Harrisburg Technical High School

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Harrisburg Technical High School
Harrisburg Technical High School, June 2023
Harrisburg Technical High School is located in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg Technical High School
Location in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg Technical High School is located in the United States
Harrisburg Technical High School
Location in United States
Location423 Walnut St., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°15′48″N 76°52′49″W / 40.2634°N 76.8803°W / 40.2634; -76.8803
Area1.1 acres (0.45 ha)
Built1905, 1910
ArchitectCharles Lloyd
Architectural styleCollegiate Gothic
NRHP reference No.82001533[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 7, 1982

Harrisburg Technical High School, also known as Old City Hall, is a historic building and former

high school located in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Though previously used as a high school, vocational school, and municipal building, it is now converted for apartments. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

History

As Harrisburg's manufacturing and industry was prosperous in the turn of the 20th century, the Harrisburg Board of School Directors took a look at "manual training programs" in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. in 1904. The next year, Superintendent Lemuel O. Foose decided to implement a program by building a rear expansion to what was then The Harrisburg Lancasterian School (renamed DeWitt School) built in 1836, on the site of the current day Technical High School. The 1905 DeWitt School Building Shop expansion was a two-story, brick and iron frame structure, which was designed to hold heavy machinery for the curriculum. As this program became quickly successful, the DeWitt School's front structure became obsolete. The front portion was razed and rebuilt in 1910, designed by prominent Harrisburg architect Charles Howard Lloyd and constructed as a four-story, steel frame and concrete

City Hall in 1929.[3] In the 1980s, after the relocation of City Hall, the building began yet another new purpose as apartment housing.[4]

Football

In the 1918 and 1919 football seasons, Paul G. Smith coached the Tech Maroons to 21 undefeated wins with star player Carl Beck. The championship was won again in 1925 with Johnny Kitzmiller scoring 21 points.[5]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Department of the Interior. National Park Service. (3/2/1934 - ) (19 August 1981). Pennsylvania SP Harrisburg Technical High School. File Unit: National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records: Pennsylvania, 1964 - 2013.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes James A. Stuart III (November 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Harrisburg Technical High School" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-12.
  4. ^ "Old City Hall apartments retain Victorian style after a century of transformations: Cool Spaces". Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  5. OCLC 761221337
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