Category:Acorn Hotel, Allentown, Pennsylvania

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Early 20th Century hotel built in 1910. Initially catered to farmers, cattle drivers and auctioneers who came to Allentown to do business at the Allentown Horse Exchange and Bazaar. Behind the Acorn, the Horse Exchange flourished from the late 1800s to 1925. Later served industrial Allentown during the city's manufacturing era of the mid 20th Century. With the end of most of the industry in the Little Lehigh Creek basin, the Acorn's clientele dwindled and was basically derelict by the 1970s. Renovated in the 1980s into a music and dance facility, was unsuccessful and was closed about 1995.

Building remains with old sign on front, however its current status is undetermined