William Penn Memorial Museum and State Achives Building Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places Data
William Penn Memorial Museum and State Achives Building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 14000467
- Date Listed
- August 1, 2014
- Name
- Penn, William, Memorial Museum and State Archives Building
- Other Names
- The State Museum of Pennsylvania; The Pensylvania State Archives
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 300 North St.
- City/Town
- Harrisburg
- County
- Dauphin
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- state
- Areas of Sig.
- ARCHITECTURE
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
Designed by the Harrisburg architecture firm of Lawrie and Green, and completed in 1964, the William Penn Memorial Museum and State Archives Building was designed to commemorate Pennsylvania's founder and accommodate the state's museum exhibits and archival records. The building is significant under Criterion C in the area of Architecture as a characteristic example of the Modern Movement applied to a public building. Its materials and design employed abstract geometrical forms, rather than more overt ornamentation, in the prototypical mid-20th Century Modern style.
