{"nrhp_refnum":"04001225","name":"Harrisburg Polyclinic Hospital","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2601 N. Third St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harrisburg","county":"Dauphin County","state":"PA","lat":40.28770847700008,"lon":-76.89840086099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former hospital complex on a five and one-half acre bluff site between N. Third and N. Fourth Streets in uptown Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, made up of the Main Hospital Building, the Kline Building and the Education Building (originally the Nurses' Residence and School). The main building was erected in 1925-26 from designs by the Harrisburg firm Kast and Kelker.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is significant as Harrisburg's second charitable general hospital, founded to serve the expanding 20th-century city and outlying communities, and as the oldest 20th-century charitable general hospital in the metropolitan area. It also argues the campus is architecturally unified, with later additions sympathetic to the original design, and that it reflects a shift from 19th-century urban hospitals to planned campus settings.","narrative":"Built on a bluff above uptown Harrisburg, the Harrisburg Polyclinic Hospital is a brick campus of three linked buildings. The central Main Hospital Building was erected in 1925-26 to designs by the Harrisburg firm Kast and Kelker in a Federal Revival style, with a concrete-trimmed central pavilion and Y-shaped wings added in 1949-52 by Lawrie and Green. The Kline Building, a four-story Moderne structure, was completed in 1954-55 by Starr and Long as a children's hospital and eye clinic. The Education Building grew from a Nurses' Residence finished in 1926 in neo-Georgian style. The hospital was chartered in 1909 by local doctors and businessmen to provide charitable care through a dispensary system, and it is regarded as the oldest 20th-century charitable general hospital in the Harrisburg area. Its additions were designed to match the original, and the buildings are connected by a shared lower level.","period_of_significance":"1925-1954","architect_builder":"Kast & Kelker; Lawrie & Green; Starr & Long","architectural_style":"Federal Revival; Georgian Revival; Moderne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.491748-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/04001225.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001225/7dbf414f0f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001225/7dbf414f0f-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harrisburg_PA_Polyclinic.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harrisburg_PA_Polyclinic.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995813","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyclinic_Medical_Center","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7226234"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/dauphin-county/harrisburg-polyclinic-hospital-04001225/"}