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The Independence Hall, USA is a national landmark of United States of America located inside the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th Streets. The hall is primarily known as the location where the Declaration of Independence was contested and accepted, the Independence Hall, USA building was completed in 1753 as the Pennsylvania State House for the Province of Pennsylvania. It became the meeting place of the Second Continental Congress. The United States Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution were both signed at Independence Hall. The Independence Hall, USA is now a part of the larger Independence National Historical Park and listed as a World Heritage Site.

Independence Hall is a red brick building, built between 1732 and 1753, and designed in the Georgian style by Edmund Woolley and Andrew Hamilton and constructed by Woolley. Its building was specially made by the Pennsylvania colonial legislature and it was in the beginning inhabited by the colonial government of Pennsylvania as their State House. Two smaller buildings are next to Independence Hall: to the east is Old City Hall, and to the west is Congress Hall. These three buildings are jointly on a city block known as Independence Square, along with Philosophical Hall, the original home of the American Philosophical Society.