Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
In Gettysburg the biggest owners are a college, a seminary, the school district and the Borough: half the borough's parcel ground is tax-exempt, and Gettysburg College alone holds nearly a quarter of it.
9 buildings · 9 with an owner established · 13 sources · 6 tier A · 3 tier B · prepared 2026-11-01
Can you find out who owns it?
Pennsylvania records title by deed at the county Recorder of Deeds; Gettysburg's deeds are recorded in Adams County, where a 1% state and 1% local realty transfer tax is paid on the stated price. The County's tax-parcel layer, republished on Penn State's PASDA with 'Use_Constraints: None', names the owner of every parcel with its address, deeded acres and last sale date, free and without registration. It carries no assessed values or prices. The deed index and images sit behind an account on the County's land-records site, and the Recorder says 'Our office does not provide search services'.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchNo search service ('Our office does not provide search services'); copies $0.25 a page and $2.00 to certify at the Recorder of Deeds (fee bill effective 1 Dec 2025); online deed search needs a land-records account
Bulk ownership dataAdams County Parcels (Oct 2026) on PASDA: 46,908 parcels with owner (SHORT_NAME), site address, deeded acres, property type and last sale date; shapefile download and ArcGIS REST query, 'Use_Constraints: None'
Sale pricesNo transaction data published
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The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gettysburg College, main campus 300 N Washington St |
Institutional | Gettysburg College Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026, PASDA), district 'GETTYSBURG BORO': parcel 16004-0113 in the name 'GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ETAL', exempt (CX), 202.7 deeded acres, of which about 185.7 acres of polygon lie in the borough; last sale date 04/03/2014. The College holds 31 more parcels in its own name (houses, offices and commercial lots along Carlisle St, N Washington St, W Stevens St and Railroad St) and one in 'GETTYSBURG COLLEGE TITLE HOLDING CO' (405 Carlisle St). Together about 197.5 acres, nearly a quarter of the borough's parcel area. The layer carries no assessed value. |
Institution | —A |
| Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg (Seminary Ridge) 61 Seminary Ridge |
Institutional | Lutheran Theological Seminary Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026): parcel 16006-0030, 61 Seminary Ridge, owner 'LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY', exempt, 38.22 deeded acres (about 36.1 in the borough), last sale date 05/05/2020. The seminary merged into United Lutheran Seminary in 2017. A 4 May 2018 ULS release: 'Under the terms of the $3.5 million purchase agreement, the Trust will acquire an 11-acre portion' straddling Seminary Ridge Road 'and a conservation easement on 7 acres along Chambersburg Pike'. In Aug 2025 the Adams County Library System bought 'a subdivided plot' of the campus; the layer shows it at 448 Springs Ave, 4.93 acres, 08/05/2025, no price. |
Institution | —B |
| Gettysburg Hospital 147 Gettys St |
Institutional | The Gettysburg Hospital Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026, PASDA), district 'GETTYSBURG BORO': parcel 16013-0001, owner 'GETTYSBURG HOSPITAL, THE', exempt (CX), 14.98 acres, last sale date 04/29/1986. The same name holds 423 S Washington St (exempt, 0.58 acres, 2014) and 424 S Washington St (0.18 acres); 'WELLSPAN PROPERTIES INC' holds a 1.88-acre unassigned lot (2002) - 17.6 acres in all. The hospital operates as WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital; that brand link is not on the roll. |
Institution | —A |
| Adams County Courthouse 117 Baltimore St |
Civic | County of Adams Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026, PASDA), district 'GETTYSBURG BORO': parcel 16010-0115, owner 'COUNTY OF ADAMS', exempt (CX), 0.55 acres; the sale date is the placeholder 07/04/1776, meaning no recorded conveyance on the layer. The County holds four more exempt parcels in the borough (34 E Middle St; 19 and 43 W High St and a W High St lot, all 12/01/2011) - 5 parcels, about 2.2 acres. |
Government | —A |
| Gettysburg Hotel 1 Lincoln Square |
Hotel | Gettysburg College (through Gettysburg Hotel Investors LP) The College's own visitor and Family Weekend pages: 'Owned by Gettysburg College, the Hotel Gettysburg is located in the heart of historic downtown Gettysburg' (the hotel was renamed Hotel Gettysburg). The Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026) carries the hotel itself, 1 Lincoln Sq (parcel 16007-0218, 0.42 acres, last sale 08/22/1989), in the name 'GETTYSBURG HOTEL INVESTORS', and 10 York St (0.51 acres, 10/12/2000) in 'GETTYSBURG HOTEL INVESTORS LP'. That the partnership is the College's vehicle rests on the College's statement, not on the roll. |
Institution | —B |
| David Wills House 8 Lincoln Square |
