It's amazing what you can do once you let some new light shine in on a very old place.
"Once we get the windows opened up again and get this fully restored, this is one of the premier wedding spaces for Berks County," said Alan Shuman, president of Reading-based Shuman Development Group.
The post-Civil War-era Trexler Mansion, then turned into the Elks Lodge, then taken over by a nonprofit, is now owned by Shuman, who is looking to bring back to life the sprawling space, neighboring the library on South Fifth Street.
"This altogether is gonna come in somewhere between $4 (million) and $6 million to restore this," Shuman explained. "We already had the historic tax credit people here. It's a historic building."
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