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Guide Book to the Tiled Pavement in the Capitol of Pennsylvania. Doylestown: B. McGinty; reprint, Harrisburg, PA: Capitol Preservation Committee, 1997. ISBN 0964304848. Mercer's own guide and description of the decorative wall and floor tiles and their story. Bucks County Historical Society (1972).
Ultimately, the design chosen by the committee was created by Harrisburg resident E. Hudson Worrall, [6] [7] [8] a civil engineer associated with the United States Army Corps of Engineers who was a son of Colonel James Worrall, the civil engineer serving as the Pennsylvania State Fish Commissioner under Governor John F. Hartranft.
The State Museum of Pennsylvania is a non-profit history museum at 300 North Street in downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. It is run by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to preserve and interpret the Commonwealth's history and culture. [1] It is a part of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex.
Harrisburg's site along the Susquehanna River is thought to have been inhabited by Native Americans as early as 3000 BC. Known to the Native Americans as "Peixtin", or "Paxtang", the area was an important resting place and crossroads for Native American traders with trails leading from the Delaware to the Ohio rivers and from the Potomac to the Upper Susquehanna intersecting there.
The Pennsylvania Manual (PDF). Vol. 117. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Department of General Services. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 28, 2009. Trostle, Sharon, ed. (2007). The Pennsylvania Manual (PDF). Vol. 118. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Department of General Services. ISBN 978-0-8182-0318-3. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 5 ...
Americans began producing salt-glazed stoneware circa 1720 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Yorktown, Virginia. By the 1770s, the art of salt-glazed stoneware production had spread to many centers throughout the United States, most notably Manhattan, New York. There the Crolius and Remmey families, two of the most important families in the ...
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On January 16, 2015, the Susquehanna Art Museum relocated to the transformed former Keystone Trust Building, located at 1401 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102. The museum was once located in the heart of Harrisburg's central business district , where it occupied several floors of the Kunkel Building , also known as the Feller Building ...