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Category: Pagoda

Pagoda Lion Heads – On this Day | Oct 8th 1971

Posted on October 8, 2020October 8, 2020

Pagoda’s Lion Heads Removed & Replaced

Reading Pagoda Lion Heads
Nicholas G. Bauer, shop foreman for Electric Maintenance and Repair Co., shows lion and dragon heads removed from the turned-up points on the roofs of the Pagoda. New lions will replace the old ones. – Eagle Photo
Reading Pagoda Lion Heads
Reading Pagoda Lion Heads
Reading Pagoda Lion Heads

In Oct 1971 the 20 original stone lion and dragon heads were removed from the roof of the Pagoda.… Read Full Article

The Pagoda’s Outbuilding

Posted on April 5, 2018July 6, 2020

Completed in 1908 at a cost of $50,000, this pagoda was intended to be the hotel/restaurant centerpiece of a luxury resort. When plans for the rest of the resort were abandoned, the 7-story wooden building on 10 acres of land was donated to Reading in 1911. It is now part of the Mount Penn Reserve, 1,595 acres of municipally-owned land. – Source

The Pagoda's Outbuilding

There was originally another building built just down from the Pagoda in the same style, and was know as an “Outbuilding”.… Read Full Article

Berks County Christmas – Day 24 – Blinking Pagoda

Posted on December 24, 2017December 20, 2017

Merry Christmas Eve! When I was a child, I was always told to look to the Pagoda on Christmas Eve, and when it blinked, Santa was spotted nearby. That marked bedtime on Christmas Eve for countless children over the decades.

Blinking Pagoda

According to this WFMZ article,

Children in Reading and throughout Berks County will be looking up at the sky on Christmas Eve in anticipation of St.

… Read Full Article

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