CITY WIDE SIGHTS
Historic Midtown and Old Uptown
8. Holocaust Memorial - Riverfront Park At Sayford Street.
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.
9. Home Of The Friendless - Homeland Center 1901 N. Fifth Street.
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.
10. Jackson House - 1006 N. Sixth Street.
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.
11. Mira Lloyd Dock Residence - 1427 N. Front Street.
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.
12. Paxtang Manor - Calder Street and Points North.
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.
13. Penn State Eastgate Center - 1010 N. Seventh Street.
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.
14. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency - 1200 N. Seventh Street.
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.
15. Pennsylvania National Fire Museum - Fourth and Muench Streets.
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.
16. Simon Cameron School* - 1839 Green Street.
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.
17. Sunken Gardens At Riverfront Park - N. Front Street Between Cumberland and Verbeke Streets.
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.
