CENTER CITY SIGHTS
Central Business District
38. FORMER UNION TRUST BUILDING - 20 N. Second Street
Also known as the former USF&G Building. Early steel frame, tripartite-designed “skyscraper” built in 1906 with neo-classical detailing. Only 22 feet wide! Thoroughly restored including the grand first floor original bank interior.
39. 30 N. THIRD STREET - N. Third and Walnut Streets
Strategically situated, state-of-the-art office building completed in 1991 overlooking Capitol Park. Unique exterior design highlighted with marble-clad accents. Accessible though the Strawberry Arcade as part of the interconnected downtown multiplex.
40. VETERANS MEMORIAL BUILDING - 112 Market Street
Erected in 1920 as the Claster Building, the first downtown office structure to house leased state operations. Later known as the Blackstone Building. Exterior walls were totally rebuilt in the early 1980s to restore previously altered window fenestration. Now part of the County government complex.
41. WALDEEN PLACE - Walnut and Aberdeen Streets
Anchor building within, and having a complimentary design to, the preserved Walnut Place district. Built in 1991 as the home to the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, Pennsylvania’s principal business advocate organization.
42. WALNUT PLACE - N. Fourth and Walnut Streets
Mixed-use preservation and rehabilitation district of buildings built between 1890 and 1910. Nestled amongst surrounding high-rises. Features specialty shops, prestigious offices, luxury apartments and a splendid plaza contained within the interior of the block.
43. WALNUT STREET BRIDGE* - Riverfront Park at Walnut Street
Oldest surviving structure (1890) to span the Susquehanna River and built to break the toll monopoly enjoyed by the neighboring Camelback Bridge. Converted to a pedestrian and bikeway link to City Island after the 1972 Agnes Flood. Eastern span outlined in lights which, along with the City Island facilities, create a dynamic visual effect at night.
44. WILLIAM SEEL BUILDING* - 319 Market Street
One of the city’s few remaining brownstone commercial facades (erected 1912) of the early 20th Century. Serves as professional offices.
45. WHITAKER CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND THE ARTS - Third and Market Street
First center of its kind in the U.S. where education, science and the performing arts take place under one roof. This 130,000 sq. ft., $52.7 Million complex completed in 1999 contains the dazzling Sunoco Performance Theater, the state-of-the-art and interactive Science Center, and the technologically advanced IMAX Theater with six-story screen. Stunning exterior design and lighting emanates from the Central Business District like a polished gem.
46. ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH - 15 S. Fourth Street
Site of the U.S. presidential Whig convention of 1839, which nominated William Henry Harrison and John Tyler, who both became U.S. Presidents, making Harrisburg the smallest city to ever host a U.S. presidential convention. Church’s roots date to 1814 through an earlier building at this site. Present building, though altered in the 1860s, dates to 1838.
H. OLD DOWNTOWN HARRISBURG COMMERCIAL NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT - S. Third Street, 300 Block of Chestnut Street, first block of N. Third Street, 300 Block of Market Street
Contains the last vestiges of turn-of-the-century Center City including Phase II of Strawberry Square. Interesting cityscape contrasts between older lower scale development and contemporary downtown high-rises.
* Individually Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