Civic | United States of America Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026, PASDA), district 'GETTYSBURG BORO': parcel 16007-0299, owner 'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA', exempt (CX), 0.05 acres, last sale date 03/23/2004 - the house where Lincoln stayed the night before the Gettysburg Address, now part of the national park. No price on the layer. |
Government | —A |
| Lincoln Train Station 35 Carlisle St |
Civic | Gettysburg Foundation Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026, PASDA), district 'GETTYSBURG BORO': parcel 16007-0163, owner 'GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION', exempt (CX), 0.12 acres, last sale date 01/29/2014. The Foundation, the park's non-profit partner, also holds 3.69 acres at 72 SW Confederate Ave (2014). |
Institution | —A |
| Majestic Theater 25 Carlisle St |
Civic | Gettysburg College Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026, PASDA), district 'GETTYSBURG BORO': parcel 16007-0159, owner 'GETTYSBURG COLLEGE', commercial class (CC, not exempt), 0.73 acres, last sale date 05/14/1993. The Lincoln Square block opposite is a mix of private entities and the federal Wills House. |
Institution | —A |
| Dal-Tile plant 211 N Fourth St |
Industrial | Dal-Tile Corporation Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026): two industrial (I) parcels at 211 N Fourth St in the name 'DAL-TILE CORPORATION': 10.77 acres (last sale 02/15/1991) and 2.55 acres (03/04/2010) - 13.3 acres, the borough's largest industrial holding. Mohawk Industries' FY2025 10-K Exhibit 21 lists Dal-Tile, LLC (Pennsylvania) and Dal-Tile Group Inc. among its subsidiaries; the roll still carries the older corporate name. Spectra-Kote Corporation holds the next industrial site, 8.02 acres at 301 E Water St (11/15/2017). |
Public company | —B |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Computed from the Adams County tax-parcel layer on PASDA (Oct 2026), parcels with district 'GETTYSBURG BORO'. The open layer carries no assessed values, so the most valuable ground cannot be ranked by value; figures are counts, acres and sale dates.
Parcels in the borough1,921 parcels; about 868 acres
Polygon area of the parcels (streets excluded); 1,148 residential (R), 146 residential-apartment (RA), 147 commercial (CC) and others.
Exempt ground113 parcels, 431.6 acres - about half the parcel area
X-class parcels on the layer. The Borough's FY2026 budget message puts the exempt share of assessed property at over 40%.
Largest single parcelGettysburg College main campus, about 185.7 acres
300 N Washington St, 202.7 deeded acres, exempt.
Residential turnover80 residential-class parcels with a 2025 last-sale date
98 in 2022, 65 in 2024, 36 so far in 2026; the layer gives dates, not prices.
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Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
Gettysburg is a borough of 1,921 tax parcels covering about 868 acres of parcel ground, and half of that ground is exempt: the 113 exempt (X-class) parcels cover 431.6 acres. Gettysburg College alone holds about 197.5 acres - nearly a quarter of the borough - and with the Lutheran seminary, the school district, the Borough, the hospital and the National Park Service the institutions hold most of the open land. The battlefield park itself lies mostly outside the borough line. The Borough's FY2026 budget message says over 40% of its assessed property is exempt. The layer carries owners, acres and sale dates but no values or prices.
| Name | Type | Parcels and acres inside the borough, Oct 2026 layer |
|---|---|---|
| Gettysburg College Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026), parcels with district 'GETTYSBURG BORO'; acres are the parcel polygons' area inside the layer (deeded acres in brackets where a tract runs outside the borough). The 185.7-acre main campus parcel (300 N Washington St, 'GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ETAL', 202.7 deeded acres), 31 parcels in its own name (houses, offices, the Majestic Theater) and one in 'GETTYSBURG COLLEGE TITLE HOLDING CO'. The College also says it owns the Hotel Gettysburg, held as Gettysburg Hotel Investors LP (2 parcels, 0.9 acres). |
Institution | 33 parcels, about 197.5 acresA |
| Borough of Gettysburg Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026), parcels with district 'GETTYSBURG BORO'; acres are the parcel polygons' area inside the layer (deeded acres in brackets where a tract runs outside the borough). Recorded under both 'BOROUGH OF GETTYSBURG' and 'GETTYSBURG BOROUGH'. Almost all of it is one 48.1-acre parcel on Long Ln (last sale 09/06/2019); the municipal building lot at 59 E High St is 0.62 acres. Gettysburg Municipal Authority, the water/sewer authority, holds 6 more parcels (3.1 acres). |
Government | 9 parcels, about 52.8 acresA |
| Gettysburg Area School District Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026), parcels with district 'GETTYSBURG BORO'; acres are the parcel polygons' area inside the layer (deeded acres in brackets where a tract runs outside the borough). A 50.4-acre exempt campus at 37 Lefever St (last sale 08/10/2012) and a 0.76-acre lot. |
Government | 2 parcels, about 51.8 acresA |
