page_title: Archibald McAllister House
hierarchical_section_title: Archibald McAllister House
caption_attribution_description: English: Archibald McAllister House, listed on the NRHP on June 7, 1976, located in Ft. Hunter County Park, nominally 5300 North Front Street, north of Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
context_page_description: Archibald McAllister House, now officially known as Fort Hunter Mansion, is a historic home located on the Susquehanna River approximately 6 miles north of downtown Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It consists of a 2-story, 2-room stone "cabin' built in 1787, to which was added in 1814 a 2 1/2-story, five-bay wide stone dwelling in the Federal style. The mansion has an overall "T"-floorplan, with the 2 1/2 story 1814 addition in front and the original 1787 cabin and an attached, woodframe summer kitchen built in the mid- to late-19th century to the rear. The mansion features a front portico with Tuscan order columns above which is a Palladian window on the second floor. The entry door has a semi-circular fanlight and sidelights with thin wooden ribbing.
  The house is open as a 19th-century historic house museum and 40 acre park.
  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is located in the Fort Hunter Historic District.
context_section_description: Archibald McAllister House, now officially known as Fort Hunter Mansion, is a historic home located on the Susquehanna River approximately 6 miles north of downtown Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  It consists of a 2-story, 2-room stone "cabin' built in 1787, to which was added in 1814 a 2 1/2-story, five-bay wide stone dwelling in the Federal style.  The mansion has an overall "T"-floorplan, with the 2 1/2 story 1814 addition in front and the original 1787 cabin and an attached, woodframe summer kitchen built in the mid- to late-19th century to the rear.  The mansion features a front portico with Tuscan order columns above which is a Palladian window on the second floor.  The entry door has a semi-circular fanlight and sidelights with thin wooden ribbing.
  The house is open as a 19th-century historic house museum and 40 acre park.
  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.  It is located in the Fort Hunter Historic District.
caption: Archibald McAllister House, August 2013
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