Penn State Harrisburg Eastgate Center
1010 North Seventh Street
Harrisburg, PA 17102-1410
(717) 948-6700
The Penn State Harrisburg Eastgate Center serves as the University’s presence in downtown Harrisburg. Key functions at this location include lunchtime workshops, day and evening credit offerings, and professional development workshops and seminars. The facility also has a 15-station computer lab for training and student support and classrooms with PicTel (videoconferencing) capabilities. Continuing Education operates the Eastgate Center, offering convenient programs for downtown and surrounding businesses. State agencies also occupy space in the building.
Parking
Weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Metered parking is available in front of the building and the Capital Associates Garage at nearby 7th and Forster streets. The parking spaces around and under the Eastgate Center are not available.
Weekdays after 5 p.m., weekends, and holidays
Metered spaces in front of the building are free and spaces around and under the building are available with a properly displayed Penn State Vehicle Registration permit. For Vehicle Registration information, phone Penn State Harrisburg Police Services at 948-6006.
Directions
U.S. Route 15 North (from Washington, D.C.) or U.S. Route 11 North (from Carlisle):
At the junctions of Routes 11 and 15, follow signs for Pennsylvania Route 581 East to Interstate 83 North and Harrisburg. Route 581 becomes Interstate 83 North. Proceed on Interstate 83 North following the directions as described below for Interstate 83 North (from York).
PA Turnpike West (from Philadelphia):
At Harrisburg East exit take Interstate 283 North to Interstate 83 South and follow the directions below for Interstate 83 South.
PA Turnpike East (from Pittsburgh):
At Harrisburg West exit take Interstate 83 North and follow the directions below for Interstate 83 North.
Interstate 83 North (from York) or South (from Airport):
Take Second Street exit for Harrisburg and Capital Complex. Proceed on Second Street approximately two miles; turn right onto Forster Street. Turn left at the fourth traffic signal onto Seventh Street. Continue on Seventh Street to the first traffic signal, turn left into the Eastgate Center.
Interstate 81 North (from Carlisle) or South (from Hazleton):
Take Cameron Street (U.S. Route 22 South) exit past the Farm Show complex. Stay on Cameron Street, which changes from U.S. Route 22 to Pa. Route 230. Turn right at the fourth traffic light onto Herr Street. Travel under the railroad bridge to Seventh Street. Proceed straight into the Eastgate Center.
PA Route 230 West (from Middletown):
Take Pa. Rte. 230 West (Cameron Street) into Harrisburg past Paxton Street and Market Street. Turn left onto Herr Street. Travel under the railroad bridge to Seventh Street. Proceed straight into the Eastgate Center.
College News
Web site profiles American emigration to Liberia
Building on years of research and two published books, a Penn State Harrisburg faculty member has created a web site dedicated to profiling the historic African American emigration to Liberia.
Associate Professor of Communications and Humanities C. Patrick Burrowes unveiled his interactive web site entitled “Like a Motherless Child: African American Emigrants to Liberia, 1820-1904” as part of a presentation to faculty, staff, and students recently in the Gallery Lounge. Taken from the title of the well-known spiritual, “Like a motherless child expresses the overriding feeling of dispossession and alienation felt by the emigrants,” Burrowes says. Many of them former slaves, “they had no mother and they had no homeland,” he adds.
Heard on campus – Franklin and the Junto
Penn State Harrisburg faculty member and Benjamin Franklin scholar George Boudreau terms his recent discovery of a long-lost poem written in 1732 as “one of the greatest finds of my career.”
An associate professor of humanities and history, Boudreau’s research interests focus on Franklin and his philosophical organization called the Junto and the role it played in the cultural transformation of Philadelphia in the 1700s. Boudreau recently related his research findings during a Gallery Lounge presentation hosted by the offices of Academic Affairs and Research and Graduate Studies.