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Reading's City Park is home to several monuments and works of public art, including the Frederick Lauer Monument. Another fixture in Reading's skyline is the William Penn Memorial Fire Tower, one mile from the Pagoda on Skyline Drive. Built in 1939 for fire department and forestry observation, the tower is 120 feet tall, and rises 950 feet ...
The tower on Mount Penn in 2023. The tower is located at 2500 Skyline Drive in the Mount Penn Preserve of Lower Alsace Township, Pennsylvania. [1] Located near the summit of Mount Penn at 1,239 ft (378 m) above sea level, [1] [2] the tower offers a 60-mile (97 km) radius view of the surrounding area, which, in addition to the nearby city of Reading, includes the Blue Mountain, the Delaware ...
Court Street in downtown Reading, with the Pagoda in the background The Pagoda is 28 feet (8.5 m) wide, 50 feet (15 m) long, and 72 feet (22 m) tall. Perched on the edge of a cliff, 620 feet (190 m) above the city and 886 feet (270 m) above sea level, [ 3 ] it offers a 30-mile (48 km) panoramic view of the city and the surrounding countryside.
Excluding buildings in these two cities, the tallest buildings elsewhere in the state are Scranton Times Tower in Scranton, PA at 385 ft (117 m)- although this is a radio tower atop a 5-story structure, 333 Market Street in Harrisburg at 341 ft (104 m), Martin Tower (recently demolished) in Bethlehem at 332 ft (101 m), PPL Building in Allentown ...
Pennsylvania Route 61 (PA 61) is an 81.8-mile-long (131.6 km) state highway that is located in Pennsylvania in the United States. The route is signed north-south despite running in a northwest-southeast direction from U.S. Route 222 Business (US 222 Bus.) in Reading to US 11/US 15/PA 147 in Shamokin Dam.
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PA 724 westbound past its eastern terminus at PA 23 in East Pikeland Township. When routes were first legislated in Pennsylvania in 1911, what is now PA 724 was designated as part of Legislative Route 147 between east of Reading and North Coventry Township and as part of Legislative Route 201 between North Coventry Township and Phoenixville. [5]
Pennsylvania Route 183 Truck (PA 183 Truck) is a 1.6-mile-long (2.6 km) truck route of PA 183 that bypasses a low-clearance bridge under the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad in Cressona. The truck route follows Wilder Street north and curves to the northwest out of Cressona into North Manheim Township.