Samuel Harrison, a regionally-prominent African-American minister (1818–1900) who served as chaplain to the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War.

[1] The Samuel Harrison House stands on the east side of Third Street near its junction with Silver Street in a residential area northeast of Pittsfield's central Park Square.

It is a 1+1⁄2-story plank-framed wooden structure, with a gabled roof, and a shed-roof porch extending along its south side.

It has modest vernacular Greek Revival elements, include gable returns and a Doric column supporting the porch, whose rear section is enclosed.

[2] In 2004, the Samuel Harrison Society was formed to save Rev.