Editing Carpenters Hall (section)

== Revolutionary Era Activities ==

Carpenters' Hall continued to play significant roles throughout the Revolutionary period. After the First Continental Congress adjourned, the building housed various patriotic activities, including meetings of committees organizing resistance to British policies. The Library Company of Philadelphia, founded by [[Benjamin Franklin]], temporarily relocated to Carpenters' Hall, and the American Philosophical Society also met there. During the British occupation of Philadelphia (September 1777 to June 1778), British forces used the building as a hospital, though the Carpenters' Company's records and library were hidden to prevent confiscation or destruction.<ref name="tinkcom"/>

The building also served as the first home of the First Bank of the United States. When Congress chartered the bank in 1791, it initially operated from Carpenters' Hall while its permanent headquarters on Third Street was under construction. Alexander Hamilton's financial system thus took shape in the same room where the First Continental Congress had met seventeen years earlier, connecting two foundational moments in American political and economic history. The bank's tenure at Carpenters' Hall lasted until 1797, when it moved to its new building (now also a historic site open to the public).<ref name="moss"/>