On your left is the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts, tucked into three mid-1800s homes that were later stitched together like adjoining rowhouse secrets. Step close and you can almost picture the parlor lights glowing through old glass... the kind of place where everything has a story, and some of it probably cost more than a year’s wages.
This museum exists because of Annie S. Kemerer, a private, intensely focused collector who quietly packed her life with antiques, furniture, paintings, and all sorts of beautiful objects. When she died in 1951, she left Bethlehem her collection and about $300,000... which is roughly $3.5 million today. That gift helped launch a museum association in 1954, and by then, her “personal obsession” had become the public’s treasure. Not a bad legacy for someone who liked to keep to herself.
When you’re set, the Single Sisters' House is a 3-minute walk heading south.
