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Image: Finance Building, Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex, Harrisburg, PA - 52441205516

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Description: Built in 1940, this Classical Revival-style building was designed by William Gehron and Sydney Ross to house the Financial offices of the Pennsylvania state government, and mirrors the Forum Building across Soldier’s Grove, a quad that stands on the block to the east of the Pennsylvania State Capitol. The building features a facade clad in granite with five floors above a partially raised basement, a partially rusticated base, square doric pilasters dividing the bays on either side of a central three-story recessed portico on the second, third, and fourth floors, with extruded columns and pilasters between each window bay on the exterior of the second, third, and fourth floors, an entrance with three doors on the north facade with decorative bronze doors, an architrave running around the top of the fourth floor with the names of famous and notable Pennsylvanians engraved on it, a cornice with dentils, a parapet that partially obscures the fifth floor, a low-slope metal hipped roof, and two stubby rear wings framing a courtyard where the rear entrance to the building mirrors the front entrance, but with an elevated terrace outside the doors with staircases to the side, which features a large wall with a relief carved onto the central portion, made of massive stone blocks, and an additional rear entrance in the eastern rear wing. The building is part of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The State Capitol Complex was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 2006, and saw a boundary increase in 2013 to include some previously omitted historic structures.
Title: Finance Building, Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex, Harrisburg, PA - 52441205516
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