.C. is taller.  What is the basis for the claim that Philadelphia City Hall is the tallest masonry building in the world?
I'm comfortable calling the Monument a structure, NOT a building, since its not really "occupied" for any reason other than to visit, much like an observation/communications tower, but not sure how others see that.
Also, it isn't clear to me after all these years (I grew up in Phila) whether the cited 548 ft is to the top of the Penn statue, or to the top of the masonry structure itself?  Redneb 17:06, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Washington Monument is Taller 

message: The comment about PHL City Hall maybe being the largest municipal building in the world can definitely be removed. I'm pretty sure the Tokyo City Hall is larger. It's a full city block and 799 feet tall. -th —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.123.62.17 (talk • contribs) 
:Agreed. Plus the only hard fact mentioned is that it has 700 rooms, which itself isn't very meaningful. The total space in square feet or square meters should be cited if anything. In addition to Tokyo City Hall, there are lots of other huge municipal buildings that are probably larger than Philadelhpia City Hall, even North America, like the Manhattan Municipal Building that is 580 feet tall and is very massive.
::I'm tagging the claim in the article.  It's demonstrable that the building is not the largest (currently) by any meaningful metric.  Maybe it was at the time of construction...  I'm proposing to rewrite as below.
current text 	With close to 700 rooms, City Hall is the largest municipal building in the United States and one of the largest in the World.
proposed text	With close to 700 rooms, City Hall is one of the largest municipal buildings in the World.
:: this is supported by the exiting citation. Ar-wiki (talk) 00:43, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Largest Municipal Building 

message: The section headings were added in the course of adding more info and i was a bit surprised to find them gone this a.m.  Since i don't like adding to articles that my work is being removed from, at least without some discussion, i guess i'm done here.  Carptrash 14:25, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: well i certainly accept your apology - but if my edits look like vandalism, then they are probably best gone.  However i shall continue posting my research into this fascinating building. Carptrash 17:48, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Headings were removed. There were no need for additional sections without more data." 

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 03:24, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: The left side of the top of the page was blank because both infoboxes were linked. I un-linked the second infobox and moved it down, so that text would flow to the top of the page (which it did nicely), and inserted several photos (close up of the northeast section of the architecture) and (base of city hall showing start of Mummers Day parade). To un-do the two quotes and get the two nice TEXT QUOTES using  I had to move the tall photo down in that section and move a wider one up, so the two quotes look kinda pretty now...
The only comment I would make at this time, is that postcard-copied picture of City Hall looks sort of jaundiced.... Has anyone thought of replacing it with something nicer?Wikited (talk) 18:32, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blank space at top of page 

message: Regarding the yellowish post card picture of City Hall.... I was able to find a pix of Philadelphia City Hall at the Library Congress and inserted it into the infobox in place of the post card picture. (Click on the picture to see the credits.)
I think this pix is better since it clearly shows the entire building and the effect of its architecture.Wikited (talk) 01:40, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  City Hall Photo in Infobox 

message: We need to do some work on the images on the page.  There are too many bunched to the left, and the Tallest Building's infobox picture is of terrible quality.  Just wanted to get a bit of a consensus before I went through removing images and either looking for more or going to take some myself...nf utvol (talk) 16:27, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I won't speak for the rest, but as far as the Tallest Building infobox, that were wasn't a pic on the page when I added that, so I tried to get something on there (yeah, I know my camera sucks - sue me!).  As far as doing something about it now, please feel free to replace my pic if you can take a better one.  If I wasn't in St. Pete right now, I'd have done it myself months ago - with a better camera, of course. :-) EaglesFanInTampa 16:44, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: For now, I've replaced it with one with much better resolution if not quite as good framing.  Wasted Time R (talk) 03:55, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: "At 167 m (548 ft), including the statue, it is the world's second tallest masonry building after the Washington Monument"" 
:My issue is whether the Washington Monument is or should be considered "a building?"  Our page on it calls it "a structure" and I think other things, but not a building.  Any other ideas?  Einar aka  Carptrash (talk) 23:30, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  I just undid this edit and moved it here to discuss 

message: If Mole Antonelliana is taller than Philadelphia City Hall, and was finished 12 years earlier, and is still standing, how did Philadelphia  City Hall get to be the World's Tallest Building? jnestorius(talk) 23:07, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antonelliana 

message: I find this section to be poorly written and confusing....
Yet another version for why the statue pointed generally north instead of south is that it was the current (1894) architect's method of showing displeasure with the style of the work; that by 1894 it was not in the current, popular Beaux-Arts style; that it was out of date even before it was placed on top of the building.[citation needed]
Perhaps something along these lines might be more clear:
It is also said that the statue pointed northeast to reflect McArthur's displeasure with the statue itself which did not fit the architectural style of the building and did not appeal to McArthur's Beaux-Arts design aesthetic. [citation needed]
Also, the design section could be improved with more direct references to the architecture section of the Philadelphia's City Hall History Page.
Edit-editor-editing (talk) 13:29, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  DESIGN: Architectural Style  

message: A well-known anecdote among Philadelphians relates that City Hall is actually 547' 11-3/4" tall from street level to the top of the hat of the statue of William Penn.  The joke goes, "What happened to the other quarter inch?", as a poke at then-widespread corruption in Philadelphia city government and the building trades at the time of construction. Bill S. (talk) 01:12, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "What happened to the other quarter inch?" 

message: The classic 1952 comic book story Statuesque Spendthrifts by Carl Barks pokes fun at the statue of city founder Penn and the hat agreement. 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:480D:3E90:8808:14DE (talk) 13:41, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Statuesque Spendthrifts