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The Home of the American Philosophical Society!

Philosophical Hall is the former home of the American Philosophical Society; while it remains the administrative headquarters of our nation's oldest and most established learned society, the actual "home" has moved to nearby and beautiful Ben Franklin Hall. The buildings' story with the APS is long and complicated, involving several renovations, and the problem of an ever-growing library, but the building itself is simply worth a visit. The hall still bears all the traces of the brilliant minds that have passed through it (a chair used by Jefferson, for example), the storied history of innovation and analytic thinking it sponsored, and a veritable treasure trove of famous paintings.