Updike, John, Childhood Home

117 Philadelphia Ave., Shillington, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Berks.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 22, 2019. NRIS 100003635.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Shilling House

From Wikipedia:

John Updike Childhood Home

The John Updike Childhood Home is the childhood home of American novelist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Updike, who lived there with his father Wesley Russell Updike and mother Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, who was also a writer. The home is located in Shillington, Pennsylvania, a suburb of the City of Reading.

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