Reading, Pennsylvania

The Skew Arch Bridge in Reading, Pennsylvania, also known as the Askew Bridge and nicknamed the Soap and Whiskey Bridge, is an historic skew arch bridge that was completed in 1857. Its design enabled it to carry two tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad (P&R) at an angle over Sixth Street in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.This bridge was acquired by Conrail after the P&R's demise in 1976 and was transferred to Norfolk Southern Railway in 1999.

Reading Depot, commonly referred to as Reading outer station, was a train station in Reading, Pennsylvania, that served as a major hub between Philadelphia and Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Built in 1874, the station closed on March 16, 1969; this was following the discontinuance of the last medium distance route to pass through the city, the Reading Railway's Queen of the Valley (Harrisburg–Jersey City). It was destroyed by fire on February 20, 1978.The station was one of two in Reading, the other being Franklin Street station.

The Medical Arts Building in Reading, Pennsylvania is located at 230 North Fifth Street and was designed by Frederick A. Muhlenberg founder of Muhlenberg Greene Architects.Built in 1930, the Medical Arts Building was developed and owned by the Reading Medical Arts Building Corporation. The board members of the corporation included architect Frederick A. Muhlenberg, who served as President of the Board. The building was constructed at a cost of, approximately, $500,000, and the project created employment for many during the Great Depression.When completed, the 10-story building contained 55 offices, a pharmacy on the first floor, and a coffee shop located in the basement. The Medical Arts Building was the first building in Reading to have a penthouse space. The penthouse contained a kitchen, lounge and fireplace, and the space served as a club house for the building's tenants. Another feature of the building, which was not typical for office buildings of the time, had the rest rooms for men and women located on each floor of the building.Mr. Muhlenberg eventually moved his architecture practice to the Medical Arts Building where the firm remained until 1972. The Medical Arts Building is still open and occupied.

The Santander Performing Arts Center (formerly known as the Rajah Theatre or Rajah Temple, and Sovereign Performing Arts Center) is a historic theatre in Reading, Pennsylvania. It is the current home of the Reading Symphony Orchestra and the "Broadway on 6th St" annual series of musicals and plays.

The Reading Knitting Mills is an historic, American factory building that is located in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

The Red Men Hall, later known as Century Hall, is a historic four-story building located in Reading, Pennsylvania.

The Hotel Abraham Lincoln is a historic building and former hotel in downtown Reading, Pennsylvania. Opened on May 23, 1930, the Lincoln was one of Reading's original nine grand hotels. The hotel was the last of the grand hotels to cease operations, doing so on November 1, 2016.The plans for the hotel were devised by the Reading Hotel Corporation in September 1928. William A. Sharp, vice president of the organization, was placed in charge of building the new hotel. New York architect William Lee Stoddart was hired to design the building, and the Honkin-Conkey Construction Company of Cleveland won the contract to build the hotel. Approximately $2 million was spent on the hotel prior to opening, with roughly half the cost going towards the construction of the building.A public contest was held to determine the name of the building, and the name of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president, was selected. Part of the reasoning behind naming the building after the former president was due to the Lincoln family's connections to the Reading area, with Lincoln's grandfather, Captain Abraham Lincoln, having been born in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania pioneer Conrad Weiser was runner-up for the hotel's name.The Abraham Lincoln hotel was opened to the public with a weekend of activities that began on Friday, May 23, 1930. According to the Reading Times, the opening events were notably devoid of speeches, instead being opened "with fox trots and clapping of hands and murmurs of delight" that were characteristic of ceremonies from the Roaring Twenties, despite the hotel opening seven months after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 that signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. Upon opening, the hotel contained 300 rooms across 16 stories, making it one of the tallest buildings in the city. Guests could stay at the hotel for as low as $2.50 a night.The hotel is known for being the place where famous American composer and conductor John Philip Sousa died after suffering from heart failure in his hotel room on March 6, 1932. He had conducted a rehearsal of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" the previous day with the Reading's Ringgold Band as its guest conductor. The hotel was also the site of a visit from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who spoke from a balcony in the Lincoln's lobby. The Lincoln hotel is also the site that The Fabulous Moolah wrote in her autobiography that Andre the Giant drank 127 beers in a Reading, Pennsylvania, hotel bar and later passed out in the lobby. The staff could not move him and had to leave him there until he awoke. After facing financial difficulties in the 1980s, the hotel was closed for nearly a decade. When the building went under new ownership, it was renovated to "recapture the look the Lincoln had when it first opened" and was reopened in 1997. Around this time, several floors of the building were converted into apartments, with only 104 hotel rooms remaining. The hotel operated under the Wyndham Hotel Group until 2013.The Hotel Abraham Lincoln was briefly the city of Reading's only major hotel until the opening of the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Reading nearby. Within a year of the new DoubleTree opening, the Hotel Abraham Lincoln ceased operations on November 1, 2016, citing competition from the DoubleTree. The remaining 104 rooms were converted into around 50 apartments.The building was renovated in 2018 and is now used to house the Lincoln Tower Apartments, containing 97 luxury one and two bedroom apartments. Abe's Restaurant, along with a catering and wedding venue, remained on the lower levels.The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 21, 2017.

Trinity Lutheran Church is an historic, American Lutheran church that is located at 6th and Washington Streets in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

The Livingood House-Stryker Hospital is an historic, American building that is located in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

The Berks County Trust Company is a historic building in downtown Reading, Pennsylvania. Originally constructed in 1909, the six-story building was home to a bank known as the Berks County Trust Company and was the second largest bank branch in Berks County. The building still contains the original 1909 bank vault from the York Safe and Lock Company used by the building's eponymous bank. The building had additions built onto it in 1923, 1964 and 1984.The building was later used to house the Meridian Bancorp Inc., which controlled 36 percent of the Berks County banking market and $11.8 billion in assets across the region at the start of the 1990s. However, leading into the turn of the century, the local economy of Reading began to decline and Meridian Bancorp began adding millions of dollars into its bad-debt reserves, in addition to selling its credit card, indirect auto-loan and title-insurance businesses. The building was vacated in the early 2010s, likely due to a greater amount of financial difficulties stemming from the Great Recession which greatly impacted the already economically declining city.The building was purchased in 2018 by the Shuman Development Group with approval from the Reading City Council. The organization began a major renovation and restoration project that was overseen by the National Park Service. In 2021, the restoration project received a $250,000 tax credit allocation and $11,000,000 in estimated construction expenditures from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. The restoration project seeks to convert the building into an office building with a food court in the main banking hall.The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 27, 2019.

Major General David McMurtrie Gregg is a monumental statue located in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. The monument was designed by Henry Augustus Lukeman and consists of an equestrian statue depicting David McMurtrie Gregg, a military officer who had served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The monument was dedicated in 1922, several years after Gregg's death in Reading in 1916.

Christ Episcopal Church, founded in 1763, is the oldest, English-speaking, religious congregation in Reading, Pennsylvania. The church is located on the northwest corner of Fifth and Court Streets. Its nave was built c. 1826.Its church ledgers have recorded the membership of multiple prominent Pennsylvanians, including De Benneville Randolph Keim, a nineteenth-century journalist who served as an advisor to Ulysses S. Grant, the commanding general of the Union Army during the American Civil War, and David McMurtrie Gregg, an American Civil War-era major general who won fame for gallantry during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.