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Franklin Court

Franklin-Court

Franklin Court

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The Underground Museum at Franklin Court remains closed for renovations. It is scheduled to reopen in late summer 2013 as the Benjamin Franklin Museum, featuring exhibits, artifacts and computer interactives all about Ben Franklin. The Printing Office and Post Office are open during the construction. Beginning May 20, 2013, access to the Printing Office will be from the 320 Market Street door. There will be no access to Franklin Court from either the Market Street or Chestnut Street gates.


Franklin Court was the site of the handsome brick home of Benjamin Franklin, who lived here while serving in the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention. Franklin died here in 1790; the house was torn down about 20 years later. Today the site contains a steel "ghost structure" outlining the spot where Franklin's house stood and features an underground museum with a film and displays, an 18th century printing office, an architectural/archeological exhibit, an operating post office and a postal museum.

Franklin Court Printing Office
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Benjamin Franklin...In his own words, Library of Congress website on Ben Franklin's legacy
The Silence Dogood Letters

Listen to Franklin's Glass Armonica!
Chester
Mozart
Misty

Benjamin Franklin National Memorial

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Site of Benjamin Franklin Bache's Printing Office
Site of Benjamin Franklin Bache's (B. Franklin's grandson) printing office
Independence Nat'l Historical Park
 
Franklin Fun outside Franklin Court
Ranger Chris Leonard presents "hands on history" with visitors.
Independence Nat'l Historical Park
 
 

Did You Know?

Drawing of Independence Hall

Invited by Congress in 1824, Marquis de Lafayette toured the United States, greeted by crowds and parades.  "The Hall of Independence" was fitted up "in the most splendid manner." The event inspired the phrase “Hall of Independence,” thought to be the precursor of today’s Independence Hall.