{"id":300476,"date":"2026-10-06T00:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T00:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300476\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T00:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T00:22:06","slug":"inside-the-reading-pagoda-abc7-new-york-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300476\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Reading Pagoda &#8211; ABC7 New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, October 5, 2026 7:59PM<\/p>\n<p>The Reading Pagoda has been a landmark in Reading, Pennsylvania for more than a century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Reading, Pa &#8212; Reading&#8217;s Pagoda just completed an extensive renovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It has been a landmark in the area for more than a century, and now a foundation is set to ensure it remains a beacon for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Pagoda was originally &#8220;completed in 1908 by a man named William Abbot Whitman.&#8221; Explains Alexa Freyman, President of The Pagoda Foundation. &#8220;He saw Nagoya Castle in Japan and wanted to make a structure modeling it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Pagoda is set on 10 acres in historic Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, October 5, 2026 7:59PM The Reading Pagoda has been a landmark in Reading, Pennsylvania for more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,245,98226,123744,123743,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-300476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-evergreen","tag-landmark","tag-nagoya-castle","tag-rading-pagoda","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}