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The venerable Broad Street Market celebrating Central Pennsylvania diversity while anchoring the emerging life and spirit of the surrounding Midtown Market District.
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The 19th Century city of the Queen Anne and Italianate design styles. Old Uptown and Historic Midtown bursting with pride and neighborliness. The new neighborhoods of Capitol Heights, Market Place and New Fox Ridge generating innovative dimensions in the cityscape and contemporary standards in urban living.
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 Oldest continuously operated market house in the United States. Civil War-era, Stone Building dates to 1860. Features the ethnic-cuisine of the Market Cafe fourt as a major lunch desod court as a major lunch destination. Prominently situated at the head of Verbeke Street with central vista west to the Susquehanna River. Part of the two-building market complex with central plaza as community focal point.
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1. Broad Street Market (Stone Building)*
N. Third and Verbeke Streets
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 Erected 1874-1886 as an expansion to the original Stone Building. Features Palladian windows and central clerestory ceiling and roof structure. Restored with the Stone Building in the mid 1990s including period windows and doors with upscale signage and banners. Offers fresh produce, meats and poultry by local farmers and the Pennsylvania Dutch.
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2. Broad Street Market (Brick Building)
Verbeke and Capitol Streets
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 Cohesive neighborhood designed in the Queen Anne building style and contained within the Old Uptown National Register Historic District. Developed in the 1890s by homebuilder Benjamin Engle, the neighborhood achieves distinction through its original architectural consistency and sensitive restoration.
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3. Engleton
Reily to Kelker Streets and N. Second to N. Third Streets
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 Stands at and faces the western terminus of the Verbeke Street Boulevard. Erected in 1924 as a memorial to those Harrisburg firefighters who served in and were casualties of World War I. Sculpted by C. Maretti.
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4. Fireman's Memorial Statue
Riverfront Park At Verbeke Street
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 Situated on three beautifully landscaped acres overlooking the Susquehanna and completed in 1968 as the home of Pennsylvania's Chief Executive. Designed in the Georgian style with formal staterooms, grand main hallway and elegant staircase. Houses period artifacts, furnishings and artwork reflecting Pennsylvania's rich cultural heritage, with largest outdoor sculpture honoring industrial workers.
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5. Governor's Residence
2035 N. Front Street
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 1890s former bank building designed in the Brownstown Romanesque Style. Converted in 1993 to the headquarters of the City's leading historic preservation organization and site of special events and art exhibits. Original banking fixtures including vaults and marble counters are retained and preserved.
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6. Historic Harrisburg Resource Center
1230 N. Third Street
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 Revitalized historic neighborhood shopping district featuring unique shops, a major bookstore operation, eateries and pubs anchored by the Broad Street Market, Midtown Arts Center and HACC Midtown.
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7. Historic Midtown Market District
N. Third Street From Forster to Reily Streets
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 Erected in 1994 by the United Jewish Federation of Harrisburg in memory of the eleven million people who were victims of the Nazis during World War II. The stainless steel sculpture, which is wrapped in barbed wire, is set in a basin with granite coping on which are carved the names of the thirteen Nazi death camps. Designer: David Ascalon. Engraver: R.J. Romberger & Sons.
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8. Holocaust Memorial
Riverfront Park At Sayford Street
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 Established in 1867 at this location as a haven for the orphans and widows of slain Civil War soldiers. Located just south of the former Civil War recruitment facility, Camp Curtin. Has grown into a major and highly reputable residential care facility for the elderly.
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9. Home of the Friendless
Homeland Center 1901 N. Fifth Street
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 Erected in 1883 and Second Empire in architectural style. Served as the residence of German Jackson, a bell-cap at the old Penn Harris Hotel who operated a boarding home here for many nationally and internationally-known sports and entertainment personalities who visited Harrisburg in the mid 20th Century.
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10. Jackson House
1006 N. Sixth Street
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 In this Romanesque Revival styled town home lived Mira Lloyd Dock (1853-1945), one of the principal catalysts of Harrisburg's City Beautiful Movement of the early 20th Century. Dock was a botanist, educator, author, civic leader, conservationist and political activist who made a major mark in improving the city's quality of life.
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11. Mira Lloyd Dock Residence
1427 N. Front Street
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 1,272-acre tract of land north of Verbeke Street first surveyed in 1732 for Thomas Penn. Sold in 1760 to colonial settlers Thomas Simpson, Thomas Forster and Thomas McKee. Ground upon which uptown Harrisburg would later rise.
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12. Paxtang Manor
Calder Street and Points North
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 Opened in 1991 for both academic and continuing education courses as well as for credit and non-credit courses. Home to the E-Commerce center.
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13. Penn State Eastgate Center
1010 N. Seventh Street
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 385,000 square foot headquarters building to one of the largest financial aid organizations in the United States, which assists millions of students nationally. The headquarters complex and adjacent parking garage represent major investment on the N. Seventh Street office corridor spill-over development from Center City.
