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Penn's Common
The bandstand in Penn's Common, designed by Reading architect Alexander Forbes Smith and completed in July 1897, was 27 feet in diameter and stood 23 feet high. Notice that the roof supports resembled knights' lances. J.S. Koch was in charge of construction.



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