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English: 1925 - Trexler Lumber Company. Located at 16th and Liberty Streets, Allentown PA. This was a large lumber yard and hardware store, established in 1904 by Harry C. Trexler. Trexler's father Edwin and Edwin's brothers in 1856 had opened the business in the 900 block of Hamilton Street, but as Allentown grew, they moved it to the then vacant west end of Allentown.

A 1937 ad for Trexler Lumber noted that it was one of the largest lumber yards of its kind in the eastern United States. Its roofed lumber shed was called the largest of its kind in the world. Beginning in the early 1960s, the area between Liberty and Allen streets, from 16th to 17th was sold and the large lumber shed torn down. It became a mixed-use area of medical offices, a shopping center and other small buisnesses. The area to the right (South) remained a lumber yard until the night of March 31, 1973, there was a major fire at the Trexler lumber yard that destroyed the remainder of the property along with the C.Y. Schelly & Brothers building.

On Sept. 25, 1973, the Charles Kline Lodge of Allentown's B'nai B'rith purchased the destroyed lumber yard for $70,000, cleared the land and constructed what are now are the twelve -story B'nai B'rith Apartments on the site.