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Allen Park, located in the vicinity of Trout Hall, was the first city park in Allentown, although it did not become city property until 1908. [1] A 6.59-acre (26,700 m 2) park in what was a community trash pit and sandlot baseball field became Allen Park, the city's first public park [2] established in an upscale area of the city.
The Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley is an art museum located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. [2] It was founded in 1934 by a group organized by Walter Emerson Baum, a Pennsylvania impressionist painter. The museum maintains a collection of over 19,000 works of art and is a major regional art institution.
Sandbox, c. 1900 Park entrance, c. 1910. Central Park's origins date back to 1868, when J. Frank Reichart laid out a race course north of the Allentown-Bethlehem Turnpike at present-day Hanover Avenue in Allentown, Pennsylvania, which opened for trotting and pacing from May to August. In 1872, the Rittersville Park Association was organized.
Starting point of the Allentown Arts Walk across from the Allentown Art Museum, now home to a duo of monumental bronze statues by the academic painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme, "Metallurgical Worker" and "Metallurgical Science" (1903) celebrating steel workers and the steel era. Allentown City Hall (1962) 435 W. Hamilton Street
Mayfair Festival of the Arts is a multidisciplinary arts festival, [2] including visual arts, performing arts, garden arts, children's art, and art education, held annually in May on the campus of Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. [3] [4]
Palmer Museum of Art: University Park: Centre: Central PA: Art: Part of Penn State University, collection includes American and European art, contemporary European and Japanese studio ceramics, Asian art, objects from ancient European, African, and Near Eastern cultures Palmerton Area Heritage Center: State College: Centre: Central PA: Local ...
Phillip was the chairman of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Muriel was an honorary member of the board. They endowed many Jewish charities including Hadassah as well commissioning and funding the "Philip and Muriel Berman sculpture park" in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where they resided.
Allentown, the largest city in the Lehigh Valley, third-largest city in Pennsylvania, and county seat of Lehigh County, in May 2010. The culture of Allentown, Pennsylvania dates back to the early 18th century settlement of the city and the surrounding Lehigh Valley, which was then part of the Province of Pennsylvania, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, by German immigrants almost ...