CITY WIDE SIGHTS
Historic Midtown and Old Uptown
18. Tabernacle Baptist Church* - Herr and Capitol Street.
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.
19. Tracy Mansion - N. Front and Muench Streets.
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.
20. Verbeke Street Boulevard - Between N Front and N. Third Streets.
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.
21. William Donaldson House* - 2005 N. Third Street.
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.
22. World War I “Doughboy” Monument - Riverfront Park Near Cumberland Street.
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.
H. Old Midtown Harrisburg National Register Historic District - Forster to Verbeke Streets and N. Front to N. Third Streets.
Cohesive late 19th Century neighborhood located between the Susquehanna River and the Historic Midtown Market District. Represents Harrisburg’s first urbanized neighborhood.
H. Fox Ridge Federally Certified Historic District - Forster to Herr Streets and N. Third to N. Sixth Streets.
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.
H. Old Uptown Harrisburg National Register Historic District - Reily to Maclay Streets and N. Second to N. Third Streets.
Large Queen Anne and Italianate-architecturally styled neighborhood once representing the northern end of the city’s development. Marvelously true to its original appearance.
