{"nrhp_refnum":"76001633","name":"McAllister, Archibald, House","other_names":["Fort Hunter Mansion","See Also:Fort Hunter Historic District"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5300 N. Front St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harrisburg","county":"Dauphin County","state":"PA","lat":40.34282829500006,"lon":-76.91007092199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-06-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Fort Hunter Mansion, also called the Archibald McAllister House, is a large two-and-a-half-story Georgian manorial residence on the west side of U.S. Route 22, about six miles north of Harrisburg on the Susquehanna River. It has a T-shaped plan with a main block built around 1814 and two later additions to the north.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a superb example of a symmetrical Georgian manorial residence adapted to local masonry and woodworking skills in Dauphin County. Its setting within a 65-acre historical site, including 18th-century mills and Fort Hunter from the Indian Wars, is described as a significant archaeological site. It is also associated with Archibald McAllister, a colonel in the Revolutionary War who built the original section.","narrative":"Set about six miles north of Harrisburg on a bank of the Susquehanna River, the Fort Hunter Mansion is a two-and-a-half-story Georgian residence built of coursed rubble stone around 1814 for Archibald McAllister, an American colonel in the Revolutionary War. Its symmetrical five-bay facade has a central entrance with a semicircular fanlight, a raised wooden portico, and a Palladian window above. The main block is a large manorial house with a hip roof and dormers, arranged with a central hall and symmetrical rooms on each side. Two additions were made to the north: a mid-19th-century stone wing with double-storied porches on its east and west sides, and a later 19th-century frame wing. The house stands on land once occupied by 18th-century mills, the home of Benjamin Chambers, and the site of Fort Hunter during the Indian Wars. McAllister acquired the land in 1787 and operated mills and barns on the tract. In 1830 the property passed to George Washington McAllister, who held it until 1870. The house is significant as an example of Georgian residential design adapted to local craft traditions and rural mill-site life.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1814","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian - Federal; later Italianate elements","criteria":[],"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 17:11:29.518318-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/76001633.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001633/59ea113e03-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001633/59ea113e03-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McAllister_Mansion_Ft_Hunter_PA.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:McAllister_Mansion_Ft_Hunter_PA.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79002216","name":"Fort Hunter Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/fort-hunter-historic-district-79002216/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995817","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_McAllister_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4786429"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/dauphin-county/mcallister-archibald-house-76001633/"}