Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...
Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original lo... More
Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...
Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original lo... More
Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...
Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original lo... More
Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...
Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original lo... More
Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...
Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original lo... More
Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...
Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original lo... More
Conrad's Warehouse, Between Locks 38 & 39 on Union Canal, Bernville, B...
Significance: This modest building is a rare survival of the canal era. It reflects the economic impact of the Union Canal. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-5 Survey number: HAER... More
Exeter Friends Meeting House, State Route 662 (Exeter Township), Stone...
Significance: The Exeter Friends Meeting House is a good example of the small stone meeting house built by Quakers in Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this st... More
George Ege Mansion, U.S. Route 422 vicinity, Robesonia, Berks County, ...
Significance: This is one of the largest Georgian houses built about the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries by the iron masters of eastern Pennsylvania. Survey number: HABS PA-102... More
"S" Bridge, Spanning Tulpehocken Creek at State Route 3061, Stouchsbur...
Significance: This three-span stone arch bridge represents the long tradition of stone arch bridge-building in Pennsylvania. The bridge was once a crossing on the Berks and Dauphin Turnpike, and it is near the ... More
"S" Bridge, Spanning Tulpehocken Creek at State Route 3061, Stouchsbur...
Significance: This three-span stone arch bridge represents the long tradition of stone arch bridge-building in Pennsylvania. The bridge was once a crossing on the Berks and Dauphin Turnpike, and it is near the ... More
De Turck House, State Route 662 vicinity (Oley Township), Oley, Berks ...
Significance: This building is an interesting example of the small stone house built by the early settlers in this area, which usually preceded the erection of a larger house. Unprocessed Field note material ... More
De Turck House, State Route 662 vicinity (Oley Township), Oley, Berks ...
Significance: This building is an interesting example of the small stone house built by the early settlers in this area, which usually preceded the erection of a larger house. Unprocessed Field note material ... More
John Conrad House, Sheidy Road (Penn Township), Mount Pleasant, Berks ...
Written documentation includes outbuildings. Significance: This is an excellent example of a typical Pennsylvania German family farm that has developed continuously since the middle of the eighteenth century, T... More
John Conrad House, Sheidy Road (Penn Township), Mount Pleasant, Berks ...
Written documentation includes outbuildings. Significance: This is an excellent example of a typical Pennsylvania German family farm that has developed continuously since the middle of the eighteenth century, T... More
12 North Fifth Street, Reading, Berks County, PA
Written data includes floor plans. Survey number: HABS PA-5143 Building/structure dates: after. 1890- before. 1900 Initial Construction
Dreibelbis Station Bridge, Spanning Maiden Creek, Balthaser Road (TR 7...
Significance: Local craftsmen Simon Dreibelbis and Charles Kutz built the Dreibelbis Station Bridge in 1869. It is a 172' long, single span bridge with a double Burr-arch truss. One of only five covered bridg... More
Scarlets Mill Bridge, Spanning former Reading Railroad, Scarlets Mill,...
Significance: The Scarlets Mill Bridge is a cast- and wrought-iron Pratt-type truss with a rolled upper chord arched in the form of an ellipse, one of many built in the 1870s and 1880s for the Philadelphia and ... More
Scarlets Mill Bridge, Spanning former Reading Railroad, Scarlets Mill,...
Significance: The Scarlets Mill Bridge is a cast- and wrought-iron Pratt-type truss with a rolled upper chord arched in the form of an ellipse, one of many built in the 1870s and 1880s for the Philadelphia and ... More
Konig-Speicher Farm, North side of Church Road, south of Tulpehocken C...
Significance: In this example of a Pennsylvania German farm, the ensemble of farm buildings (termed die Bauerei) is compactly sited and takes advantage of the rolling contour of the land in an aesthetically ple... More
Mutual Fire Insurance Company Building, 16-20 North Fifth Street, Read...
Written data includes floor plans. Significance: The building was constructed as an office building and was used for this purpose until the recent past. Survey number: HABS PA-5144 Building/structure dates: ... More
Union Canal Locks, Bernville, Berks County, PA
Significance: The ruins of these locks document 19th-century canal technology, and illustrate the importance of water transportation in the first half of the century. Although the Union Canal failed to become ... More
Union Canal Locks, Bernville, Berks County, PA
Significance: The ruins of these locks document 19th-century canal technology, and illustrate the importance of water transportation in the first half of the century. Although the Union Canal failed to become ... More
De Turck House, Barn, State Route 662 vicinity, Oley Township, Oley, B...
