Category:Lyceum Theater, Allentown, Pennsylvania

In August 1912, the Noflaw Corporation, which operated Noflaw Theater in Allentown, fell into financial hardship and ownership of the theater was transferred to a group of investors based in New York City. The new owners renamed the theater as the Lyceum and hired a reportorial group for it's own stage productions, along with the Vaudeville and silent films.

The Lyceum opened on 2 September 1912, and by all accounts was initially a successful theater. In January 1914, financial troubles began and the management discontinued motion pictures and presented only vaudeville acts and stage plays. By April the theater was in receivership and was closed. For several months, the theater was re-opened occasionally for one-night events such as political meetings, but no entertainment programs were presented. New owners purchased the theater in August, who also owned a new theater, about half-a-block to the east of the Lyceum on the first floor of the Chanock Apartment building, 925 Hamilton Street, on the northwest corner of Fountain and Hamilton Streets in Allentown.

After some renovations, the Lyceum re-opened in the beginning of September as a cinema-only theater; the Regent about a week later. On the night of 15 May 1916, after a day and evening of a six-reel feature and two serial films, a massive fire broke out and destroyed the theater, consuming the property. The Lyceum Theater was a total loss. After the fire, the Regent continued to show silent films during the rebuilding period of the Lyceum until the company was sold to the Wilmer and Vincent chain.

Object location	40° 36′ 02″ N, 75° 28′ 39″ W	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	40.600556; -75.477500