Philadelphia Society
Step into a reimagined salon and meet the people whose ideas, work and relationships shaped early Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Society salon. Proposed design by Ralph Appelbaum Associates. Conceptual rendering. Final design subject to change.
Meet Belmont’s Circle
In the proposed salon, gilded portraits of Judge Richard Peters and his family would sit alongside those of people connected to Belmont. Their stories would introduce visitors to political leaders, agricultural innovators and abolitionists in Peters’s circle.
Benjamin Franklin
Rev. Absalom Jones
Marquis de Lafayette
George Washington
Cornelia Wells
Ask a Historic Figure
Visitors could pose questions to animated likenesses of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, the Marquis de Lafayette and others. Their responses would draw on the historical record.