Category:Liechtenstein House, Allentown, Pennsylvania

The Liechtenstein House restaurant, was located at 446 N Tenth street in Allentown. The business, however, dated back to at least the 1890s when G. P. Schumacher opened the Pioneer Hotel there. The original hotel was basically a saloon with rooms upstairs for nightly rental. It went though a series of owners in the early 1900s, and was renovated in 1900. It was interestingly, a polling place for elections beginning in 1898. The hotel was closed in 1917 by the United States Army due to its proximity to Camp Crane at the Allentown Fairgrounds. In 1918 it was reopened, however in 1920, the saloon part of the hotel was closed due to Prohibition and the Volstead Act. It was taken over by Andrew Tallman, the brother of Oscar Tallman who had operated a saloon/restaurant on Hamilton Street which was closed also by Prohibition.

During the years of Prohibition, Andrew Tallman operated the Pioneer Hotel as a restaurant/apartment house. In 1933, with the repeal of Prohibition, Tallman renovated again to accommodate a taproom along with the restaurant along with place for a band to perform along with dancing. Tallman operated the hotel until he retired in 1951. Tallman passed in August 1958. He sold it to Herbert Fries, who ran it as the Pioneer Hotel until his death in 1967.

The facility was subsequently sold, and reopened as the Lichtenstein House in December 1968 which was open until 1975. It then became a series of restaurants, none of which was open for more than a year or so. Today the former restaurant/bar is called the Liberty Food Market, a convenience store. The apartments which Andrew Tallman created upstairs are still being rented.