{"nrhp_refnum":"90000699","name":"Donaldson, William, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2005 N. Third St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harrisburg","county":"Dauphin County","state":"PA","lat":40.278041581000025,"lon":-76.89460175799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-04-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 3½ story Queen Anne Revival residence at 2005 North Third Street in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, built in 1888 for William Donaldson. It stands within a small enclave of Victorian mansions.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is the finest existing Queen Anne Revival mansion in Harrisburg, with irregular plan and massing, varied surface textures, multiple intersecting roofs, bay windows, a turret, and porches and balconies. It states that the house is especially well preserved on the exterior and retains outstanding interior woodwork despite a 1985 fire and 1925 and 1988 conversions to apartments.","narrative":"Built in 1888 for William Donaldson, this 3½ story house at 2005 North Third Street in Harrisburg is a Queen Anne Revival residence with an irregular plan, a rounded turret, bay windows, and porches and balconies. Its walls combine brick on the first story with wood shingles above, along with stucco and stone foundations, and its roofs are gabled, gambrel, and hipped. Donaldson lived in the house until his death in 1925, when it was sold and converted to apartments; a tunnel was built that year linking it to the neighboring Sheffield Apartments. The house sits in a small group of freestanding Queen Anne mansions built between 1885 and 1905. Its exterior is regarded as very well preserved, and the interior retains wood panelling in the main entrance and the second-story turret room. A 1985 fire damaged parts of the north side, which were repaired with matching materials. The house is considered the finest Queen Anne mansion in the city.","period_of_significance":"1888","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Converted to six apartments in 1988 after earlier conversion in 1925; damaged by a 1985 fire and repaired in kind.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.586508-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90000699.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000699/ac94d4517c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000699/ac94d4517c-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Penndyl","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Donaldson_Mansion_2024.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Penndyl</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:William_Donaldson_Mansion_2024.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995775","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Donaldson_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16830000"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/dauphin-county/donaldson-william-house-90000699/"}