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Old Allentown Historic District (8th through 12th Streets east to west and Linden through Liberty Streets south to north) The Old Allentown Historic District was established on September 6, 1978, by City Ordinance #12314 and was certified by the Pennsylvania State Historical and Museum Commission on September 26, 1978.
Pages in category "Streets in Allentown, Pennsylvania" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The store operated successfully for decades, and was the first of the Allentown department stores to open a branch at Whitehall Mall in Whitehall Township, an Allentown suburb, in 1966. In 1970, Donald Vollmer, then president of the store, purchased Bears Department Store in York, Pennsylvania and renamed it Zollinger-Harned, making it the ...
Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. [9] It is the third-most populous city in Pennsylvania with a population of 125,845 as of the 2020 census and the most populous city in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area ...
Albertus L. Meyers Bridge (in foreground) and the skyline of Center City Allentown, including the PPL Building (in background), in May 2007 Entrance to the PPL Center (on left) at 701 Hamilton Street in Center City Allentown in October 2018 The 24-story PPL Building, Center City Allentown's tallest building, at 2 North 9th Street in January 2007 Allentown Art Museum on North 5th Street in ...
The street dates back to 1762, when Allentown's founder, William Allen, included it as one of the first of several streets to be constructed in the city. [ 1 ] The street is named for James Hamilton , who served as the mayor of Philadelphia from 1745 to 1746 and two terms as deputy governor of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania from 1759 ...
Lehigh Parkway, the largest park in Allentown, built during the 1930s as a Works Progress Administration project, in 2012 Cedar Creek Park in west-side Allentown in 2019 Franklin Park at 218 N. 14th Street in 2021. Allentown, Pennsylvania is nationally-known for its park system.
Tilghman Street Bridge (1,660 feet in length) and Hamilton Street Bridge (315 feet in length) to the south are the other links between the eastern and western parts of the city. The Tilghman Street bridge was constructed in 1929, and the current Hamilton Street bridge was opened to traffic in 1959, and rebuilt and re-opened on June 19, 1973.