{"nrhp_refnum":"92000396","name":"Schlicher, George F., Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"105--107 S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alburtis","county":"Lehigh County","state":"PA","lat":40.512091629000054,"lon":-75.60296349299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-05-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-and-a-half-story brick hotel with a frame addition at 105-107 South Main Street in the borough of Alburtis, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1877 near the railroad depot and was later converted into apartments in 1944.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hotel is significant in commerce and architecture. It is presented as a prime example of late Victorian design, with a large wraparound porch and decorative woodwork, and as the most important commercial building in the early town centre. It also served as the principal hotel near the railroad and the Lockridge Furnaces.","narrative":"Built in 1877 beside the railroad depot in Alburtis, Lehigh County, the Schlicher Hotel is a three-and-a-half-story brick building with a frame addition on the west side. Its late Victorian character is shown by a wraparound covered porch about 90 feet long, elaborate porch arches, gingerbread woodwork above the windows, hand-made porch spindles, and scrolled wooden brackets under the cornices. George F. Schlicher and John S. Saul bought the site in August 1877, and the hotel served travelers arriving by train. It also had the largest restaurant and the only banquet and meeting rooms in the borough, and it housed workers from the nearby Lockridge Furnaces. The hotel's bar and restaurant ran until the early 1930s. In 1944 the interior was gutted and the building was divided into apartments. The exterior is regarded as one of the most notable Victorian hotel fronts in Lehigh and Northampton counties.","period_of_significance":"1877-1941","architect_builder":"George F. Schlicher (builder/owner, as stated in the Statement of Significance)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Converted into apartments in 1944; exterior described as retaining its original integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.306904-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/92000396.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000396/f53b474253-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000396/f53b474253-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"PattiParker","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_F._Schlicher_Hotel.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">PattiParker</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_F._Schlicher_Hotel.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994457","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F._Schlicher_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5539141"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lehigh-county/schlicher-george-f-hotel-92000396/"}