Image: Irvis Office Building, Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex, Harrisburg, PA
Description: Built in 1921, this Classical Revival-style building was designed by Arnold W. Brunner to house additional office space for the Pennsylvania state government, and was the first structure completed in the larger Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex to the rear of the Pennsylvania State Capitol. The building features a granite exterior, rectangular footprint with seven floors over a raised basement, one-over-one double-hung windows, with transoms at the second floor, three-story ionic porticoes on the fourth, fifth, and sixth floors of the side facades and in the central bays of the north and south facades, triple entrance doors on the north and south facades, with the north facade doors being located at the elevated level of the plaza that wraps the building to the north and west, arched door openings on the west and north facades, with arched window openings on the second floor on the east and south facades with balconies featuring stone balustrades and decorative brackets, cartouches above the arched openings, and rectangular door openings on the first floor on the south and east facades, pilasters at the end bays of the north and south facades, a cornice with dentils at the top of the building below a parapet that partially obscures the seventh floor and the building’s low-slope metal hipped roof above. 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: Irvis Office Building, Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex, Harrisburg, PA
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