{"id":304,"date":"2007-12-04T11:55:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T16:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/?page_id=304"},"modified":"2007-12-04T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T16:55:22","slug":"a-walk-down-high-street","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/a-walk-down-high-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical High Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mapping Carlisle<\/a> | Carlisle Mapped on Flickr<\/a> |
\nHistorical Hanover Street<\/a><\/p>\n

High Street serves as the central route between Dickinson College and the downtown. As a result, it has become the focus of the college’s High “I” Project<\/a> for redevelopment. Currently, the street is home to a wide variety of small businesses and social services, including the Clothes Vine, Appalachian Foods, Casa Mani, the Whistlestop Bookshop<\/a>, Back Door Cafe<\/a>, Amy’s Thai, and George’s Subs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

High Street used to be called Main Street … Here’s a postcard of Carlisle’s Main Street, circa 1907:
\n\"Main<\/a><\/p>\n

Main Street, 1907. Source: Postcard image circulated on Ebay.<\/p>\n

\"East<\/a><\/p>\n

Main Street, 1912. Source: Postcard image circulated on Ebay.<\/p>\n

\"Train<\/a><\/p>\n

Postcard of the train that used to travel down High Street. Source: Postcard image circulated on Ebay.<\/p>\n

\"High<\/a><\/p>\n

High Street, no date. The removal of the tracks and the make of the cars suggest this image is from the 1930s or 1940s. Source: Postcard image circulated on Ebay.
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

\"First<\/a><\/p>\n

First Lutheran Church, 1905. Source: Postcard image circulated on Ebay.<\/p>\n

Walking down West High Street, one of the more impressive neoclassical buildings is the former Cumberland Valley Savings and Loan building, depicted here in 1972:
\n\"Cumberland<\/a><\/p>\n

Cumberland County Savings, c. 1972. Source: This image is from a promotional publication on Carlisle originally published in 1972. Citation: The Greater Carlisle Area: The Heart of Cumberland County (Carlisle, PA: The Chamber of Commerce, 1972).<\/p>\n

Today, 16 West High Street is Carlisle’s Human Services Building<\/a>. The building is now home to a variety of social agencies, including the Offices for Children and Youth, Aging, Community Services, Mental Health\/Mental Retardation, and the Drug and Alcohol Commission.
\n\"16<\/a><\/p>\n

16 West High Street today. Source: http:\/\/www.ccpa.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Heading West, you will encounter another remarkable building at 102 West High Street. Here you can see it in one of its earliest incarnations.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

The Mansion House<\/strong>, circa 1916. Source: Postcard image circulated on Ebay.<\/p>\n

The Mansion House later became the Wilson Hotel,<\/strong> and is now the home of Safe Harbour, a homeless shelter and counseling center.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/a><\/a> <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>\"James<\/a><\/p>\n

James Wilson hotel, no date. Source: Image circulated on Ebay.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

The YMCA<\/strong> on High Street, no date. This building is now Dickinson College student housing (25-27 High Street.) Source: Postcard image circulated on Ebay.<\/p>\n

25 High Street also was once home to the AAA Travel Agency, as you can see here:
\n\"AAA,<\/a>
\nFormerly, the AAA<\/strong> inside 25 West High Street. This image is from a promotional publication on Carlisle originally published in 1972. Citation: The Greater Carlisle Area: The Heart of Cumberland County (Carlisle, PA: The Chamber of Commerce, 1972).<\/p>\n

Across the street was Stearns and Williams Jewelers, at 30 West High Street.<\/p>\n

\"Stearns<\/a><\/p>\n

Here you can see the interior and exterior of the Bellaire<\/strong> restaurant, formerly located on High Street (the stairway next door to where Amy’s Thai<\/strong> is now).<\/p>\n

\"Belleaire<\/a>\"bellaire2.jpg\"<\/a>
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We will continue to add to our collection. Please feel free to comment, or visit our contact page to share photographs. Thank you for your visit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mapping Carlisle | Carlisle Mapped on Flickr | Historical Hanover Street High Street serves as the central route between Dickinson College and the downtown. As a result, it has become the focus of the college’s High “I” Project for redevelopment. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-304","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/carlislehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}