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PHOTO GALLERY: Historic photos of Allentown’s post office at Fifth and Hamilton streets, which opened in 1934. The art deco building replaced the old post office at Sixth and Turner streets.
The photos were copied from images in the hospital’s own archives, the historical photo collection of Allentown’s Matthew Brown, the Raymond E. Holland Historical and Industrial History ...
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - The Pennsylvania Museum and Historical Commission has awarded the former Allentown State Hospital an official State Historical Marker. The designation honors the hospital's 100 ...
The historic Americus Hotel is back ... In 1972, it hosted President Richard Nixon while he was visiting Allentown. But it closed its doors in the 1990s. In 2009, Whitehall resident Albert ...
The distinctive main building of Allentown State Hospital, a site eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, is all but a memory. Demolition crews on Wednesday removed huge chunks of ...
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - To make way for the new ... according to the City's Historical Architectural Review Board. 801 Hamilton, a five-story masonry building, was constructed in 1902.
In the not-too-distant future, visitors going to downtown Allentown on Hamilton Street will pass through a gateway arch just before being greeted by the replica of a historic sculpture that ...
A group of parishioners in the Diocese of Allentown, Pennsylvania, is celebrating this month after acquiring a historic church from the diocese and preserving it as a chapel and place of worship.