Ben Franklin House

The Ben Franklin House is an apartment building located at 834 Chestnut Street in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Originally opened in 1925 as the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, it was designed by Horace Trumbauer. In the mid-1980s the hotel was renovated and reopened as the Benjamin Franklin House. It is affectionately referred to as "The Ben" by many Philadelphians. The building currently has 412 apartments, 120,000 square feet (11,000 m) of office space, and one of Philadelphia's largest ballrooms. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.