The Allentown district is a neighborhood in Buffalo, New York

Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...

. The neighborhood is home to the Allentown Historic District

Allentown Historic District (Buffalo, New York)

Allentown Historic District in the Allentown neighborhood of Buffalo, New York is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980....

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Geography

Allentown is the first neighborhood north of the Downtown Buffalo core. It borders the downtown theater and entertainment district to its south, and runs north to North Street at its northern edge, Normal Avenue on the west, and Main street on the east. The neighborhood is generally centered around Allen Street and Elmwood Avenue.

Allentown is known for its community of artists, for its embrace of bohemian

Bohemianism

Bohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people, with few permanent ties, involving musical, artistic or literary pursuits...

 and gay

Gay

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 culture, and for the civic commitment of residents to the historic and aesthetic sensibilities of the neighborhood. Allentown is one of Buffalo's premier areas for nightlife, dining, and antique shopping.

Notable places

• Allendale Theater - home of the Theater of the Youth
• Arlington Park
  Allentown Historic District (Buffalo, New York)
  Allentown Historic District in the Allentown neighborhood of Buffalo, New York is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980....
  
   - redesigned by Frederick Law Olmsted
  Frederick Law Olmsted
  Frederick Law Olmsted was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture, although many scholars have bestowed that title upon Andrew Jackson Downing...
  
  ; home to Frank Lloyd Wright
  Frank Lloyd Wright
  Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
  
   while he worked in Buffalo
• Butler Mansion - currently UB's Jacobs Executive Development Center
• Day's Park
  Allentown Historic District (Buffalo, New York)
  Allentown Historic District in the Allentown neighborhood of Buffalo, New York is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980....
  
   - redesigned by Frederick Law Olmsted
• Kleinhans Music Hall
  Kleinhans Music Hall
  Kleinhans Music Hall, home of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, was built in the late 1930s and opened October 1940. It is located on Symphony Circle. The music hall was built as a part of the last will and testament of Edward L. and Mary Seaton Kleinhans, owners of the Kleinhans mens clothing...
  
   - home to the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
  Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
  The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra located in Buffalo, New York. Its primary performing venue is Kleinhans Music Hall, which is a National Historic Landmark. Its regular concert season features gala concerts, classics programming of core repertoire, Pops...
  
  
• Symphony Circle - Part of the extensive parks and parkways system designed for Buffalo by Frederick Law Olmsted
• Wilcox Mansion
  Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
  Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site preserves the Ansley Wilcox House, at 641 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York. Here, after the assassination of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office as President of the United States on September 14, 1901...
  
   - Theodore Roosevelt
  Theodore Roosevelt
  Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
  
   Inaugural Site
• The Nickel City Housing Cooperative, Buffalo's first single-family housing cooperative, located in Edward Brodhead Green
  Edward Brodhead Green
  E. B. Green was a major American architect from New York State. He was born in Utica, NY. He attended Cornell University, and moved to Buffalo, NY in 1881, where he was active through about 1930...
  
  's historic Granger Mansion.
• Trinity Episcopal Church- Noted for its stained glass architecture.