Mount Pleasant Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Along the lower slope of Allison Hill, the Martin Luther King Boulevard blocks between Cameron Street and Thirteenth Street form a commercial strip of two- and three-story brick and clapboard buildings, most built between about 1880 and 1920. Market Street was the main road from the hill to downtown Harrisburg, and a horsecar line turned south at Thirteenth Street in 1889, making the corner a primary shopping zone. The area includes a 1922 limestone-clad bank with a pilastered facade, a c.1910 five-and-ten-cent store, and the Hill Cafe hotel. Sylvan Heights, built c.1860 for Colonel John Brandt, is a stuccoed Greek Revival mansion that is one of the few surviving great houses of the heights. Its later uses as a convent, seminary and orphanage are part of its documented history. Many storefronts have been altered, but the overall scale and materials remain largely intact.