LMGI COMPASS
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Winter 2026
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Aaron Hurvitz/LMGI
At the end of our first night, we were invited for dinner and hors
d'oeuvres at a few houses in the Centre Park Historic District
of Reading. The neighborhood is a collection of Queen Anne,
Gothic Revival and Victorian Romanesque homes from the turn
of the century. The buildings are kept in pristine condition by
the diligence of the Centre Park Historic District Inc. The houses
were built by a hodgepodge of Reading's well-to-do families—
textile magnates, merchants, railroad employees and industrial
workers. They sit adjacent to Centre Park, home to the annual
Easter egg hunt and the neighborhood's Halloween and Fourth
of July celebrations.
I hung back in our minibus briefly as our group filed into the first
house, admiring the Queen Anne architecture. Terry, our driver,
turned to me and said his dad used to work in these houses,
making deliveries mostly. "All of these houses were filled with
big families back then, and the parks were full of kids playing all
day, and Moms wearing dressy dresses walking with strollers. It
was a sight. They need to do a movie about that." I nodded. "Yes,
they need to do movies about lots of things. It gets done slowly,
but beautiful buildings make it a lot easier. There's a story
everywhere."
For more information on filming in Reading, PA, please visit:
https://readingfilm.org/
For more images from the Fam Tour, please visit https://
locationmanagers.org/
