English: This colorized postcard photo shows the north side of Hamilton Street looking eastbound from Ninth Street. The large white building prominent in the photo is the Grand Central Hotel. It would later be taken over by Max and Charles Hess, who at the time had taken over the double red building just to the east of it in 1896. Note the several horse powered covered taxis in front of the Grand Central Hotel. That formerly was the Black Bear Hotel that was built in the 1860s, after a disastrous fire had burned down the entire block between Eighth and Ninth. Hamilton street is unpaved, although there are double tracked streetcars of Lehigh Valley Transit running in the center of the street. On the south side, there appear to be several residences where today the Butz Construction company building is. In the far background is the tower of the Hotel Allen, but there is no Soldier's and Sailors monument, which dates this image to about 1892.