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This district encompasses thirty-five contributing, vernacular, industrial buildings that were built roughly between 1899 and 1947, including the original manufacturing plant for Alcoa, which produced a wide range of aluminum products, such as kitchen utensils, rods, bars, wire, tubing, sheet foil, automobile parts, bronze powder, industrial chemical utensils, and beer barrels.
Mount Airy Historic District, also known as Mount Airy Park, is a national historic district located at Bethlehem, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 27 contributing buildings in a residential area of Bethlehem. It includes large, ornate residences built between 1910 and 1930. A few date as early as 1895. [2]
Logans Ferry Powder Works Historic District is a historic district in Plum, Pennsylvania. These powder works were started in 1918, and they produced explosive bronze-aluminum powder for use in fireworks and other explosives and pigments for Alcoa. The works were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 7, 1998.
The two parties that were interested in buying the three churches were Lehigh University and the municipal government of Bethlehem. The city's effort, spearheaded by mayor J. William Reynolds, sought to purchase, and then demolish the churches and turn them into parking lots for the Bethlehem Parking authority. Despite the $3.75 million offer ...
Hanover Township is a township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.As of the 2010 census, the township had a population of 1,571. [2] It is a suburb of Allentown and Bethlehem and part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
The Sun Inn received its first license from King George III. The original part of the building was built in 1758 as a 66-by-40-foot (20 by 12 m), two-story, stone building with a mansard roof.
The Miller's House was one of the early private, family homes and the first separate residence for the master of a trade constructed after the end of Bethlehem's General Economy in the 1760s. Situated adjacent to the Luckenbach Mill, which was erected in 1869, the home allowed the miller to live close to the mill, where he was responsible for ...
By 1941, the Pembroke project was finished and contained 202 units of low-income public housing and it was the first such project in the city. By the early 1950s, the Bethlehem Housing Authority purchased additional adjoining lands, including an 86-acre (350,000 m 2 ) farm to build additional affordable housing in the area.