| United States of America (Department of the Interior, National Park Service) Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026), parcels with district 'GETTYSBURG BORO'; acres are the parcel polygons' area inside the layer (deeded acres in brackets where a tract runs outside the borough). Seven name variants (e.g. 'U S DEPT OF THE INTERIOR', 'U S A'), mostly along Steinwehr Ave, Taneytown Rd and Baltimore St at the park's edge, plus the David Wills House on Lincoln Square. The largest in-borough pieces are 26.2 acres on Long Ln and 7.7 acres at 791 Baltimore St (22.02 deeded). One park parcel, 16F14-0001, carries 1,530.25 deeded acres but only a 0.11-acre sliver lies in the borough. USPS holds the post office, 115 Buford Ave (2.5 acres). |
Government | 24 parcels, about 43.9 acres in the boroughA |
| Lutheran Theological Seminary (United Lutheran Seminary) Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026), parcels with district 'GETTYSBURG BORO'; acres are the parcel polygons' area inside the layer (deeded acres in brackets where a tract runs outside the borough). 61 Seminary Ridge, exempt, last sale date 05/05/2020. Parts of the ridge were sold to the Civil War Trust under a $3.5M agreement announced in 2018 (ULS release), and a plot to the county library system in 2025. |
Institution | 1 parcel, about 36.1 acres (38.22 deeded)B |
| The Gettysburg Hospital (WellSpan) Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026), parcels with district 'GETTYSBURG BORO'; acres are the parcel polygons' area inside the layer (deeded acres in brackets where a tract runs outside the borough). 147 Gettys St (14.98 acres, exempt) and two S Washington St lots in the hospital's name, plus a 1.88-acre lot held by 'WELLSPAN PROPERTIES INC' (2002). |
Institution | 4 parcels, about 17.6 acresA |
| Civil War Preservation Trust (American Battlefield Trust) Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026), parcels with district 'GETTYSBURG BORO'; acres are the parcel polygons' area inside the layer (deeded acres in brackets where a tract runs outside the borough). 401 Buford Ave (3.48 acres) and 254 Seminary Ridge (0.66), both 01/07/2015, and lots on Hillcrest Pl (2013) and Wainwright Ave (2014). The Gettysburg Foundation, the park's non-profit partner, holds 2 parcels (4.0 acres) including the Lincoln Train Station. |
Institution | 4 parcels, about 5.6 acresA |
| County of Adams; Adams County Housing Authority Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026), parcels with district 'GETTYSBURG BORO'; acres are the parcel polygons' area inside the layer (deeded acres in brackets where a tract runs outside the borough). The County holds the courthouse (117 Baltimore St) and High St office lots; the Housing Authority 40 E High St, 54 E Stevens St and units on N Stratton St and Village Dr. Adams County Transit Authority 2 parcels (1.3 acres). Utilities: Metropolitan Edison Company 2 parcels (0.85 acres), Columbia Gas of PA 1. A 1.36-acre exempt strip on Howard St is carried as 'GETTYSBURG AND HARRISBURG', the old railroad's name. |
Government | County 5 parcels, 2.2 acres; Housing Authority 4 parcels, 1.9 acresA |
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Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
The borough is built out: new homes in this market go up in the surrounding townships, not inside Gettysburg. Adams County reports building permits to the Census Bureau county-wide, with no figure for the borough: 476 single-family units ($174.6M) permitted in 2025 and 403 ($135.4M) in 2024, and no two-unit or multifamily units in either year. No builder holds a lot inside the borough on the Oct 2026 layer. Of the borough's 1,321 residential-class parcels, about 130 are held by companies (LLCs, partnerships, corporations) and 30 by trusts; the rest stand in individuals' names, who are not named here. No builder league table for Adams County was found.
| Name | Type | Residential parcels held, Oct 2026 layer |
|---|---|---|
| SPG Capital LLC / SPG Asset Management LLC The largest company holder of houses in the borough (16 + 3); a rental holder, not a builder. |
Private company | 19 residential parcelsA |
| Spontaneous Holdings LLC Rental houses, deeds 2015-2022. |
Private company | 8 residential parcelsA |
| Sell Today PA LLC Name suggests a resale/flip buyer; the roll states only the holdings. |
Private company | 5 residential parcelsA |
| Adams County Housing Authority Public housing at 40 E High St, 54 E Stevens St, N Stratton St and Village Dr. |
Government | 4 parcelsA |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Gettysburg has no office towers or REITs. Its commercial ground - 449 non-exempt commercial-class parcels, about 156 acres - is downtown shops, battlefield-edge tourist frontage on Baltimore St and Steinwehr Ave, the hotel, two factories and student and small apartment buildings. The largest private holders are the College, two manufacturers and a handful of local LLCs, none holding more than about two dozen parcels. Holdings filed under a person's name, or under company names that are a person's name or a family's, are left out. No values are on the open layer, so figures are parcel counts and acres.
