Harrisburg’s landmark Jackson House collapses, faces demolition
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
Brick by brick, what remains of the Jackson House is being dismantled after a large portion of the historic rooming house that catered to jazz greats like Ella Fitzgerald collapsed Thursday.
Construction workers were in the process of buttressing the wall containing a 2017 mural in preparation for a larger project to preserve the building, or at least its exterior.
“The second they put pressure on it, the center of the wall started to buckle,” said Matthew Long, the latest in a long line of owners whose restoration plans went unfulfilled.