Adam Orris House is a historic home located at Mechanicsburg in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1887, and is a three-story, rectangular brick building in the

Second Empire Second Empire may refer to: * Second British Empire, used by some historians to describe the British Empire after 1783 * Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396) * Second French Empire (1852–1870) ** Second Empire architecture, an architectural styl ...

style. It features a tin mansard roof, projecting three-story bay, corner tower, and full-width front porch. Also on the property is a contributing

carriage house A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack. In Great Britain the farm building was called a cart shed. These typically were open ...

, also built about 1887. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the

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in 1987.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Orris, Adam, House Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Second Empire architecture in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1887 Houses in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania