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Includes the Pennsylvania State Capitol, North and South Office Buildings, Finance Building, Forum Building, State Street Bridge and Ryan Legislative Office Building. Originally listed with only the capitol, expanded in 2013 to encompass surrounding buildings. 75: Gifford Pinchot House: Gifford Pinchot House
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Pennsylvania on the National Register of Historic Places.These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Paxton Municipal Building, Harrisburg, 1930s Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center , Harrisburg , 1931 Roxy Theatre (former Dreamland Theatre), Lock Haven , 1924 and 1931
Sites on the list are generally from the First Period of American architecture or earlier. All listed sites either date from prior to 1776, or are the oldest building in their county or large city, or are the oldest of their type (for example: churches, schools, firehouses, or government buildings).
Grey Towers National Historic Site, also known as Gifford Pinchot House or The Pinchot Institute, is located just off US 6 west of Milford, Pennsylvania, in Milford Township. It is the ancestral summer home of Gifford Pinchot, first chief of the newly developed United States Forest Service (USFS) and twice elected governor of Pennsylvania.
May 11, 1976 (North Philadelphia Eastern banks of the Schuylkill River: Fairmount Park: First municipal waterworks in the United States. Designed in 1812 by Frederick Graff and built between 1819 and 1822, it operated until 1909.
[430] [431] Architectural Record named Fallingwater "the world's most significant building of the 20th century", [278] and Smithsonian listed the house among its "Life List of 28 Places to See Before You Die" in 2008. [432] [433] The New York Times said that architects considered Fallingwater "one of Wright's supreme creations". [8]
Georgian Revival architecture in Pennsylvania (16 P) Gothic Revival architecture in Pennsylvania (2 C, 177 P) Greek Revival architecture in Pennsylvania (2 C, 76 P)