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H. Leh & Co., typically referred to simply as Leh's, was a department store located at 626 West Hamilton Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was of what was an outside mall structure called the Hamilton Mall in the Center City portion of the city.
When Henry Leh passed in 1910, all of Allentown's stores on Hamilton Street closed on the afternoon of the funeral. The shoe factory which Leh started in 1850 was discontinued in 1911 to make room for expansion. Leh's Department Store was remodeled and expanded into a modern large department store in 1912.
8 sie 2022 · H. Leh & Co. department store was located at 626 West Hamilton Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was an outside structure of the Hamilton Mall. The original building was purchased on April 1880, a massive and beautiful Italianate structure.
30 cze 1996 · After 146 years, the Allentown-based retailer called it quits amid a troubled retail market and tough competition from large discount chains like Kmart and Wal-Mart.
19 maj 1996 · On the bleak winter morning of Jan. 3, 1994, John “Jack” Leh II stood among the easy chairs on the top floor of the downtown Allentown department store that his family had run at that location...
23 lip 2022 · At age 11 in 1841 Leh began working as a canal boy between Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) and New York and Philadelphia, driving the mules for his brother, Jeremiah, that carried canal boat loads...
Leh's - Allentown. 626 Hamilton St; the former H. Leh department store, one of the two competing stores in center city Allentown (the other being the now-demolished Hess's at 829 Hamilton).
