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Bretton Hall is a twelve-story residential building at 2350 Broadway spanning from 85th to 86th Streets〔 in the Upper West Side〔 of Manhattan, New York City. ==History== It was completed in 1903, as the Hotel Bretton Hall, as a residential hotel billing itself as the largest hotel uptown.〔Michael V. Susi, ''The Upper West Side'' 1988, illus. p 69.〕 The architect was Harry B. Mulliken, of Mulliken and Moeller, who also designed the Cumberland Hotel, Thomas Jefferson Hotel, and the Spencer Arms Hotel on Broadway,〔''On Broadway: A Journey Uptown Over Time'', David Dunlap, Rizzoli, 1990,〕 the Hotel Lucerne on Amsterdam Avenue at 79th Street, and the Van Dyck, the Severn, the Jermyn, and the Chepstow apartment buildings on the Upper West Side.〔 The 86th Street Company received the ''unimproved property'' from Le Grand K. Petit with a mortgage of $90,000 on it. A building loan of $1,250,000 at 6% was secured from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company on March 10, 1902. Afterward the 86th Street Company mortgaged the property for $1,365,000 at 6%, due October 1, 1903, to the General Building and Construction Company. John R. & Oscar L. Foley leased Bretton Hall to Anderson & Price for twenty-one years for a price of $2,394,000, for Irons & Todd, who comprised the Seaboard Realty and 86th Street Companies.〔''Bretton Hall Leased'', New York Times, August 18, 1903, pg. 10.〕 In the early 1980s, an organization called Artists Assistance Services rented out apartments in the Bretton Hall to people in the arts, with the unusual proviso that they would have to share the use of the space with a "cultural activity" such as a karate class.〔"The Broadway blues", ''New York Magazine'', 13 May 1985, p. 53.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bretton Hall (Manhattan)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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