The house of Jacob Graff in Philadelphia was where Thomas Jefferson completed his work on the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The building was demolished in 1883, but a faithful reproduction was built by the US National Park Service. The house was at 7th and Market streets.
At the time it was known as the Graff House, after the owner, a local bricklayer. Later on it was torn down but then rebuilt using old photographs and renamed "Declaration House". The National Park Service keeps it as a museum. It is located away from the center of town at 7th and Market Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jefferson felt he could not concentrate because there was too much noise in the center of town where the Pennsylvania State House is, so he went to the Graff house on the edge of town.
It was written in what is now called "Declaration House." Thomas Jefferson rented a second floor space in the house of a bricklayer named Graff at 7th and Market Streets near the outskirts of Philadelphia, because he couldn't work in all the noise in the main part of town. The actual house was demolished in 1883 but was restored based on old photographs by the National Park Service. After it was completed and changed slightly by Ben Franklin and John Adams, it was presented to Congress in Independence Hall (then called the Pennsylvania State House).
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Philadelphia State House
The Graff House, also known as the Declaration House, is located at 7th and Market Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This is the house Thomas Jefferson stayed at during the time of the Second Continental Congress.
The site is called Declaration House, locacted at 7th and Market Streets, Philadelphia. It had been known as Graff House as well, having been built and owned by Jacob Graff about a year before Jefferson wrote the draft.
Louis Graff was born July 25, 1866, in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
He wrote it on the second floor of a house on Seventh and Market Street in Philadelphia. A bricklayer, Jacob Graff, rented it to him.
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In Philadelphia at the home of Jacob Graff. Jr
Steve Graff now living in Round Rock, Texas. His father Milt Graff was a front office mgr. and a former big league player for the Philadelphia Athletics.
At the time it was known as the Graff House, after the owner, a local bricklayer. Later on it was torn down but then rebuilt using old photographs and renamed "Declaration House". The National Park Service keeps it as a museum. It is located away from the center of town at 7th and Market Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jefferson felt he could not concentrate because there was too much noise in the center of town where the Pennsylvania State House is, so he went to the Graff house on the edge of town.
Thomas Jefferson wrote what we now know as the Declaration of Independence ("DI") at the Graff House located at Market Street and 7th in Philadelphia. There were several "rough drafts" and predecessors to the DI that he had written, as well.
The Graff House is where Thomas Jefferson stayed while writing the Declaration of Independence. On Time Tangled Island it is at 1776 AD, or 7 o'clock on the time device.
Joseph Verdi Graff has written: 'Remarks of Hon. Joseph V. Graff, of Illinois, on the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, in the House of representatives, June 15, 1898 ...' -- subject(s): Annexation to the United States
Jacob Graff