Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Skew Arch Bridge, North Sixth Street ...
See also HABS PA-1025 for additional documentation. Includes photographs. See also HAER PA-117 for additional documentation. Significance: This structure's three spans are extremely rare examples of true skew a... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Riem-Schmidt-Deppen Farm, Barn, State Route 183 & Church Road (Penn To...
Survey number: HABS PA-264-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: ca. 1965 Subsequent Work Building/structure ... More
Lamm's Mill, Sterner & Sleepy Hollow Roads (North Heidelburg Township)...
Significance: This 3 1/2 story limestone masonry grist and saw mill was abandoned about forty years ago. The 35 by 40 feet structure replaced the earlier, ca. 1800, mill built here by "Fishers." The existing ... 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
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
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
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
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
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
Reber Barn (1770), (Centre Township), Centerport, Berks County, PA
Survey number: HABS PA-5275 Building/structure dates: 1770 Initial Construction
Barto, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Barn on the farm of Thomas G. Evans...
Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Birdsboro (vicinity), Berks County, Pennsylvania. Sewing machine in th...
Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Reading, Pennsylvania. May M. Link, working at the anvil, straightenin...
Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
William Penn Tavern, Privy, Gruber Road & State Route 183 (Penn Townsh...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Reber Farm, Barn, Gruber Road vicinity (Bern Township), Mount Pleasant...
Survey number: HABS PA-256-B Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1977 Demolished
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
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
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
Log Blacksmith Shop, Stonersville, Berks County, PA
Survey number: HABS PA-148 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Reading News Building, 22-24 North Fifth Street, Reading, Berks County...
Written data includes floor plans. Significance: The City of Reading has witnessed the appearance and disappearance of numerous newspapers since the origin of the town's existence. The Reading News was establis... More
Reber Farm, Canal Store, Gruber Road vicinity (Bern Township), Mount P...
Survey number: HABS PA-256-C Building/structure dates: ca. 1835 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1977 Demolished
David Schneider House, (Oley Township), Oley Line, Berks County, PA
Significance: Built in 1831, this is an example of a simple, but substantial farm house. Survey number: HABS PA-1044 Building/structure dates: 1831 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
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Peacock's Lock Viaduct, Spanning Schu...
Significance: The Peacock's Lock Viaduct, named after a nearby lock on the Schuylkill Division Canal, may be the only masonry arch bridge in the U.S. with pierced spandrels. The circular openings between arche... More
Eliza Stamm House, Gruber Road (Penn Township), Mount Pleasant, Berks ...
Significance: This nineteenth-century brick residence maintains the traditional Pennsylvania German, three-room layout, complete with two identical front entry doors placed side by side. Unprocessed Field not... More
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
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Reading Depot, North Sixth Street at ...
See also HAER PA-120 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Survey number: HAER PA-121 Building/structure dates: 1873- 1874 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1897 Subs... More
Kaufman Small House, State Route 662 vicinity (Oley Township), Oley, B...
Significance: This an example of an early, simple Pennsylvania -German farmhouse, and part of a well-preserved group of farm buildings. Survey number: HABS PA-1046 Building/structure dates: after. 1727- befo... More
Le Van Mill, Kutztown Road vicinity, Kutztown, Berks County, PA
Significance: Important example of one of the early grist mills in central Pennsylvania. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-116 Survey number: HABS PA-1030 Building/structure dates... More
Le Van Mill, Kutztown Road vicinity, Kutztown, Berks County, PA
Significance: Important example of one of the early grist mills in central Pennsylvania. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-116 Survey number: HABS PA-1030 Building/structure dates... More
Dundore Farm, Springhouse, State Route 183 vicinity (Penn Township), M...
See also HABS PA-261 for written historical data for this structure. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-154, FN-155 Survey number: HABS PA-261-H Building/structure dates: 1842 Initi... More
Stamm Farm, Summer Kitchen & Smokehouse, Gruber Road vicinity (Penn To...
See also HABS PA-266 for written historical data for this structure. Survey number: HABS PA-266-F Building/structure dates: after. 1800- before. 1850 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1977 Demolished
Lauer-Gerhard Farm, Farm Lane (North Heidelberg Township), Brownsville...
Significance: The Lauer/Gerhard farmstead is a well-preserved example of a Pennsylvania German family farm. Its layout illustrates socio-historical continuity and spatial integrity through nearly 200 years, and... 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
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
Griesemer Mill Covered Bridge, 3.5 miles north of State Route 562, spa...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Six Penny Bridge, Spanning Sixpenny Creek, Monocacy, Berks County, PA
Significance: Six Penny Bridge is an intact example of an early twentieth century reinforced concrete arch bridge built by the Ferro Concrete Company of Philadelphia, an agent for Daniel B. Luten's patented des... More
Six Penny Bridge, Spanning Sixpenny Creek, Monocacy, Berks County, PA
Significance: Six Penny Bridge is an intact example of an early twentieth century reinforced concrete arch bridge built by the Ferro Concrete Company of Philadelphia, an agent for Daniel B. Luten's patented des... 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
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
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
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
Konig-Speicher Farm, House, Church Road (North Heidelberg Township), M...
See also HABS PA-258 for written historical data for this structure. Survey number: HABS PA-258-B Building/structure dates: ca. 1825 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1856 Subsequent Work
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
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Skew Arch Bridge, North Sixth Street ...
See also HABS PA-1025 for additional documentation. Includes photographs. See also HAER PA-117 for additional documentation. Significance: This structure's three spans are extremely rare examples of true skew a... 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
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
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
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
401 Penn Street (House), Reading, Berks County, PA
Significance: This structure was constructed at two different times. The rear section was built first, probably late 19th century and has 6 bays facing on N. 4th Street. The corner building which has four bays ... More
St. Gabriel's Church, U.S. Route 422, Douglassville, Berks County, PA
Significance: This 1801 building with unusual masonry work is an example of the small churches of rural eastern Pennsylvania. Survey number: HABS PA-1038 Building/structure dates: 1801 Initial Construction ... 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
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
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
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
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
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