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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. Running from Symphony Circle on the west, to Main street on the east, the neighborhood is generally centered around Allen Street.

Notable Places

• Allendale Theater - home of the Theater of the Youth
• Arlington Park - home to Frank Lloyd Wright while he worked in Buffalo
• Butler Mansion - currently UB's Jacobs Executive Development Center
• Day's Park - an Olmsted Park
• Kleinhans Music Hall - home to the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
• Symphony Circle - Part of the extensive parks and parkways system designed for Buffalo by Frederick Law Olmsted
• Wilcox Mansion - Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site

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Notable Events

• Allentown Art Festival

References

• http://www.allentown.org/
• http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/maps/buf/a.html