Description:

A two-story frame house with a four register facade, shutters on the first floor windows only.

Background:

Dorothy and Joseph Reger played important roles in the early years of Germantown's Methodist community. They resided on Haines Street and were noted for their manufacture of apple vinegar, but they also had a little grocery store, a one and a half story building on Germantown Avenue below Haines Street (possibly 5859 Germantown Avenue).

After the house was demolished in the late nineteenth century, Henry Thomas built a pair of brick houses on the site.

Sources:

• GHS: Jellett, Edwin C. "Germantown Historical Miscellany," p. 250 (text).
• GHS: Keyser, Naaman. Manuscript Notes for v. 2 (north of Chelten), History of Old Germantown, pp. 32-33 (unpublished typewritten notes).
• GHS: Photo Box 11, envelope 2, no. 70: "Reger, Jacob House E. Haines Street" (print from glass negative for "Spaces and Places" exhibit, 1980; print also found in Photo Box 1, f. 7 and in Photo Scrapbook 2, p. 90, all at GHS).
• GHS: Photo Scrapbook 2: Johnson, George Clarence, compiler. "Pictorial Germantown Road & the Vicinity & Some of its Inhabitants, pp. 89, 90 (text and portraits of Jacob and Dorothy Reger, photo of house).