MY HOME The Home History of 109 Berley Road Reading PA 19604 (Franis Parvin Homestead/ Underground Rail Road Home) November 7th, 2012 10:21 AM The Francis Parvin Homestead Date Stone 1758~The Berkley Historic District/National Registry of Historic Places, as well as the Berks County registry of historic places. The home was occupied by seven generations of the Parvin family and transferred for the first time from the Parvin descendants to the Hirneisen family in 1999. Francis Parvin was a Quaker abolitionist, Judge, and member of the Provincial Assembly alongside of Conrad Weiser and the sons of William Penn. Francis Parvin’s great grandsons open the home as a Slave safe haven and an intricate part of the underground railroad and a tunnel system is still in existence. Impressive stucco-over-Limestone Home Features center hall entry w/open stair, grand living & dining rooms, newer custom kitchen w/period details Intact, subzero refrigerator, & butcher block worktops & Island, walk-In open hearth fireplace w/brick-lined bake oven. One-of-a-kind homestead, Preserved with original elements: five fireplaces, wood plank floors, stone ice house, well house, butchering house, summer Kitchen with original scrapple kettle, and two semi-subterranean cold cellars. I Own a Piece of History!
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