{"id":200140,"date":"2026-05-22T20:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200140\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:29:09","slug":"building-fire-temporarily-closes-historic-restaurant-in-the-lehigh-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200140\/","title":{"rendered":"Building fire temporarily closes historic restaurant in the Lehigh Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A historic Lehigh Valley restaurant has temporarily closed following a building fire.<\/p>\n<p>The Iron Mule restaurant and bar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1B9w8nTWSM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced the closure<\/a> Friday afternoon at 831 S. Delaware Drive in Williams Township.<\/p>\n<p>A Northampton County dispatcher said the fire was reported around 2:18 p.m. Friday and that no injuries or fatalities were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very fortunate that no people got hurt and are very thankful for the fast support of the wonderful Williams Township, Wilson Township, Palmer Township, Easton Township Fire Companies \u2014 and any others we may have missed \u2014 who came out to help us,\u201d the announcement said.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant said it would be closed until employees could safely re-enter the building.<\/p>\n<p>The building was constructed in 1782 and previously operated as the Black Horse Tavern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A historic Lehigh Valley restaurant has temporarily closed following a building fire. The Iron Mule restaurant and bar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60,2181,182,434,28,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-200140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-business","tag-easton","tag-local-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","tag-retail","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}