West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Philadelphia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 08, 1976. NRIS 76001665.
1 contributing building.
Memorial Hall is a Beaux-Arts style building in the Centennial District of West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built as the art gallery for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, it is the only major structure from that exhibition to survive. It subsequently housed the Pennsylvania Museum of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Since October 18, 2008, the Hall has served as home to the Please Touch Museum. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
The building is located west of the Schuylkill River, at the corner of East Memorial Hall Drive and the Avenue of the Republic.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994329