Survey number: HABS PA-1023-A Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, small home in Sweden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Barn, State Route 122 detour, Reading, Berks County, PA
Survey number: HABS PA-5268 Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, small home in Sweden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Birdsboro (vicinity), Berks County, Pennsylvania. Hayloft where the Da...
Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Barto, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The Evans family at supper on the f...
Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Reading, Pennsylvania. Women workers on the railroad
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of lumber, lumberjack workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Stone Farmhouse, Oley Township, Oley, Berks County, PA
Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Speicher Bridge, Church Road over Tulpehocken Creek between Penn & Nor...
Significance: Speicher Bridge, a rural iron highway bridge, is a good example from the important mid-19th century era of metal bridge technology. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7... More
William Penn Tavern, Gruber Road & State Route 183 (Penn Township), Mo...
See also HAER PA-14 for additional documentation. The Tulpehocken Creek Survey was undertaken in compliance with Executive Order 11593 as a mitigative effort in the construction of Blue Marsh Lake in cooperatio... More
Joseph Conrad Farm, House, State Route 83 & Bright School Road (Penn T...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-174, FN-175 Survey number: HABS PA-260-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1815 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Subsequent Wo... More
Konig-Speicher Farm, Log House, Church Road (North Heidelberg Township...
See also HABS PA-258 for written historical data for this structure. Survey number: HABS PA-258-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1976 Subsequent Work
Bertolet-Herbein Cabin, Oley Line (Oley Township), Oley Line, Berks Co...
Significance: This building is one of the few surviving examples of a simple and picturesque type of home built by the first settlers in the Pennsylvania-German country. It is in imminent danger of demolition. ... More
Dundore Farm, Corn Crib & Wagon Shed, State Route 183 vicinity (Penn T...
See also HABS PA-261 for written historical data for this structure. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-159 Survey number: HABS PA-261-C Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial C... More
Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Barn, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brown...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS PA-1954-C Building/structure dates: after. 1765- before. 1800 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 1800 S... More
Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Barn, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brown...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS PA-1954-C Building/structure dates: after. 1765- before. 1800 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 1800 S... More
Barn, State Route 100 vicinity, New Berlinville, Berks County, PA
Survey number: HABS PA-5259 Public domain photograph of a farm barn, granary, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Main House, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township),...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS PA-1954-A Building/structure dates: after. 1765- before. 1800 Initial Construction
Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Main House, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township),...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS PA-1954-A Building/structure dates: after. 1765- before. 1800 Initial Construction
Pleasantville Covered Bridge, Spanning Little Manatawny Creek at Cover...
Significance: One of five remaining covered wooden bridges in Berks County, the bridge is a contributing resource in the Oley Township Historic District. It is distinctive for its two-phase construction: an arc... More
Mill Tract Farm, Mill Road (Exeter Township), Stonersville, Berks Coun...
Significance: Excellent example of a large farmhouse of the mid-eighteenth century, showing the architectural influence of the English settlers in Pennsylvania. Survey number: HABS PA-1037 Building/structure... More
Mill Tract Farm, Mill Road (Exeter Township), Stonersville, Berks Coun...
Significance: Excellent example of a large farmhouse of the mid-eighteenth century, showing the architectural influence of the English settlers in Pennsylvania. Survey number: HABS PA-1037 Building/structure... More
Brooke Manor House, Furnace Street, Birdsboro, Berks County, PA
Significance: "Brooke Manor" was the home for over one hundred years of a well-known iron-making family and was typical of manor houses that are now rapidly disappearing. The Brooke family owned Birdsboro, Hibe... More
Township map of Berks County, Pennsylvania, from actual surveys /
Relief shown by hachures. Map of Pennsylvania on front lining paper. LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 6160 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index and adve... More
Daniel Boone Birthplace, State Route 422 vicinity (Exeter Township), B...
Significance: A well-preserved and restored home of the pioneer Boone family, exemplifying the English influence in the early architecture of the Schuylkill Valley. Unprocessed Field note material exists for ... More
Stamm Farm, House, Gruber Road vicinity (Penn Township), Mount Pleasan...
See also HABS PA-266 for written historical data for this structure. Survey number: HABS PA-266-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1750- ca. 1800 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Subsequen... More
Stamm Farm, Barn, Gruber Road vicinity (Penn Township), Mount Pleasant...
See also HABS PA-266 for written historical data for this structure. Survey number: HABS PA-266-B Building/structure dates: ca. 1860 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1977 Demolished
Henry Fisher House, State Route 622 (Oley Township), Yellow House, Ber...