| Name | Type | Parcels and acres in the borough, Oct 2026 layer |
|---|---|---|
| SPG Capital LLC and SPG Asset Management LLC Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026), borough parcels. The largest private holder by count: 20 parcels as SPG Capital LLC (houses and apartment buildings on York, Chambersburg, S Washington and E Middle Sts, and commercial lots at 51 and 60 Chambersburg St), deeds Dec 2016 to Sept 2020, and 3 houses as SPG Asset Management LLC (2015). A single-family and small-apartment rental holding; who stands behind it was not established. |
Private company | 23 parcels, about 2.9 acresA |
| Spontaneous Holdings LLC Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026), borough parcels. Houses on N Stratton St, E Lincoln Ave and W Middle St and commercial lots on York St, Buford Ave and 145 Baltimore St, deeds 2015 to April 2025. |
Private company | 11 parcels, about 1.3 acresA |
| Erian Associates Limited Partnership Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026), borough parcels. Tourist frontage at the battlefield edge: 523, 548, 613 and 619 Baltimore St and a Steinwehr Rd lot, deeds 2009-2010. Felty Investments LP holds 777, 789 and 700 Baltimore St (2.3 acres, 2011-2014). |
Private company | 5 parcels, about 2.3 acresA |
| L & SW Enterprises LLC and LSW Realty LLC Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026), borough parcels. 5 parcels as L & SW Enterprises LLC (49 and 55 Steinwehr Ave, 421 Baltimore St, two houses; 2012-2018) and 4 as LSW Realty LLC (48 Baltimore St, 2024, and three houses). The two are recorded as separate entities; that they are related is not stated on the roll. |
Private company | 9 parcels, about 1.1 acresA |
| Dal-Tile Corporation (Mohawk Industries) Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026), borough parcels. The plant at 211 N Fourth St, the largest private site in the borough after the College and the seminary. Spectra-Kote Corporation, 301 E Water St, 8.02 acres (2017); Schmuck Company Inc, 615 York St, 6.02 acres (2009); Timely Place LLC, 150 N Third St, 3.12 acres (2014). |
Public company | 2 industrial parcels, 13.3 acresA |
| Breckenridge Village Associates; Altamont Adams County parcel layer (Oct 2026), borough parcels. The two largest apartment (CA-class) parcels outside the College: 413 West St, Breckenridge Village Associates (1994), and 35 Buford Ave, 'ALTAMONT' (2004). 501 Richardson Acquisition LLC holds 3 parcels on N Stratton St (2.4 acres, July 2021). |
Private company | apartment sites of 2.7 and 2.55 acresA |
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Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Sale prices: none of the marquee conveyances carries a price on the open layer; deeds (with stated consideration and transfer tax) sit behind the County land-records account.
- Assessed values: the open layer has none, so the highest-valued parcel and the core's assessed total could not be stated.
- Who stands behind SPG Capital LLC, Spontaneous Holdings LLC, Erian Associates LP and Gettysburg Hotel Investors LP (beyond the College's own statement for the hotel) was not established.
- Whether the 22-acre 'U S DEPT OF THE INTERIOR' parcel at 791 Baltimore St is the Soldiers' National Cemetery was not checked against a park source.
- Whether the 2018 $3.5M Civil War Trust purchase closed on the borough parcels it now holds (401 Buford Ave, 254 Seminary Ridge, deeds Jan 2015) is not shown - the deed dates predate the release, so the 11-acre portion may lie partly in Cumberland Township.
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Sources
- Adams County Parcels 202610 (layer 2), AdamsCounty MapServer — Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA), Penn State, for Adams County Office of Planning & Development · openA
- Adams County - Parcels (data summary, download) — PASDA · openA
- Adams County Parcels - full metadata — PASDA / Adams County · openA
- Adams County Recorder of Deeds — County of Adams · openA
- Recording Fee Bill, Recorder of Deeds, effective 12.01.25 — County of Adams · openA
- Manager's Budget Message FY2026 — Borough of Gettysburg · openA
- County of Adams Terms of Use — County of Adams · openA
- Family Weekend: Accommodations (The Hotel Gettysburg) — Gettysburg College · openA
- United Lutheran Seminary and Civil War Trust Announce Agreement to Protect Historic Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg — United Lutheran Seminary, via Newswire · openA
- ACLS acquires land for future library — Gettysburg Connection (Adams County Library System announcement) · openA
- Mohawk Industries 10-K FY2025, Exhibit 21 (subsidiaries) — SEC EDGAR · openA
- Building Permits Survey, Northeast Region places, annual 2025 — U.S. Census Bureau · openA
- American Battlefield Trust Terms of Service — American Battlefield Trust · openA