History & local legend
A house built in 1858 for Cyrus Stover and his wife, Anna Bunstein, later became a Riegelsville office building. Stover died during the Civil War. Much later, Jeff Wargo described an evening there in 1996, after a couple had left a meeting about their wedding.
Wargo heard the screen door open and footsteps enter the reception area, but found no visitor when he looked. Then a clock radio began producing music and static. When he mentioned the episode afterward, the owner told him that the radio had not worked for about twenty years.
Sources
- Rev. Jeffrey Wargo, Alarming Office Behavior, author’s own excerpt from Ghosts in the Ville
- Beliefnet, 2005 interview with Wargo distinguishing the Stover house office from his separate stone parsonage
- St. John UCC, congregation’s history of buying Stover’s home in 1866 and the separate 1887 parsonage
- J. D. Scott, 1876 Bucks County atlas, p. 94, borough inset placing the Reformed parsonage directly north of St. John’s
- Historic property listing explicitly identifies the Stover House at 635 Easton Road
- B. F. Fackenthal Jr., 1911 congregation history, first parsonage plate
