Penn View Motel, West Reading
The Penn View Motel, located on the block between 2nd and 3rd Streets on Penn Avenue in West Reading, [...]
Nolen Favored Grouping of Public Buildings
The original public building in Reading stood in the center of Penn Square, directly at the intersection of Penn [...]
Seashore Mansion of William H. Luden
William Henry Luden, developer of the menthol cough drop and founder of the Luden's company in Reading, PA, amassed [...]
Widow Finney’s Town – Reading, PA
Located at the Southwest corner of 4th and Cherry Streets in Reading are three distinct restaurants. Judy's on Cherry [...]
West Reading Hotel
Until 1964 the most familiar structure in West Reading was the West Reading Hotel on the north side of [...]
Southeast Corner of Third and Penn Streets
The buildings at the southeast corner of 3rd and Penn Streets, presented the above appearance, when, in 1825, Daniel [...]
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 [...]