Significance: The Henry Fisher house is generally acknowledged to be the finest example of the Georgian house in Berks County. Survey number: HABS PA-1027 Building/structure dates: 1801 Initial Construction
Henry Fisher House, State Route 622 (Oley Township), Yellow House, Ber...
Significance: The Henry Fisher house is generally acknowledged to be the finest example of the Georgian house in Berks County. Survey number: HABS PA-1027 Building/structure dates: 1801 Initial Construction
Henry Fisher House, State Route 622 (Oley Township), Yellow House, Ber...
Significance: The Henry Fisher house is generally acknowledged to be the finest example of the Georgian house in Berks County. Survey number: HABS PA-1027 Building/structure dates: 1801 Initial Construction
William Penn Tavern, Washhouse & Butcher Shop, Gruber Road & State Rou...
Survey number: HABS PA-263-C Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1976 Demolished
Reber Farm, House, Gruber Road vicinity (Bern Township), Mount Pleasan...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-167 Survey number: HABS PA-256-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1834 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1965 Subsequent Work Buil... More
Pleasant Valley Roller Mill, Gruber Road, Bernville, Berks County, PA
Significance: This handsome masonry building, minus its 1946 frame addition, is highly typical of canal-related mils in the region. Although it clearly reflects its proximity to the Union Canal, it occupied th... More
Pleasant Valley Roller Mill, Gruber Road, Bernville, Berks County, PA
Significance: This handsome masonry building, minus its 1946 frame addition, is highly typical of canal-related mils in the region. Although it clearly reflects its proximity to the Union Canal, it occupied th... More
Pleasant Valley Roller Mill, Gruber Road, Bernville, Berks County, PA
Significance: This handsome masonry building, minus its 1946 frame addition, is highly typical of canal-related mils in the region. Although it clearly reflects its proximity to the Union Canal, it occupied th... More
Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...
Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original lo... More
Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...
Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original lo... More
Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...
Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original lo... More
Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...
Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original lo... More
Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...
Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original lo... More
Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...
Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original lo... More
Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...
Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original lo... More
Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Br...
Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original lo... More
Isaac Stamm House, Gruber Road (Penn Township), Mount Pleasant, Berks ...
Significance: This is a good example of the Pennsylvania German adaptation of a highly ornamented, Italianate dwelling house design. The building is brick and decorated with the full regalia of mid-Victorian br... More
Jacob Yoder House, (Pike Township), Lobachsville, Berks County, PA
Significance: An example of an early nineteenth century Pennsylvania German farmhouse. Survey number: HABS PA-1036 Building/structure dates: 1829 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 1829 Sub... More
Exeter Friends Meeting House, State Route 662 (Exeter Township), Stone...
Significance: The Exeter Friends Meeting House is a good example of the small stone meeting house built by Quakers in Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this st... More
George Ege Mansion, U.S. Route 422 vicinity, Robesonia, Berks County, ...
Significance: This is one of the largest Georgian houses built about the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries by the iron masters of eastern Pennsylvania. Survey number: HABS PA-102... More
Dundore Farm, Root Cellar, State Route 183 vicinity (Penn Township), M...
See also HABS PA-261 for written historical data for this structure & HABS PA-261-G for floor plans, elevations, & sections. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-157 Survey number: HAB... More
John Conrad House, Sheidy Road (Penn Township), Mount Pleasant, Berks ...
Written documentation includes outbuildings. Significance: This is an excellent example of a typical Pennsylvania German family farm that has developed continuously since the middle of the eighteenth century, T... More
Kaufman House, State Route 662 vicinity (Oley Township), Oley, Berks C...
Significance: The buildings on the Kaufman farm are the finest complete known example of a Pennsylvania-German farm group in the Oley valley. Survey number: HABS PA-1042 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 In... More
George Stoudt House, Eight Cornered House Road (Penn Township), Mount ...
Significance: This structure is an excellent example of the octagon craze which swept American building in the middle of the nineteenth century. It is particularly notable for being the midst of a Pennsylvania ... More
Dundore Farm, House, State Route 183 vicinity (Penn Township), Mount P...
See also HABS PA-261 for written historical data for this structure. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-152, FN-153 Survey number: HABS PA-261-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 I... More
Dundore Farm, House, State Route 183 vicinity (Penn Township), Mount P...
See also HABS PA-261 for written historical data for this structure. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-152, FN-153 Survey number: HABS PA-261-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 I... More
Dundore Farm, State Route 183 & Church Road vicinity, Penn Township (...
Significance: This is a good example of a nineteenth-century Pennsylvania German family farm. Although once very prosperous, the farm failed to adjust to agricultural modernization in the late nineteenth and ea... More
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Reading Depot Bridge, North Sixth Str...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N640 Survey number: HAER PA-117
Scarlets Mill Bridge, Spanning former Reading Railroad, Scarlets Mill,...
