Historic Harrisburg Association

09/11/2026

🎷 What a night for jazz in Harrisburg!

We had a beautiful turnout at Historic Harrisburg Association this evening for the annual Jazz Walk, featuring the incredible sounds of The Wave Trio! 🎶

Thank you to everyone who stopped by and helped fill our space with great music, great company, and plenty of community spirit. We love seeing Harrisburg come alive for evenings like this! 💙

09/11/2026

09/08/2026

On this day in 1990, the famous Warner Hotel was demolished. Originally known as The Eagle Hotel when it opened in January of 1812, the establishment changed names and owners many times throughout its 178 years of operation. In 1842, the Warner Hotel even famously hosted Charles Dickens during his visit to the United States. The property sadly had to be torn down due to damage sustained in a 1989 flood.

08/27/2026

For today's Throwback Thursday, we're sharing some photos of Harrisburg's bygone streetcar system that was most prevalent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At first horse-drawn and later electric, these charming trolleys that once populated our downtown squares are now vestiges of the past.

08/24/2026

Come join the Historic Harrisburg Association tonight at 6pm for Representative Nate Davidson's talk on the "Ongoing Preservation of State Monuments." Free and open to the public.

08/20/2026

Happy Throwback Thursday! Pictured here is an illustrated series that ran in the Patriot-News in spring 1939. "Know Your City: Pictorial History of Harrisburg" was composed by Frederic "Fred" Ray, Jr., a Harrisburg native best known for his '40s Superman cover art, who brought his visually engaging interpretation of our capital city's past to the papers.

08/15/2026

Step into movie history this October at Historic Harrisburg's “A Night at the Movies!” at the West Shore Theater! Watch Girl, Interrupted, filmed at the historic Harrisburg State Hospital.

For more information about tickets to this event, please visit: https://historicharrisburg.org/events/

08/13/2026

Good morning, Harrisburg! For today's Throwback Thursday, we have some early photos of the entrance and bridge to Wildwood Park. The park was originally established as part of the “City Beautiful” movement in the early 1900s and even served as the Harrisburg Zoo in the mid-1900s before becoming the beautiful park and nature sanctuary we know it as today.

08/12/2026

Join the Historic Harrisburg Association for an unforgettable evening of baseball, TONIGHT, for a doubleheader game! Gates open at 4 p.m.; the game starts at 5:00 p.m. as the Harrisburg Senators take on the Richmond Flying Squirrels at FNB Field.

If you purchase through the following link, HHA will get some of the proceeds!
https://www.gofevo.com/event/Historicharrisburg2

We look forward to seeing everyone tonight!