Buildings and architecture of Allentown, Pennsylvania

West Park neighborhood also offers a tour of this district's larger Victorian and American Craftsman-style homes.

[1] The oldest standing structure in Allentown is Trout Hall, built in 1770 by James Hamilton, son-in-law of William Allen, the city's founder.

Zion's Reformed United Church of Christ, founded in 1762, is located at 620 West Hamilton Street.

Zion's current building, a neo-gothic[2] structure built in the 1880s, hosts a sanctuary representing a high point in 19th-century church architecture, with stained glass art windows on all four walls interweaving biblical symbols with a floral motif, symbolizing the flowering of the new out of the old.

The West End neighborhood, which runs roughly from 15th Street to Cedar Crest Boulevard, is famous for both its brick twin styles closer to center city and large homes, including the Hess Mansion, which is located in the city's west-end.

In December 2011, J.B. Reilly,[5] Alvin H. Butz[6] and other developers announced a series of new plans designed to bring service-based companies and white-collar workers back to the city while taking advantage of a special tax zone created for the construction of the new PPL Center at 7th and Hamilton streets.