English: 1920 Kramer Music House
Piano and music store opened by Fredrick F. Kramer Sr. A skilled pianist, among the famous pianists of the day with whom he was friendly was Jan Paderewski, the Polish piano great and first prime minister of Poland after World War I, who Kramer persuaded to play at the Lyric Theater, now Miller Symphony Hall. His office wall was covered with autographed photos of the piano giants of his time he had brought to Allentown. After Kramer’s death in 1937, at age 74, his son Frederick Jr. Sold the building and it became the Avondale Dairy, which operated a soda fountain on the first floor. After World War II, the building went though several owners and later became the Empire Beauty School which closed in the 1980s. Today, the building is being refurbished as the assembly88 Men's Clothing Store
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