Fifty contributing buildings make up the Old Downtown Harrisburg Commercial Historic District in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and enlarged by a boundary increase in 1984. This is the old central business district: fifty contributing buildings that map the city's late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century rise. As you look along the street, you can imagine the dates the masonry tells: the Daily and Weekly Telegraph Building of 1873–1874 and the City Bank Building, circa 1872; Pomeroy's Department Store, with phases around c.1890 and c.1940; Bowman's Department Store of 1907 and 1910; Rothert's Furniture Store from 1906; and the 1939 F. W. Woolworth.
Doutrich's Clothing Store is another name on that roll. Remember that several landmarks here are listed separately for their significance: the Colonial Theatre, the Keystone Building, the Kunkel Building, and the William Seel Building. One building named in older accounts, the Telegraph Building, was later delisted after having been demolished.
Down the block, the names Pomeroy's, Bowman's, Rothert's and Woolworth still spell out the city's decades in masonry.