{"nrhp_refnum":"95000517","name":"Eichelberger High School","other_names":["Eichelberg Academy"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"195 Stock St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hanover","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":39.80588909000005,"lon":-76.98611945899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-04-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large two-story institutional school building with a high basement, sited on a small hill several blocks north of the central square in Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania. It was constructed in 1896 and substantially altered and expanded in 1931-32.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is locally significant for its role in providing education, first privately and then publicly, to Hanover Borough children. It is also presented as an outstanding example of Georgian Revival institutional architecture in the Hanover area, with symmetrical massing, classical porticoes, and Flemish bond brickwork.","narrative":"Built in 1896 as Eichelberg Academy, a private school funded by railroad businessman Abdiel Wirt Eichelberger, this brick building in Hanover was donated to the public schools around 1900 for a $1 sale price on condition it remain used for public education. It served as the borough high school, then as a grammar school, and was remodeled in 1931-32 by Harrisburg architects Hasness & Albright, who kept the Georgian Revival style while enlarging it with flanking wings, hyphens and a central pavilion. The design includes a six-column Ionic portico on the south facade, a wooden cupola, Palladian windows, and limestone detailing. It is regarded as the largest and most elaborate Georgian Revival school in the Hanover area. The building served as a high school until 1964 and as a junior high until 1991, when it was abandoned.","period_of_significance":"1896-1944","architect_builder":"Hasness & Albright (Expansion); Dempwolf, Reinhardt","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Abandoned by the school board in 1991 after being replaced by a new facility; the property was purchased in 1993 and plans for professional office use were under review for tax certification.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.213968-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/95000517.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000517/87aab2df21-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000517/87aab2df21-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eichelberger_HS_Hanover,_PA_2.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:Eichelberger_HS_Hanover,_PA_2.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"96001552","name":"Hanover Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/hanover-historic-district-96001552/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995746","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichelberger_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5348716"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/eichelberger-high-school-95000517/"}