Weona Park Carousel | |
Location: | PA 512, Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania |
Coordinates: | 40.8708°N -75.2486°W |
Built: | 1923 |
Builder: | Dentzel, William H.; et al. |
Architecture: | stationary menagerie carousel |
Added: | August 4, 1999 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 99000879 |
Weona Park Carousel, also known as Dentzel Stationary Menagerie Carousel, is a historic carousel located at Pen Argyl, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The carousel and its pavilion were built in 1923. The carousel is housed in a wooden, one story, pavilion measuring 20 feet high at center and 80 feet in diameter, with 24 sections each 10 feet 6 inches wide. The carousel has 44 animals and 2 sleighs standing three abreast. They were originally hand carved and painted in the 1890s, c. 1905, and c. 1917. The carousel has a Wurlitzer organ, opus 146. It was constructed by the Dentzel Carousel Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.