the front door that had a carving that read: 17 CHHR 19. This carving was from Christian Herr, the actual builder of the house, who bought it from William Penn. Hans Herr was the leader of the family that lived in this colonial house and was considered one of the higher elder statesmen of all nine families that lived here. He was a leader in a civic and religious sense. Between nine and eleven people were believed to be living in the Hans Herr House. Christian and Anna Herr and their children lived in the house with Hans and Elizabeth Herr.
             The first room one walks into is the kitchen. The first thing that is noticeable is the high cielings, possibly because the smoke created by the fireplace of common houses of the colonial period usually leads to developed hunches on the house members to keep the smoke out of their face. The kitchen is where women spent most of their time as it was mostly a place for them to prepare the food for the men after their hard day of work out in the fields and so on. The table in the center of the kitchen was for food preperation. In contrast with many colonial homes that had just one fire, the Hans Herr House featured 2-3 fires that burned at once. The fire emerged in the back of the fireplace, which was not on the floor, but on a sort of step. The Hans Herr fireplace provided many advantages of safety. Women that wores long skirts and coats were kept safe from getting their clothes on fire and small children were also kept safe because the fire was not on the floor, but above them. In the colonial period,
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