File:Hotel Bethlehem, Main Street, Bethlehem, PA - 52410208300.jpg

English: Completed in 1922, this Beaux Arts-style hotel replaced the earlier Golden Eagle Hotel, later the Eagle Hotel, which had operated on the same site since 1822, and was located in a building constructed as a general store in 1794, which was heavily renovated in the Second Empire style in the 1870s. The hotel was constructed by The Bethlehem Hotel Corporation starting in 1921, utilizing funding from multiple investors whom were heavily involved with Bethlehem Steel, seeking to improve the city with a modern hotel to replace the antiquated Eagle Hotel. The 11-story building features a brown wire brick exterior, low-slope roofs with brick parapets, stone trim consisting of sills, keystones, cartouches, and decorative panels between windows on the top floor, a cornice with modillions, large multi-story arched windows on the first and second floors, a stone base, a metal canopy over the front entrance, and replacement windows. The interior of the hotel features a large lobby with massive arched windows, an old solarium, now a restaurant, with Moravian tile, and intact historic ballrooms with Classical detailing. The hotel suffered a major fire in 1989 that killed 4 people, and stood vacant through the late 1990s, before being heavily renovated and reopened as a hotel, which has remained a viable and popular enterprise. The hotel is a contributing structure in the Central Bethlehem Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and expanded to include additional buildings in 1988.