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14. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency
1200 N. Seventh Street
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 Erected in 1899 as the home of the Reily Hose Company fire brigade and now serves, through a stunning restoration achievement, as a distinctive fire museum featuring authentic and priceless national and local firefighting equipment from years past, including the oldest fire apparatus in the nation, a 1790s hand pump cart.
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15. Pennsylvania National Fire Museum
Fourth and Muench Streets
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 Magnificent 35-unit apartment conversion of a former elementary school built in 1897. Second Renaissance Revival in style and reminiscent of an elegant old hotel. Located in the heart of the Old Uptown National Register Historic District. Named for President Lincoln's first Secretary of War, who lived in Harrisburg on South Front Street.
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16. Simon Cameron School*
1839 Green Street
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 Exemplary park improvement of the early 20th Century City Beautiful Movement. Sunken configuration resulting from the Garden's placement in the excavated basements of the riverfront neighborhood known as Hardscrabble, demolished to make way for the unification of Riverfront Park and overall improvements to Harrisburg's waterfront. Formal garden design is striking against the Susquehanna's backdrop.
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17. Sunken Gardens At Riverfront Park
N. Front Street Between Cumberland and Verbeke Streets
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 Built in the 1880s as the German Evangelical Zion Lutheran Church. Acquired by present Baptist congregation in the 1970s. Only historic building to remain on the north side of Herr Street in Fox Ridge. Long-time landmark in this totally transformed neighborhood.
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18. Tabernacle Baptist Church*
Herr and Capitol Streets
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 Spared from the wrecker's ball after being damaged by the Agnes Flood of 1972, this building, designed in the Tudor Revival style, was erected as the home of David E. Tracy, co-founder of the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe-Bending Company. Later served as the original Osteopathic Hospital. The building symbolizes the elegance and fabric of historic Front Street.
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19. Tracy Mansion
N. Front and Muench Streets
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 Ambient promenade linking Riverfront Park with the street's vista terminus of the Broad Street Market. Atypically wide boulevard enabling the introduction of a center-island mall featuring period bollard light fixtures and a wide array of attractive plants and flowers.
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20. Verbeke Street Boulevard
Between N Front and N. Third Streets
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 Lovely Queen Anne-styled mansion built by William Donaldson, noted Harrisburg businessman and real estate developer. One of the last surviving homes of the fashionable 1890s Cottage Ridge neighborhood in this portion of N.Third Street.
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21. William Donaldson House*
2005 N. Third Street
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 Erected in 1922 and presented to the city by Mr. and Mrs. E.J. Stackpole, Sr. Honors soldiers who served during World War I. Boulders supporting the statue, sculpted by John Hardy, were brought from the Gettysburg Battlefield.
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22. World War I "Doughboy" Monument
Riverfront Park Near Cumberland Street
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 Major new 65,000 sq. ft. "green" office building erected to support the activites of HACC Midtown. Houses the administrative headquarters for all of HACC’s six regional campuses as well as the offices of the Green Center of South-central Pennsylvania.
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23. Campus Square
1426 N. Third Street
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 Harrisburg Area Community College’s newest satellite center offering building and trade programs in an evolving campus of adaptive reuse and new construction. Flagship buildings connected by a landscaped "urban meadow" walkway. Major anchor in the Midtown Market District.
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24. HACC-Harrisburg Midtown Center
4th, 3rd and Reily Streets
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 Snazzy movie house featuring innovative independent and foreign films as a regional Midtown destination with art gallery and upscale café. Great synergy with HACC Midtown next door.
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25. Reily Midtown Cinema
250 Reily Street
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 Adaptive re-use of a 19th Century building representing a major addition to the arts and education destination of the Midtown Market District radiating from Center City. Features studio spaces, film office 10,000 sq foot theater, swimming pool and art galleries and full-service café.
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26. Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center (HMAC)
1110 N. Third Street
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 Cohesive late 19th Century neighborhood located between the Susquehanna River and the Historic Midtown Market District. Represents Harrisburg's first urbanized neighborhood.
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27. Old Midtown Harrisburg National Register Historic District
Forster to Verbeke Streets and N. Front to N. Third Streets
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 Early railroad worker's neighborhood and located just north of the Capitol Complex. Contains sensitively designed new "in-fill constructed" town homes. Escaped demolition after plans to expand the Capitol Complex here were stopped by the City.
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28. Fox Ridge Federally Certified Historic District
Forster to Herr Streets and N. Third to N. Sixth Streets
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 Large Queen Anne and Italianate-architecturally styled neighborhood once representing the northern end of the city's development. Marvelously true to its original appearance.
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29. Old Uptown Harrisburg National Register Historic District
Reily to Maclay Streets and N. Second to N. Third Streets
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* Individually Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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