Category:Keystone Trail Inn, Allentown, Pennsylvania
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The Lily Grill Sushi Restraunt is located at 1908 Walbert Avenue (North 19th and Roth Avenue), just outside the city limits of Allentown. It serves primarily Asian cuisine and it opened in October 2013.
The location, however is quite historic, as an inn or a hotel was first built at the site a little over 200 years ago. It began as Albright's Hotel, being opened in 1820. Albright's was a stop on the road that began on Liberty Street and the Allentown western city limits. The road turned to the north at would eventually become 19th street. Albrights Hotel would be at the top of the long hill. The road was known as the "Keystone Trail".
Albright's was known as an inn, hotel, a place to eat, rest the horses, a stop for stagecoaches, and generally a break stop for travellers on the way to northeast Pennsylvania. A colonial-style structure, from the Hotel, the road would turn to the northwest, out what would become Walbert Avenue and head toward's Guthsville. Then the road would head north up towards Orfield and Schnecksville and points north up to the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton area. After 1922, this would designated as route 309; parts of it remain designated that today.
In November 1922, Harry F Beidelman, an experienced hotelier purchaced the old hotel and renamed it the Keystone Trail Inn, after the name of the road. Biedelman renovated the property and had a sign erected which said "meals at all hours". The inn specalized in seafood, but also served Pennsylvania Dutch food, as well as fully cooked breakfasts. Besides the restraunt, it had a dance hall and also rooms for overnight stays. As this was also the dawn of large numbers of automobiles on the roads, a Pennico gas station was located directly accoss the street at the corner of 19th Street and Roth Avenue (a modern gas station still operates there today). The Keystone Trail Inn operated for the next 40 years, eventually closing in 1961. Twice, in March 1948 and August 1957, the building was serverely damaged by fires and was rebuilt.
After some short-lived buisnesses, and another major fire in April 1965, the facility reopened as the Roundtable Banquet Hall. A commercial restraunt as well as a banquet facility for large gatherings and buisness functions. It operated for about 20 years, closing in 1987.
It then went through several owners and various restraunts and club names until 2001, when it became Charlie Brown's Steakhouse. It again closed in 2010 and reopened as the current Asian restraunt in 2013.
Names of the hotel/buisness over the yers
- Charlie Browns Steakhouse 2001-2010
- Villa Romana Ristorante 1998-2000
- Porterhouse Pub 1996-1998
- Vacant 1993-1998
- Triples Nightclub 1991-1993
- O'Tooles Bar & Grill 1989-1991
- Vincent's Restorante 1987-1989
- Sammy Malones 1987
- Roundtable Banquet Hall 1968-1987
- Continental Restaurant 1964-1965
- Villa Capri 1961
- Keystone Trail Inn 1922-1961
- Albrights Hotel 1820-1922
Media in category "Keystone Trail Inn, Allentown, Pennsylvania"
The following 42 files are in this category, out of 42 total.
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1922 - Keystone Trail Inn Opening - 14 Sep MC - Allentown PA.jpg 1,706 × 975; 296 KB
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1968 - Roundtable - 28 Dec MC - Allentown PA.jpg 781 × 705; 110 KB
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1985 - Roundtable - 24 Aug MC - Allentown PA.jpg 1,816 × 1,541; 374 KB
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1987 - Sammy Malones - 27 Oct MC - Allentown PA.jpg 719 × 843; 109 KB