File:VIEW SOUTH, FRONT ELEVATION - Telegram Building, 227 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA HABS PA,22-HARBU,24-3.tif

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VIEW SOUTH, FRONT ELEVATION - Telegram Building, 227 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA
Title
VIEW SOUTH, FRONT ELEVATION - Telegram Building, 227 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA
Description
Smith, John C; Warner, James H; Place, James M; Stark Brothers; Atlantic Refining Company; Dauphin County Telephone Company; Independent Telephone Association; Pennsylvania State Telephone and Traffic Association; Western Union Telegraph Office; Bowie, John R, project manager; Bounds, A Pierce, photographer; Richman, Irwin, historian
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Dauphin County; Harrisburg
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS PA,22-HARBU,24-3
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Written data includes photocopies of floor plans, photographs, and advertisements.
  • Significance: The building's significance is three-fold; architecturally, industrial, and technological. The most significant feature is the north facade in the Queen Anne Revival style. Probably constructed over a cast iron frame, the facade of wood, brick, iron, and glass (clear, striated, and colored) retains almost absolute integrity above street level. Existing illustrations document the street level facade very well. The remaining elevations are strictly utilitarian brick walls pierced with windows and doors on two side (west and south). The east wall is a blank party wall. Very up-to-date when it was first constructed, the building was probably influenced by the Philadelphia Inquirer building on Market Street in Philadelphia. The Telegram Building was built with both electrical and gas lighting, steam heat, hot and cold running water, toilet facilities, and an Otis elevator. Many of these original features remain. Built to house a thriving Sunday newspaper, The Telegram, the structure subsequently housed various telephone and telegraph companies and served as a regional headquarters for the Atlantic Refining Company. Remaining in the building is the original elevator mechanism designed to be steam driven which was converted to electricity sometime after 1902.
  • Survey number: HABS PA-5370
  • Building/structure dates: 1887- 1888 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1965 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1902 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa1792.photos.133494p
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