Category:Harolds Furniture, Allentown, Pennsylvania

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Harolds Furniture was a long-time store on Hamilton Street in Allentown. It began doing business in 1921 when the Harold Furniture Company of Lancaster PA, owned by Henry W. Israel, expanded his chain of furniture stores in Eastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster, Reading, Lebanon and Philadelphia). Israel bought the furniture interests and inventory of Norton Lichtenwalner's furniture store at 730 Hamilton Street

Israel kept the Lichtenwalner store's name until October 1926 when it changed the name to Harolds Furniture. Harolds subsequently moved to the former Heinz Department Store Buckley Building at 808-810 Hamilton in October 1929. In 1938 the building was extensively remodeled, including a new glass front for better furniture displays. In July 1962 the buisness moved next door to the larger 812-814 Hamilton building. The company sold home furniture for many years until December 1987 when the company dissolved, and the store was subsequently closed.

The property was vacant after the closure for a number of years, finally being placed into the hands of the Allentown Redevelopment Authority in January 1993. Numerous developers proposed plans for the building which ultimatley fell through for one reason or another for over a decade. In August 2005, after a two-year negotiation, the property was aquired by Rich Fegley who turned it into a micro-brewery and restaurant. The Allentown Brew Works opened in July 2007.

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