north Fourth Street

	401 Northampton Street: Modern Commercial Bldg. - Known as the "Bixler Building" in accordance with an inscription on the building's exterior, it was previously known as the Pomp Building. Small 4-story, white brick, dental roof cornice...more detail on 401 northampton
	14-16 North Fourth Street: Residence
	26 North Fourth Street: Row House
	Alley
	18-20 North Fourth Street: W Graphics shop
	22-24 north Fourth Street: Weygandt Building - The underlying real estate parcel is a small rectangle of land that cuts across portions of Original Town Lot Nos.217 and 218, as surveyed by William Parsons when Easton was formed in 1752. These two Original Town Lots were later carved up into smaller real estate parcels, including the Weygandt parcel that is the subject of this entry (see below). William Parsons reserved all of Original Town Lot Nos.217 and 218 for his own use. He initially built his personal residence there, on a portion closer to Northampton Street that is now apparently part of the Pomp / Bixler Building (401 Northampton Street). This Parsons residence “was probably the first house built in Easton after the erection of Northampton County in 1752.” ...more detail on 22-24 no. 4th st. the beautifully renovated 1st floor of this building is now available for lease! bring your business.
	22-24 North Fourth Street: Store
	26 North Fourth Street: Store
Northampton St. to	Church St: East Side
	11 North Fourth Street: Hotel Lafayette - Originally a frontier home and tavern, owned by one Jacob Hoffman, may have occupied the north part of this site in 1728, well before the town of Easton was founded. The first well in Easton was built on this site in 1752. A stone house and tavern was built on the site in 1754. During the French and Indian War, Adam Yohe first leased and (in 1757) purchased the land, and built the Red Lion Tavern at the corner of Northampton St., which became Easton's principal inn. It was also known as Adam Yohe's Hotel (not to be confused with Adam Yohe's Inn, on the opposite corner). Pennsylvania Governor Morris used it as his residence during the Indian Conference of 1756; Delaware Chief Teedyuscung sometimes drank here during the Indian Conference of 1758 ...more detail on 11 no. 4th street.
Church St. to Spring	Garden St.: West Side
	30-56 North Fourth Street: Express Bldg - Built in 1923 as the headquarters of the Easton Express (now the Express-Times), Easton’s oldest successful daily newspaper, which has absorbed its principal predecessors over the years. The Express was first published in 1855, at another location ...more detail on 30 no. 4th st.
	60 North Fourth Street: Residence
	64 North Fourth Street: Dr. Laub's practice -This was the home and medical practice of Dr. Irene F. Laub beginning in 1927. Dr. Laub added front door grillwork from St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church building next door (at 70 North Fourth Street)... more detail on 64 n. 4th street.
	70 North Fourth Street: Parking Lot - This Lutheran congregation was formed in 1868, as an offshoot of Christ Lutheran Church. The church building at 70 North Fourth Street was built in 1870, and was occupied by the congregation (with a small name change in 1956) until 1965, when it moved to a new church building on Newberg Road... more detail on 70 n. 4th street.
	74-76 North Fourth Street: Apartments
	78-80 North Fourth Street: Apartments
	82 North Fourth Street: Residence
	84 North Fourth Street: William Ricker Residence - In the 1870s, home of William Ricker, carpenter, at an extensive property at this corner location stretching along Spring Garden Street from North Fourth Street all the way to Mt. Jefferson. The property was listed as 48 North Fourth Street under the street numbering scheme then in effect...more detail on 84 no. 4th st.
Church St to Spring	Garden St: East Side
	31-35 North Fourth Street: Parking Lots - Buildings at 31 and 35 North Fourth Street were built in the 1850s as a residence for E.W. Barnet, the proprietor of the Barnet House (formerly known as the White Horse Tavern, located at 47 North Fourth St. on the site of the present Bell Telephone (Verizon) Exchange Bldg.). No. 35 was the location of Jonathan Moore's harness (saddlery) shop from 1877 until approximately 1915, and Moore's wife Mary continued to live on the premises thereafter... more detail on 31-35 no. 4th street.
	37 North Fourth Street: First Nat. Bank of Allentown
	47 North Fourth Street: Bell Telephone (Verizon) Bldg - A "magnificent building" built in 19_ as an exchange for the Bell Telephone Company. In 1801, the White Horse Tavern was built on this property. (Its name distinguished it from the Black Horse Tavern, located at the corner of North Third and Spring Garden Streets). The White Horse became popular with farmers visiting Easton - both locals, and the hundreds of farmers who made use of the newly-opened Wilkes-Barre Turnpike at that time to bring their grain and produce to sell in the Easton grain market... more detail on 47 no. 4th street.
	61-63 North Fourth Street: Row Houses
	65-67 North Fourth Street: Row Houses
	75 North Fourth Street: White House Restaurant
	77 North Fourth Street: Apartments
Spring Garden St to	Bushkill St: West Side
	100 North Fourth Street: Store - ...more detail on 100 n. fourth st.
	104 North Fourth Street: Ahlum Gallery - ...more detail on 104 n. fourth st.
	112 North Fourth Street: Parking Lot
	118 North Fourth Street: Nevin Row Houses - No.118 became known as the "Doerr Home" after the owner-occupants who extensively renovated and restored the home after 1988... more detail on 118 no. 4th street.
	120 North Fourth Street: Town House - ... check back for more detail on 120 no. 4th street.
	124-26 North Fourth Street: William Laubach Residence - In the early 1870s, the residence of William Laubach, proprietor of Laubach's dry goods store (later, a department store) on Northampton Street. The residence was then listed as 68 North Fourth Street, under the street numbering scheme then in effect. By 1880, Mr. Laubach had built a mansion in the (then new) development on Fourteenth Street... more detail on 124 no. 4th street.
	406 Bushkill Street: Parking Lot
	355 Spring Garden Street: Churchman Business College Bldg - In 1911, William E. Churchman, the Manager of a business school on the second floor of 22-24 Centre Square, opened his own school in the Northampton National Bank bldg. His school moved to the Smith Bldg. at the NE corner of South 4th and Pine Streets in 1919, and then moved again in 1942 to Spring Garden Street. The school has now closed, and the building is undergoing renovations... more detail on 355 spring garden st.
	109 North Fourth Street: the Keller Row House - Elaborate 2-1/2 story Queen Anne/Shingle style brick house, with 2 large dormer windows, offsetting asymmetrical porches on first and second floors railed and roofed with graceful wooden spindle columns. Arched "baker's alley" is shared with No.111 next door....more detail on 109 n 4th st.
	111-13 North Fourth Street: Nevin Townhouse - Now Community Care Center. 2-2/1 story row houses, with 2 dormer windows in pitched roof, in partly frame and partly modern stoneface façade. Arched "baker's alley" is shared with No.109 next door. The 1874 Atlas shows this property apparently part of a larger parcel listed to E.B. Green, containing two buildings separated by a small alley. This small alley appears to correspond to the still-visible arched "baker's alley" between this building and the Keller Mansion next door. Notwithstanding the Atlas entry listing both buildings to E.B. Green, it in fact appears that the northern portion of the property was partitioned to Jane Green from the estate of John Green in 1871.... more detail on 111 n 4th st.
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	117-19 North Courth Street: Row Houses
	121 North Fourth Street: Residence
	123 North Fourth Street: Residence
	127 North Fourth Street: Office
	131 North Fourth Street: Parking Lot
	133 North Fourth Street: Apartments

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