Source: Reading and Berks County Pennsylvania: Mirror to the Past (Collector's Edition), Wyomissing: Wyomissing New Home Federal Savings, undated.
12th & WALNUT Sts. -- Rev. Monsignor George Bornemann's crusade to see Reading through a typhoid epidemic of 1872 resulted in the founding of St. Joseph's Hospital, opened in a brick farmhouse, the hospital expanded to this structure in 1885. This view is from 12 & Walnut Sts., circa 1905.
Submitted by Judy.
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