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PHILADELPHIA – A new outdoor exhibit ... He called the completed President's House site "a giant cultural leap for mankind and womankind, for black and for white." An enclosure built on the ...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The President's House memorial site is open to the public after a moving ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday on Independence Mall. "We will never forget you, and we will always ...
And also we want to make sure the citizens of Philadelphia are proud of what we've done." Gillison hopes legal issues are resolved and expects the President's House site to be transferred before ...
And the President’s House, we are told ... but it has no particular relationship to Philadelphia or this site. The need for some such memorial is keen, but here it seems thumped down as ...
It is a day away, exploring the ghost houses of Philadelphia ... legendary figures in colonial and national history. The President’s House remains are on the southeast corner of Sixth and ...
In Philadelphia, meanwhile, the President’s House underwent a series ... advertised that his store stood on the exact site of “Washington’s White House.” In 1935, what remained of the ...
Herds of tourists meander through the President’s House memorial at Independence ... the enslaved Africans who Washington took to Philadelphia during his presidency. “Where else do you get to work on ...
Businessmen in Philadelphia and New York sought to lure the president by building ... grounds from a barren site that had been left after construction of the White House. With the wing additions ...