City Tavern- where many of the delegates met for dinner and conversation. It is likely that many of the ideas that became part of the Declaration of Independence were discussed here.
The City Tavern- This tavern was torn down and rebuilt after the colonial period. The look and feel inside is just like the 1700's. Taverns were the colonial equivalent to a hotel or motel. A room, a meal, a place to sit and talk. Many taverns served as informal meeting places after sessions in what we now call Independence Hall.
The site of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the commissioning of George Washington as Commander and Chief of the Continental Army, the formation of the Articles of Confederation, and the drafting of the Constitution. Whew. Busy room. Read what Benjamin Franklin said at the final signing of the Constitution.
"Whilst the last members were signing [the Constitution], Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art, a rising, from a setting, sun. I have, said he, often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; but now at length, I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising, and not a setting sun. " - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, debates in the Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1787.James Madison, Journal of the Federal Convention, ed. E. H. Scott, p. 763 .