{{External links|date=June 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} The '''Round Top Museum''' was a Gettysburg Battlefield visitor attraction established by John H. Rosensteel in 1888 on the north foot of Little Round Top<ref name=Platt>{{Cite news |last=Platt |first=Barbara |date=November 15, 2007 |title=Rosensteels could buy naming rights |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FoYlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pPQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4214,1468020&dq=rosensteel+round-top+museum&hl=en |work=As our readers see it |accessdate=2011-01-26}}</ref> near the Round Top Station and northeast of the Wheatfield Road and Grand Central Avenue (now Sedgwick Av) intersection. The museum of Battle of Gettysburg artifacts was in Rosensteel's 1884 frame home<ref name=GT1885>{{Cite news |date=May 7, 1985 |title=Improvements |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xpoyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=regFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3433,5135597&dq=rosensteel+round-top&hl=en |work=Out of the Past: 100 Years Ago |accessdate=2011-02-24 |quote=About 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon the stable of Mr. George Englebert, on Seminary ridge, took fire…"}}</ref> and served as the "'''Round Top inn'''"<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 12, 1935 |title=Rotarians are Hosts to Ladies Monday Evening |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zQcmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Ef0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4887,1438870&dq=gilbert+round-top+gettysburg&hl=en |accessdate=2011-02-26}}</ref> restaurant/small hotel.<ref name=GT1952>{{Cite news |date=April 30, 1952 |title=Story of Old Trolley Line Told to Club |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=s9wlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3080,46849&dq=rosensteel+pavilion+dancing+gettysburg&hl=en |accessdate=2011-02-26}} '''NOTE''': North of the Round Top station on the Round Top Branch was the Hancock Station near the battlefield's Vermont Memorial on Grand Central Avenue ("Hancock" Av by 1886).[https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi4tAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA6]</ref> On the east side of the residence, construction began in March 1902 [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mNwlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2415,2292212&dq=john-rosensteel+round-top&hl=en] for a "dancing pavilion" lit with acetelyne lamps that opened on May 25, 1902.<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 25, 1927 |title=Local Miscellany |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-OIlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=o_UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2075,2259040&dq=rosensteel+pavilion+dancing+gettysburg&hl=en |work=Out of the Past: Twenty-Five Years Ago |accessdate=2011-02-18 |quote=''The G. A. R. band gave a very enjoyable concert in the Diamond last Friday evening and "the next day it rained." … The dancing pavilion recently erected by John Rosensteel at Round Top was formally opened Friday evening. The floor was beautifully illuminated with acetylene lamps.''}}</ref> A 1906 hop was held at the "'''Little Round Top Hotel'''",[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=H4ctAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XJwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6403,4561883&dq=camp-henderson+gettysburg&hl=en]<!--column 2--> the "Round Top dance pavilion" was the site of a 1918 fire [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rUdgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GHENAAAAIBAJ&pg=4736,7168592&dq=rosensteel+round-top&hl=en] and a 1925 stabbing,<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 15, 1925 |title=Two Are Stabbed in Cutting Affray… |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xb0lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fPsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2059,370971&dq=round-top+dance+gettysburg&hl=en |accessdate=2011-02-24}}</ref> and picnics at '''Rosensteel Park''' were held as late as 1957.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sE4mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=W_8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=848,2466857&dq=rosensteel-park&hl=en] The facility also included a store where a Camp Renaissance CCC worker committed a theft in 1936.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mQ4mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4_wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2787,4393580&dq=rosensteel+round-top&hl=en]

The Round Top Museum and the 1921 Rosensteel electric map museum on Cemetery Ridge were owned by the Gettysburg National Museum corporation until 1964,<ref name=GT1964>{{Cite news |last=Miller |first=Bernard V |date=May 19, 1971 |title=Action to Quiet Title to the Heirs…of Margaret E. Rosensteel |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=unYlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1fIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5937,2453479&dq=james-rider+barlow&hl=en |work=Legal Notices |accessdate=2010-03-04}}</ref> and the Round Top Museum became part of the Gettysburg National Military Park in 1971 which used the building as an environmental resource center until it was demolished c. 1982.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 28, 1971 |title=Nature Study Areas Are Set For Park Here |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7K0lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4fIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5014,383941&dq=round-top-museum&hl=en |accessdate=2011-01-26}} <br>{{Cite news |date=July 5, 1973 |title=Two Special Park Walks This Summer |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BlYzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rfIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4708,4547548&dq=round-top-museum&hl=en |accessdate=2011-01-26}} <br>{{Cite news |last=De Blasi |first=Nancy |date=June 11, 1982 |title=Draft of park plan will be printed soon |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BttcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P1gNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4569,4265607&dq=round-top-museum&hl=en |accessdate=2011-01-26}}</ref> Part of the museum's collection is in the GNMP's set of 43,000 American Civil War artifacts displayed in the 2008 Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jiNaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4EsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1331,4924500&dq=civil-war-preservation-trust+gettysburg&hl=en]

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