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Urbanized Harrisburg on the bluff and beyond, topographically contrasting with the older original borough along the River. Site of early industries and sound working class neighborhoods. Reservoir Park rising to the City's summit on the which The National Civil War Museum stands as a noble sentinel. The well-planned preserve of Bellevue Park nestled amidst robust neighborhoods of renewal.
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 Originally known as the Catholic High School, this prominent edifice opened in 1930. Neo-Gothic styled spires highlight this Alma Mater, which stands at the base of Reservoir Park's southern slope. Serves the metropolitan Harrisburg community.
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1. Bishop Mcdevitt High School
2200 Market Street
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 Colonial Revival in style, this massive single-family residence erected in 1909 by Harrisburg attorney A. Carson Stamm, is unusually placed within the older Mount Pleasant townhouse setting. Property now serves a non-profit center.
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2. Carson Stamm Mansion
333 S. 13th Street
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 Sylvan garnished burial ground of many Harrisburg and Pennsylvania notables including governors, generals, Civil War dead and leaders of business and industry. Graced by stately mausoleums, distinguished obelisks and fine statuary and back dropped by a sweeping panorama of Center City. This is Harrisburg's oldest cemetery, which opened in 1845. Revolutionary War soldiers were reburied here.
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3. Harrisburg Cemetery*
13th and Liberty Streets
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 Originally served eastern Harrisburg as one of two of the city's high schools, both built in the mid 1920s and the other being William Penn High School uptown, now consolidated as Harrisburg High School. Note the unusual and elaborate Neo-Italianate design treatments and details. Thoroughly renovated with major building additions and new facilities.
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4. Harrisburg High School (Formerly John Harris High School)
Market Street and Hale Avenue
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 Chateau-styled complex of military buildings, which emulate French estate architecture. Headquarters to the 28th Infantry Division (Mechanized) of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. The Division has a distinguished record of service dating to the 19th Century.
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5. Harrisburg Military Post*
14th and Calder Streets
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 Dating to 1835, one of the earliest and few surviving farmhouses on Allison Hill. Later development of the surrounding Herr farmland grew as Harrisburg's Schreinertown neighborhood. Property continues to be residential.
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6. Henry Herr House
1330 Verbeke Street
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 Oldest building in the City of Harrisburg erected circa. 1740 by Rev. John Elder. Served as the 18th Century parsonage for Elder's Paxton Presbyterian Church in neighboring Paxtang. Church's roots predate the founding of Harrisburg. Home remains a private residence.
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7. John Elder House
2426 Ellerslie Street
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 Erected in 1898 as the home of the Reservoir Park superintendent and his family. American Foursquare in style and thoroughly restored as the Park's office with art gallery and reception spaces. Fabulous views from broad porch verandas.
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8. Mansion At Reservoir Park
100 Concert Drive
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 Built in 1876 by Jacob Haehnlen as a summer residence in the Italianate style, this house's surrounding grape vineyard was later subdivided into what became known as Bellevue Park, Pennsylvania's first fully planned residential community. Originally known as Breeze Hill, the house became the home in 1908 of nationally known horticulturalist, environmentalist and publisher J. Horace McFarland. The ensuing Bellevue Park, laid out in 1910, is characterized by winding lanes, wooded topography, underground utilities and period street lighting. Impressive mansions and open preserves protected by stringent covenants.
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9. Mcfarland House and Bellevue Park
2101 Bellevue Road and Beyond to The East
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 Built in 1906 as the home of the famous Mount Pleasant Press, which specialized in color printing of seed catalogues under the guidance of its founder, noted horticulturalist and City Beautiful pioneer J. Horace McFarland. Converted to apartments and the Danzante Cultural Center through a sensitive restoration process as an anchor property upon entering Allison Hill.
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10. Mcfarland Press Building
Mulberry and Crescent Streets
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 Largest museum in the world related to the American Civil War. Perched as a sentinel at the city's highest point and on ground occupied by a defending Union artillery battery during the Civil War. Highlights Harrisburg's important role as the largest Union Army training camp, with hospitals, Confederate Prisoner of War encampments and primary supply and distribution centers. The Museum depicts the Civil War in its entirety including the Confederacy and the issue of slavery, as well as the pre- and post-war periods, through a repository of never-before exhibited national artifacts and documents. Surrounding grounds are the site of living history encampments and reenactments.
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11. The National Civil War Museum
Lincoln Circle At Reservoir Park
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 Erected in 1889 and now one of the oldest school buildings, originally erected as a school, that survives in Harrisburg. Gothic Revival in style, this edifice has long been a focal point in historic Mount Pleasant and presently serves as the community's Hispanic-American Center.
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12. Old Webster Elementary School, Spanish Speaking Center
301 S. 13th Street
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 Original highway linking downtown Harrisburg to Allison Hill and points east. Early road construction evident through traversing instead of cutting through the hill bluff. Rural appearance contrasts with surrounding urban grid street layout.
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13. Old Jonestown Road
Between Market and State Streets Just East Of Cameron St
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 Harrisburg's largest park and located at the highest point in the city. Contains one underground thirty million gallon reservoir, and two 6 million gallon above ground reservoirs, which gravity-feed freshwater to the city's water system. Above ground lie the elegantly restored Caretaker's Mansion, the Arts Village at Reservoir Park and the open-air band shell along with a myriad of walkways, statuary and landscaped gardens. The Park is highlighted at its summit by the magnificent National Civil War Museum. Original portion of the Park dates to 1845.
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14. Reservoir Park
20th and State Streets
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 Military Storage house erected in 1874 and rebuilt in 1914. Central tower, though modified, remains from the first structure. Iron fence enclosing grounds was moved from the old State Capitol Building after the Capitol's destruction by fire in 1897.
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15. State Arsenal
N. 18th and Herr Streets
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 Grand boulevard accented by period streetlights descending from Allison Hill to the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Bridge and the State Capitol Complex. Striking vista of the Main Capitol Building throughout its course for westbound sightseers.
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16. State Street East Corridor
State Street on Allison Hill
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 Perched in acropolis-like fashion on Allison Hill's western bluff, this edifice was erected in the Greek Revival style as the home of Colonel John Brandt in 1866. Later served as a catholic orphanage and was more recently converted through a magnificent restoration project as the home of Harrisburg's YWCA and Charter School.
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17. Sylvan Heights Mansion, YWCA Kunkel Center
101 Market St
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 20-mile parkland corridor encircling the City of Harrisburg developed under the City Beautiful Movement of the early 20th Century and now rediscovered as an important recreation, educational and bikeway resourse. Greenbelt provides continuous links to the City's major parks and is accented by landscaping and markers.
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18. The Capital Area Greenbelt
Various Park-Linked Locations in and outside of Harrisburg. Accessed From Reservoir Park
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 Open-air amphitheater and bandshell erected in 1933 and site of numerous performances including the Reservoir Park Concert Series and the Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival. Named for Mortimer Levitt, who provided restoration and arts programming funds for free summer performing arts series.
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19. The Levitt Performing Arts Pavilion
Reservoir Park Near Walnut St. Park Ent.
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 Erected in 1907 as a resting point for horses after ascending Allison Hill by way of Derry Street when it intersected with Cameron Street. Surrounding brick plaza acts as a focal point for the Mount Pleasant Historic District.
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20. Horse Watering Fountain
Derry and Mulberry Streets
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 Oldest section of Allison Hill representing the early growth of Harrisburg to the east. Home to numerous Victorian residences, older industrial sites and characterized by angled streets and many shade trees.
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Mount Pleasant National Register Historic District
Market to Brookwood Streets and Allison Hill Bluff to 19th Street
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* Individually Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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