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Harrisburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 340 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a 19th-century residential area of Harrisburg. It contains the original core of the city. Located in the district is Harris Park, which unifies the district. Notable buildings include the Y.M.C.A. (1932), William Maclay Mansion (1792), Grace Methodist Church (1871), St. Stephen's Episcopal Cathedral (1826), St. Michael's Lutheran Church (1906), Cathedral of Saint Patrick (1907) and the Unit Row Houses. The John Harris Mansion is located in the district and listed separately.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

The Dauphin County Courthouse is a government building of Dauphin County located in the county seat, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 2, 1993.

Harrisburg's Market Square is located in Downtown Harrisburg at the intersection of 2nd and Market Streets. The square was created in 1785. Since then, it has traditionally been the navigational center of the city, and since the 1980s has undergone a revival with several new commercial, residential and retail spaces either planned or built. Market Square serves as a hub for Capital Area Transit (CAT) buses. It is one block from Riverfront Park and the Market Street Bridge, which crosses over the Susquehanna River.

Downtown Harrisburg is the central core neighborhood, business and government center which surrounds the focal point of Market Square, and serves as the regional center for the greater metropolitan area of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Harrisburg's downtown Center City comprises the original 80-acre (320,000 m2) borough laid out in a grid pattern by John Harris in 1785. East–west streets are named and north–south streets are numbered. Market Street, running east–west, is the dividing point between north and south street designations.Harrisburg's Central Business District includes the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex and other state government offices, the Dauphin County Courthouse and other county government offices, City of Harrisburg offices, Pennsylvania State Museum, federal government offices, and other, non-government related commercial retail and office development. Some residential development, both in apartment high-rises and in the upper floors of mixed commercial/residential use buildings, is also located in the downtown area. Downtown is bordered in the northwest by the mixed commercial/residential use Capitol District, in the west by the Susquehanna River, in the southwest by the largely residential Shipoke neighborhood, in the south by Interstate 83, in the east by Amtrak and Norfolk Southern Railway lines, and in the north by Midtown Harrisburg, a mixed-use commercial and residential neighborhood. Forster Street is usually considered the boundary between Downtown and Midtown Harrisburg. City Island, located in the middle of the Susquehanna River directly west of downtown, is typically considered part of Downtown Harrisburg.

SciTech Campus of Harrisburg High school, located in downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is a regional math and science public school that attracts students from Harrisburg and neighboring school districts. Beginning with the 9th grade, SciTech Campus prepares students for a university curriculum, studying toward degrees in science, engineering and technology. Enrollment is limited to 400 pupils The opportunity to create a unified 9-16 curriculum is unique in the nation and represents a potentially replicable approach to bridging the frequent discontinuity between high school and higher education. The school is a federally designated Title I school. It opened in September 2003. In 2011, the Harrisburg City School District Board changed the name of the school to Harrisburg High School, SciTech Campus. Prior the name was Scitech High.In 2013, Harrisburg High School, SciTech Campus' enrollment was reported as 366 pupils in 9th through 12th grades.

Seidle Memorial Hospital was a community hospital located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and part of the PinnacleHealth System, a primary chain of hospitals and clinics serving central Pennsylvania. The hospital provided outpatient services including ambulatory surgery, FirstPlace Health Care (urgent care center), women's health, physical and occupational therapy and diagnostic radiology. The facility also housed a 35-bed hospital-based skilled nursing unit.The hospital was built on the grounds of the former Irving Female College and the building complex incorporates its President's Mansion. The hospital closed in the mid 2000s and was purchased by fox subacute.

UPMC Harrisburg is a 409-bed urban hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) system. The hospital serves as the hub for the UPMC network, providing advanced care to the residents throughout southcentral Pennsylvania. UPMC Harrisburg features: • A state-of-the-art Labor and Delivery area with a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. • World-class cardiology care through UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute. • The region’s premier kidney transplant center. • Advanced pediatric care with UPMC Children’s Harrisburg in partnership with nationally recognized UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. • Leading-edge care in neurosciences, women’s care, comprehensive stroke care, and more. This campus is also home to the Alex Grass Medical Sciences Building, which includes: • Bone, Joint, and Spine Institutes • Laboratory services • Maternal Fetal Medicine • Select Medical rehab services UPMC Harrisburg has earned the Magnet® designation. The hospital is a teaching facility providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services. Specialties include women's health, cardiovascular care and orthopedic, stroke, and rehabilitative services. Physician residency programs exist on-site for family practice, internal medicine, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopaedic surgery, and general surgery.In November 2020 UPMC announced the opening of the new pediatric unit at UPMC Harrisburg. The new unit was opened in partnership with the UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and consist of 26-pediatric-beds. The unit treats infants, children, teens, and young adults age 0-21. The unit is named "UPMC Children’s Harrisburg" and features telemedicine connections to the main hospital in Pittsburgh.In May 2021 UPMC announced the renaming of UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg to UPMC Harrisburg, effective May 24.

Colonial Theatre, also known as the Lochiel Hotel, is a historic theater and commercial building located at Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The building consists of a five-story, brick and frame front section and a rear brick and frame auditorium. The original Colonial Theatre was built about 1836, as a hotel in the Greek Revival style and featured a four columned portico on the Market Street entrance. It was subsequently modified in form and use a number of times. In the 1870s, a mansard roof was added. The rear auditorium was added in 1912, when the building was converted from a hotel to hotel and movie / vaudeville theater. The lobby was remodeled in the 1930s / 1940s in an Art Deco style; the auditorium has Italian Renaissance style detailing. The theater and hotel closed in 1976, and the building used for offices and shops.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 9, 1982.

Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts is located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The center is the first complex of its kind in the United States to use science as an entry to the arts. Whitaker Center exhibits science, the performing arts, and a digital cinema under one roof. The center encompasses a total of 130,000 square feet (12,000 m2), including the three main components, plus STAGE TWO, Discovery Lab classrooms, multi-purpose rooms, the AMP Grand Lobby and the Kunkel Gallery.

Keystone Building is a historic commercial building located at Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1875 as the State Printing Office. It is a six-story office building, plus basement, 7 bays wide and 12 bays deep. It is faced in granite on the first floor, with brick above. It was remodeled in 1917, with the addition of a structural steel frame and 12-inch reinforced floors.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.This building is not to be confused with the Commonwealth Keystone Building, a nearby State Government office building completed in 2000.

SoMa, or South of Market Street, is a neighborhood in Downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania around South Third Street, bounded by Market to the north, 3rd to the west, Chestnut to the south, and 4th to the east. The name "SoMa" derives from the area being "South of Market Street", coined by Harristown Enterprises in 2007 to rebrand the South Third Street area for new development relating to international business and the arts. Eight restored historic buildings became 20 apartments branded as "SoMa on Third". The area is a popular housing area for students attending the nearby Harrisburg University. The area contains popular retail and bar & restaurant destinations and hosts frequent block parties in which they participate with other incoming vendors and entertainment.

Old Downtown Harrisburg Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 50 contributing buildings in the old central business district of Harrisburg and dating from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Notable buildings include the Daily and Weekly Telegraph Building (1873-1874), City Bank Building (c. 1872), F.W. Woolworth (1939), Rothert's Furniture Store (1906), Bowman's Department Store (1907, 1910), Pomeroy's Department Store (c. 1890, c. 1940), and Doutrich's Clothing Store. Located in the district and listed separately are the Colonial Theatre, Keystone Building, Kunkel Building, and the William Seel Building. The Telegraph Building was delisted after having been demolished. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, with a boundary increase in 1984.