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The 20th Century-developed city marching northward up-river. Italian Lake's serenity punctuating parkland enrichment. Grand Front Street mansions gazing upon pristine Susquehanna River islands. The site of Camp Curtin and the training ground for thousands who went forward to preserve the Union. Homes of substance and lasting quality set amidst educational and medical institutions.
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 Turn-of-the-20th Century uptown firehouse named for the Civil War training camp, which occupied this entire neighborhood. Converted in the late 1980s to a well-established eatery featuring barbecue cuisine.
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1. Camp Curtin Fire Station*
2504 N. Sixth Street
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 Smallest state park in the Commonwealth. Commemorates the site of Camp Curtin, the largest Union camp during the Civil War and second only to Gettysburg in its importance in the state's war role. Confederate General Robert E. Lee set upon capturing Camp Curtin and Harrisburg when his troops marched northward, arriving across the river from Harrisburg, before being directed to a skirmish which grew into the battle of Gettysburg 35 miles away. Named for Civil War-era Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin. Adjacent church is home to the Camp Curtin Historical Society and features an inspiring Civil War mural.
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2. Camp Curtin Park/Mitchell Memorial Methodist Church
N. Sixth and Woodbine Streets
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 Developed in the 1920s as the Harrisburg Academy, English collegiate-styled campus now serves as a regional higher education facility sponsored by the State System of Higher Education, with the State System also headquartered at the site. Campus thoroughly restored with underground parking garage.
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3. Dixon University Center
2986 N. Second Street
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 Culmination of 150 years of the development of Harrisburg's most stately homes beginning with the John Harris Mansion of the 1760s to the south and evolving northward with 19th Century structures to these magnificent revivals of the 1920s. Tremendous views of the Susquehanna.
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4. Front Street Corridor Mansions
N. Front Street
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 Baroque park setting paradise around a manmade lake reclaimed from a swamp in the 1930s. Lake spanned by the picturesque Japanese Bridge and accented by the "Dance of the Eternal Spring" centerpiece sculpture. Both southern and northern lakes thoroughly upgraded and stabilized including enhancement of surrounding gardens and installation of period lighting.
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5. Italian Lake
N. Third and Division Streets
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 Magnificent Front Street mansion erected in 1926 as the home of the King family. Southern wing added later in matching architectural style when building was converted to offices. Note Mediterranean tiled roof, Italianate exterior features, broad portico and extensive grounds.
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6. King Mansion
2201 N. Front Street
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 Inspired by the classic Greek obelisk. Originally erected in the middle of the N. Second and State Streets intersection downtown from 1866 to 1876 as a tribute to Dauphin County's Civil War soldiers. Moved to its present location in 1960.
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7. Obelisk
N. Third and Division Streets, Northeast Corner
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 Originally served uptown Harrisburg as one of the city's two high schools, both built in the mid 1920s and the other being John Harris High School in eastern Harrisburg. Now the Harrisburg Vocational Technical School. The building's grand neo-classical style is well suited for the edifice's commanding view of Italian lake and mountains beyond.
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8. Old William Penn High School
2915 N Third Street
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 Presented by the Physicians for Social Responsibility and dedicated in 1993. A wonderful collection of trees, flowers, rocks and sculpture to inspire the pursuit of peace and the preservation of the earth. The Garden is highlighted by the creation of three series of spiritual sculptures by Dr. Frederick Franck which include: "Death & Transfiguration", "Seven Generations", and Hiroshima - The Unkillable Human.
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9. Peace Garden
Riverfront Park Between Emerald and Maclay Streets
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 Outpatient healthcare complex with specialty hospital services all concentrated in the Landis and Memorial Buildings. Consolidated from the older and original hospital building now serving as the Penn Center office complex.
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10. Polyclinic Hospital
2501 N. Third Street
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 Remote woodland and river wilderness accenting the shallow Susquehanna north of Forster and Maclay Streets. Great for exploration by boat or canoe and all within the city limits. Island opposite Woodbine Street is bisected by hidden channel.
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11. Susquehanna River Islands
Opposite Uptown and Riverside
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 Headquarters of the Harrisburg area Shriner organization erected in 1930. Elaborate mid-eastern design elements highlighted by massive tower reminiscent of a minaret. Spectacular interior. Large auditorium hosts numerous entertainment activities and famous personalities.
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12. Zembo Shrine Temple
N. Third and Division Streets, Southeast Corner
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 Home to Harrisburg's Masonic Perseverance Lodge. 1,200-seat auditorium is the site of theater, ballet, craft shows and other cultural venues and special events. Erected in the 1950s next door to the Masonic-related Zembo Shrine Temple.
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13. Scottish Rite Cathedral
2701 N. Third Street
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 Built in the early 1990s. Replacement to the Old Waterworks at Front and North Streets, destroyed in the Agnes Flood of 1972, by providing a back-up water source directly from the Susquehanna River in case of drought to that of the city's primary reservoir. Simple Georgian design blends with Front Street and masks interior pumping controls.
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14. Water Intake Pumping Station
3009 N. Front Street
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 Conversion of older portion of Polyclinic Hospital to a well-designed office complex through creative adaptive reuse. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a fine example of a preserved evolution of early 20th century hospital development.
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15. Penn Center
2601 N. Third Street
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 Multi-purpose facility serving the metropolitan area providing programs and services ranging from early childhood to fitness, senior adult programming to swimming, and summer camp to aerobics. Also, home of the Rabbi David I. Silver Yeshiva Academy and the Hebrew High School.
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16. Jewish Community Center
3301 N. Front Street
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* Individually Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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