Decorating Your Home or Business In Allentown
There are great homes with motivated home owners looking to transform their Allentown Victorian, Ranch, Split-Level single family or Condominium into the ideal living space.
Allentown has a mix of old and new homes that provide Love Your Room inspiration and motivation.
Allentown History
Allentown was originally named Northampton town by its founder, Chief Justice of Colonial Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court, William Allen. Allen, also a former Mayor of Philadelphia and successful businessman, drew up plans for the rural village in 1762. Despite its formal name, from the beginning, nearly everyone called it “Allen’s town”. Allen hoped Northampton town would turn into a commercial center because of its location along the Lehigh River. The low water level most of the year, however, made river trade impractical. Sometime in the early 1770s, William Allen apparently gave the property to his son, James, who built a country home called Trout Hall after his father’s hunting and fishing lodge. Even by the time of the American Revolution, Allentown remained little more than a small village of Pennsylvania Dutch, more properly German, farmers and tradesmen, but continued its development as a center of marketing for local farmers from the post revolutionary years into the 1920s. The U.S. Census of 1810 placed it at the heart of the largest grain producing regions in the country.
Top Allentown Interior Design Destinations
- Ebert Furniture
- Kitchens By Design
- Creative Tile Imports
Featured Allentown Decorating Projects
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