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The Pennsylvania Room & Historical Museum
(State and Local History & Central Pa. Genealogy)
203 North Allegheny St.
Bellefonte, PA 16823
(814) 355-1516, ext. 214
paroom@centrecountylibrary.org
Located in the Centre County Library
Historical Museum Building, northwest corner of Allegheny & Howard Sts.
HOURS:
Monday - Friday: 10:00 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 4 p.m. |
BELLEFONTE
VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS
Saturday, December 12 from 10am to 4 pm &
Sunday, December 13 from Noon to 4 pm
in the Centre County Library Historical Museum
Enjoy our museum rooms, decorated Christmas trees, and holiday music
on the Museum's 1890 Steinway grand piano.

The Centre County
Library Historical Museum
in Bellefonte has the following holiday schedule:
Thursday, December 24 through
Saturday, December 26:
closed
Thursday, December 31 and
Friday, January 1, 2010: closed
Saturday, January 2: regular hours resume

Pa. Room Collection
Services
Genealogy Links
Tour our museum during your Pennsylvania Room visit!
The Centre County Library & Historical Museum invites Pennsylvania Room
visitors to enjoy a tour of the museum exhibition rooms as part of your
research trip.
The museum is open for tours during regular
building hours, Monday-Friday,
10-5, and Saturday, 10-4.
Two of the four display rooms, located on the second floor (stairway access
only) of the historic 1814 Miles-Humes House, have been renovated in the
past year. One of the areas is now the Textile Room,
displaying woven and quilted and other fabric items from Centre County,
including an array of wool coverlets made by Emmanuel and William Ettinger
and Frederick Weaver of Aaronsburg in the early to mid-1800's.
The textile display includes two recent acquisitions: a gift of two
Ettinger coverlets in pristine condition from Ellen Burd of Kansas City. Ms.
Burd received the coverlets through her family, the Marshalls of Buffalo
Run, and wanted to return them to the county from which they came, for
safekeeping and the enjoyment of museum visitors.
The second renovated display room showcases an exhibit of Civil War
artifacts from the museum's permanent collections, including a variety of
items from soldier Simon Harper of Penn's Valley, Centre County. Harper was a musician in
the 148th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and his drum and various other items are displayed, including
two intricately fashioned wooden picture frames that Harper made while he
was in a soldiers' rest camp. The frames contain photographs of Harper and
his wife.
Tours of the Centre County Library & Historical Museum are free.

The Pennsylvania Room of the
Centre County Library and Historical Museum is located in the historic
Miles-Humes home at 203 North Allegheny Street in Bellefonte.
The collection focuses on Centre County genealogy and Pennsylvania history, and has a
specialized collection of family histories, county histories, church and cemetery
records, original Centre County
records, newspapers, historical and genealogical periodicals, and the
massive
Spangler Collection
of data on families of central Pennsylvania. See
scope of collection
for a more detailed description of the holdings.
Contact:
Pennsylvania Room
- For further information or research
inquiries.
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