Category:Fairgrounds Hotel, Allentown, Pennsylvania
The Fairgrounds Hotel has its origins in an 1889 structure which was constructed next to the original Allentown Fair beer stand at the southwest corner of Seventeenth and Liberty Streets. After the successful semi centennial fair of 1901, a motion was made to build a new hotel and pavilion on the comer of 17th and Liberty streets.
The current hotel opened in 1904 as a masonry building which remains. In the early decades of the Twentieth Century, it operated as a both a hotel and a restaurant/bar. With the opening of Camp Crane on the Fairgrounds in 1917 when it was leased to the Army the hotel was closed and used as part of the USAAC Ambulance Driver Training.
When reopened in 1918, the hotel resumed its pre-war use as a hotel and restaurant, the hotel ceasing renting rooms about 1933. It became a full-time restaurant and reception hall and was renovated several times. In 1980, Michael "Skip" Germano leased the fairgrounds hotel and bier garden complex at 17th and Liberty streets. That year he restored the hotel to its original Victorian beauty. Attached is a 1922 photo of the hotel..
Media in category "Fairgrounds Hotel, Allentown, Pennsylvania"
The following 28 files are in this category, out of 28 total.
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1904 - Fairgrounds Hotel Opening - 31 Aug MC - Allentown PA.jpg 419 × 111; 21 KB
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1917 - West End Hotel WWI Closure - 1 Oct DEM - Allentown PA.jpg 1,171 × 1,465; 456 KB
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1922 - Fairgrounds Hotel - Allentown PA.jpg 1,900 × 1,068; 382 KB
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1934 - Fairgrounds Hotel Ad - 15 Sep MC - Allentown PA.jpg 961 × 1,186; 206 KB
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1935 - Fairgrounds Hotel - Matchcover.jpg 1,024 × 360; 114 KB
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1944 - Fairgrounds Hotel - Matchcover - Allentown PA.jpg 1,024 × 363; 146 KB
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1950 - Fairgrounds Hotel - 7 May MC - Allentown PA.jpg 941 × 797; 123 KB
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1951 - Fairgrounds Hotel Christmas Matchcover Allentown PA.jpg 947 × 616; 195 KB
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1955 - Fairgrounds Hotel - 15 Jan MC - Allentown PA.jpg 857 × 501; 78 KB
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1955 - Fairgrounds Hotel - 31 Dec MC - Allentown PA.jpg 849 × 877; 129 KB
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1955 - Fairgrounds Hotel Ad - 23 Jul MC - Allentown PA.jpg 877 × 460; 89 KB
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1955 - Fairgrounds Hotel Ad - 26 Aug MC - Allentown PA.jpg 435 × 897; 96 KB
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1955 - Fairgrounds Hotel Matchcover Allentown PA.jpg 1,200 × 591; 168 KB
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1956 - Fairgrounds Hotel Matchcover - Allentown PA.jpg 1,362 × 886; 293 KB
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1957 - Fairgrounds Hotel Ad - 25 Oct MC - Allentown PA.jpg 824 × 1,151; 134 KB
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1961 - Fairgrounds Hotel Matchcover - Allentown PA.jpg 1,000 × 341; 68 KB
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1962 - Fairgrounds Hotel Ad - 4 Mart MC - Allentown PA.jpg 1,259 × 1,038; 234 KB
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1969 - Fairgrounds Hotel Sold - 27 Jun - Allentown PA.jpg 1,214 × 925; 229 KB
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1970 - Fairgrounds Hotel - Renovation 17 Feb - Allentown PA.jpg 416 × 924; 110 KB
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1986 - Fairgrounds Hotel - 11 Jan MC = Allentown PA.jpg 1,614 × 845; 172 KB
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