Built 1932-1933 Area 1 ha | NRHP Reference # 80003483 Added to NRHP 15 October 1980 | |
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Location 2 Chocolate Ave., Hershey, Pennsylvania Architectural style Mission Revival architecture Similar Hershey Country Club, Hershey Theatre, The Hotel Hershey, Hersheypark, Hershey's Chocolate World | ||
Hershey Community Center Building is a historic building located at Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by noted architect Paul Philippe Cret (1876-1945), under a general plan by Milton S. Hershey (1857-1945), and built in 1932-1933. Plans for a community theater and center were originally drawn-up by C. Emlen Urban in 1915. It is a five story building, encompassing 190,699 square feet. It is shaped like a distended "E," with an open court in the front center and sun porches on three sides. The building is faced in Indiana limestone. The building houses a large theater, the Hershey Theatre (51,525 square feet) and small theater (5,535 square feet), along with a variety of recreational facilities including a gymnasium, swimming pool, game rooms, locker rooms, and showers. The building also houses a library (6,640 square feet) and dormitories (15,970 square feet).
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.