For too long, he and other local historians had relied heavily on a single source for Allentown history: Roberts et al.’s “History of Lehigh County, Pa., and a Genealogical and Biographical ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A longtime hub for theater lovers in Allentown's West End is being recognized for its historical significance. The Civic Theatre on 19th Street has been added to the National ...

The hospital in Allentown closed in 2010 and was demolished in 2020. Before it passed into history, the shuttered facility was a setting for the 2019 M. Night Shyamalan movie “Glass ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Lehigh County (PA) Historical Society has hosted 1 event in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2010 Speech. Edward Steers, author of several books on Abraham ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - To make way for the new, you have to get rid of the old. At least you do for what would the tallest building in the Lehigh Valley. The Ideal Tower is proposed for 8th and Hamilton ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) – Firefighters are battling a large early-morning blaze at a historic restaurant in Allentown. Dispatchers say the fire broke out at Youell’s Oyster House around 4 a.m ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) – Firefighters are battling a large early-morning blaze at a historic restaurant in Allentown. Dispatchers say the fire broke out at Youell’s Oyster House around 4 a.m ...

Just days after a devastating fire destroyed the historic 1897 building that housed Mulligan’s Brick Bar in the city’s Allentown neighborhood, demolition of the structure began Wednesday morning.