Kissling Farm

Located in the rolling hills of Heidelberg Township in Berks County, the Kissling Farm is a working dairy property whose core dates to the late eighteenth century. Its two-and-one-half story stone farmhouse, completed in 1798 by Jacob and Catharina Klob, has Federal details including crossetted door surrounds, a fan light, jack arch lintels and an ornate parlor cupboard. A stone cabin, believed built in 1793, stands south of the house, and a frame bank barn was rebuilt in 1890 after a fire. Outbuildings include a stone-lined storage arch, a beehive bake oven and a butcher house. The farm is listed for its association with agriculture and for its architecture. It is presented as an example of a late eighteenth and nineteenth century family farm that converted to dairying in the early twentieth century, with its house and farmstead largely unchanged.