File:1911 - Lafayette Hotel.jpg
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English: The Lafayette Hotel at 133-137 N. 7th Street in Allentown. The oldest hotel in the city, its roots went back to 1809 when it opened as the Black Horse Tavern. Its heyday was in the Victorian era as a simple place, popular with farmers and traveling salesmen.
In a burst of entrepreneurial enthusiasm for the Lafayette's 100th anniversary in 1909, the hotel's owners, brothers Elmer and George Guth, added two stories to the three story building. Although their names were still on the Lafayette's side in 1926, they had sold it in 1924 to businessman Louis Genovese and W.D. Cassone. The hotel was gutted by a general alarm fire on January 23, 1926. Thirteen guests had died. Some were so badly burned that relatives had to use dental records to identify them. Thirty-nine were injured, some of them with wounds so severe they never really recovered. |
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