Significance: The Scarlets Mill Bridge is a cast- and wrought-iron Pratt-type truss with a rolled upper chord arched in the form of an ellipse, one of many built in the 1870s and 1880s for the Philadelphia and ... More
Dundore Farm, Granary, State Route 183 vicinity (Penn Township), Mount...
See also HABS PA-261 for written historical data for this structure. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-156 Survey number: HABS PA-261-D Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial C... More
Dauberville Bridge, Spanning Schuykill River on Belleman's Church Road...
Significance: The Dauberville Bridge is an representative example of an early twentieth century multiple-span concrete arch bridge. Constructed in 1908 and comprising four arches, it features a simply ornament... More
Union Canal Locks, Bernville, Berks County, PA
Significance: The ruins of these locks document 19th-century canal technology, and illustrate the importance of water transportation in the first half of the century. Although the Union Canal failed to become ... More
De Turck House, Barn, State Route 662 vicinity, Oley Township, Oley, B...
Survey number: HABS PA-1023-A Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, small home in Sweden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Reber Barn (1770), (Centre Township), Centerport, Berks County, PA
Survey number: HABS PA-5275 Building/structure dates: 1770 Initial Construction
Barn B, Moselem Springs, Berks County, PA
Survey number: HABS PA-5271-B Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, small home in Sweden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Haag-Haak Log House, State Route 183 (Jefferson Township), Bernville, ...
Survey number: HABS PA-254 Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction
Kathryn M. Miller, first woman to be employed as a laborer at the Read...
Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Rush's Mill Bridge, Spanning Plum Creek at North end of Union Canal Bi...
Significance: Rush's Mill Bridge is one of a small number of composite cast- and wrought-iron bridges yet remaining in the U.S. It is also one of the few existing examples employing the Howe-truss form in whic... More
Mouns Jones House (Ruins), U.S. Route 422 vicinity, Douglassville, Ber...
Significance: Built in 1716, this is generally though to be the earliest remaining building in Berks County, and is representative of the small houses built in this area at this period. Unprocessed Field note... More
Barn, Oley Township, Oley, Berks County, PA
Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Rennas Hotel, 403 Penn Street, Reading, Berks County, PA
Significance: The original use seems to have been for a dwelling. Survey number: HABS PA-5148 Building/structure dates: 1867 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after. 1950- before. 1960 Subseque... More
Stamm Farm, Butcher Shed, Wash House & Root Cellar, Gruber Road vicini...
See also HABS PA-266 for written historical data for this structure. Survey number: HABS PA-266-E Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1977 Demolished
William Penn Tavern, Gruber Road & State Route 183 (Penn Township), Mo...
See also HAER PA-14 for additional documentation. The Tulpehocken Creek Survey was undertaken in compliance with Executive Order 11593 as a mitigative effort in the construction of Blue Marsh Lake in cooperatio... More
Joseph Conrad Farm, House, State Route 83 & Bright School Road (Penn T...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-174, FN-175 Survey number: HABS PA-260-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1815 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Subsequent Wo... More
Joseph Conrad Farm, House, State Route 83 & Bright School Road (Penn T...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-174, FN-175 Survey number: HABS PA-260-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1815 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Subsequent Wo... More
Joseph Conrad Farm, House, State Route 83 & Bright School Road (Penn T...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-174, FN-175 Survey number: HABS PA-260-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1815 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Subsequent Wo... More
Joseph Conrad Farm, House, State Route 83 & Bright School Road (Penn T...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-174, FN-175 Survey number: HABS PA-260-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1815 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Subsequent Wo... More
Joseph Conrad Farm, House, State Route 83 & Bright School Road (Penn T...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-174, FN-175 Survey number: HABS PA-260-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1815 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Subsequent Wo... More
Knabb-Bieber Mill, Monocacy Creek (Oley Township), Oley, Berks County,...
Significance: A good example of a large stone mill with two fine doorways. Survey number: HABS PA-1031 Building/structure dates: 1809 Initial Construction
Dundore Farm, Corn Crib & Wagon Shed, State Route 183 vicinity (Penn T...
See also HABS PA-261 for written historical data for this structure. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-159 Survey number: HABS PA-261-C Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial C... More
Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Barn, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brown...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-181 Survey number: HABS PA-1954-C Building/structure dates: after. 1765- before. 1800 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 1800 S... More
Abraham Knabb Barn, Oley Line Road vicinity (Oley Township), Oley, Ber...
Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description