John Nolen – The Future City of Reading Pennsylvania
John Nolen (1869–1937) was the first American to identify himself exclusively as a town and city planner. Nolen was [...]
Bern Township, Berks County
Bern Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Bern Township was settled in 1733, mostly by German farmers. [...]
Reading Red Sox, Reading, PA
The Reading Red Sox are a defunct minor league baseball affiliate of the Boston Red Sox baseball franchise. The [...]
Richards’ Toy Corner Reading, PA
Richards' toy corner, located on the northeast corner of Front and Buttonwood, was probably the largest store devoted to [...]
Replica of Carpenters’ Hall, Reading, PA
Located at the Southwest corner of 8th and Penn Streets in Reading, PA is a building patterned architecturally after [...]
The Strand Theater
The Strand Theatre was located at the Northeast corner of at 9th and Spring Streets in Reading. The city's [...]
Modernization and Urban Renewal of Penn Street, Reading, PA
In the 1930s Reading, Pennsylvania, was a medium-sized city of 111,000 inhabitants. As the seat of Berks County, Reading [...]
Reading City Park – Penn’s Common
Film of City Park, Penn's Common, 1929 showing old bandstand and prison. Water-Works, Prison, and Fairgrounds Reading [...]
Northwest Corner of Fifth and Washington Streets
Michael Brecht, (1732-1814), the third son of an emigrant, came to Reading in January 1752, the year Berks County [...]
Southeast Corner of Fifth and Washington Streets
Around 1939 the white facade Post Office at the Southeast corner of 5th and Washington Streets was constructed. [...]
The Great Flood of 1850
Two episodes of serious flooding occurred in southeastern Pennsylvania in the summer of 1850. A tropical storm moving north [...]
Berks County Prison in City Park
Long before the construction of the Berks County prison in Bern Township a battle raged over what to do [...]
City Park Stone Heart
Where the Reading, Perkiomen and Philadelphia Turnpike (now Perkiomen Avenue) intersects Penn Street, there once stood a wall with [...]
Douglas and Weiser, Charles S. Foos School
Hardly anyone will remember the building at Douglas and Weiser Streets as the former Douglas and Weiser Junior High [...]
Origin of the Name Schuylkill
The word "Schuylkill" is of Dutch origin. History has it that the first European to voyage up the Schuylkill [...]
Rose Valley and East Reading Expansion
Many years ago the glen stretching between present day Egelman's Park and Pendora Park was given the name Rosenthal [...]
Mineral Pigments of East Reading
Neversink Mountain, and its counterpart, Mt. Penn, are composed of Hardyston quartzite which being resistant to the atmospheric agencies, [...]
Haak Farm in East Reading
A farm belonging to Michael Haak once encompassed about 229 acres in East Reading beginning at a point what [...]
Berkshire Hotel
Ground was broken for the former Berkshire Hotel, Northwest corner of Fifth and Washington Streets, Reading, PA, on the [...]
Monsignor George Bornemann
George Bornemann was born October 5, 1838, at Lingen, Province of Hanover, Germany. His father was a rope-maker; his [...]
The Old White Store and Stichter’s Hardware Store
One of the first business places in Reading was the store of Conrad Weiser at a little crossroads we [...]
