{"nrhp_refnum":"78002388","name":"Hershey, Milton S., Mansion","other_names":["High Point","Hershey Country Club"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Mansion Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hershey","county":"Dauphin County","state":"PA","lat":40.29001491100007,"lon":-76.6441504455322,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-02-07","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1983-05-04","areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story limestone mansion at High Point in Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, built 1906-1908 as the residence of Milton S. Hershey, with a one-story 1940 locker room addition later used by the Hershey Country Club.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mansion is representative of the architecture of its time and is significant in landscape architecture for the gardens Milton S. Hershey planned with it. It also cites significance in industry and commerce through Hershey's founding of enterprises and the model town of Hershey, and in social and humanitarian areas through his founding of the Milton Hershey School for orphans.","narrative":"Built of limestone quarried near its site, the three-story High Point mansion in Hershey, Pennsylvania, was begun in 1906 and completed in 1908 as the home of chocolate manufacturer Milton S. Hershey and his wife. Architect C. Emlen Urban of Lancaster designed the house, and Oglesby Paul, a landscape designer from Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, planned the gardens. The interior includes a circular entrance foyer, a monumental stair lit by stained glass, and a leaded glass dome. The house was given to the Hershey Country Club in 1930, and Hershey kept a suite of rooms there until his death in 1945. It is listed for its architecture, its landscape gardens, and its ties to Hershey's industrial enterprises, the town of Hershey, and the Milton Hershey School for orphans. The mansion has been unoccupied since 1970.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"C. Emlen Urban (architect)","architectural_style":"Basically classical in its symmetrical massing, with Ionic detailing on the two-story entrance portico","criteria":[],"status_note":"Unoccupied since March 1970, when the new Hershey Country Club opened; the document also mentions later office use by Hershey Foods Corporation.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.148577-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002388.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002388/c5328a0e90-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002388/c5328a0e90-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:High_Point_Hershey_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:High_Point_Hershey_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995871","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_S._Hershey_Mansion","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6861438"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/dauphin-county/hershey-milton-s-mansion-78002388/"}