- Bretton Hall, Manhattan
Bretton Hall, Manhattan is a twelve story residential building at 2350
Broadway (Manhattan) from 85th Street to 86th Street in theUpper West Side ofNew York City . It was completed in 1903. The architect was Harry B. Mulliken. He 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,]Present time
Formerly a
residential hotel , currently the red brick and limestone building has 461 rental apartments. It has a large stainless steel marquee and a four-step-up entrance with a disabled ramp side approach. It is without a garage, sidewalk landscaping, health club, or roof deck. Bretton Hall employs a doorman and features ornamental balconies and other architectural attributes. Itsfenestration is haphazard. Its facade exemplifiesBeaux Arts architecture , yet it lacks the elaborate cornice it originally had. It was lost many years ago. Architect John C. Calderon has redesigned the parapet in red brick with stone put down in alternating stripes. The restoration of the building cost $1,000,000. ["Along Broadway JettisonedCornices Are Being Rebuilt", New York Times,January 7 ,2007 , pg. 11.9. ]Business transactions
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 YorkTimes, August 18, 1903, pg. 10.]Hotel apartment
When it opened in late 1903 the basement and deckhouse apartment hotel was fireproof and equipped with an electricplant and six elevators. The structure contained 187 suites, 506 rooms, 231 baths, and 385 toilet rooms. It fronted Broadway for 205 feet and85th Street for 100.11 feet. Its rear measurement was 204.4 feet. Plans for Bretton Hall were filed on June 7, 1902 with an estimated cost of construction to be $1,550,000.
The New York Produce Exchange Bank opened a branch at the Bretton Hall Hotel in November 1903. They leased offices in the edifice for a periodof ten years for an annual rental between $2,500 to $3,500. ["New Bank On Upper Broadway", New York Times, New York Times, November8, 1903, pg. F4.]
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* [http://www.thecityreview.com/uws/bway/bway2350.html Bretton Hall] photo and article at thecityreview.com retrieved on 2-12-08.
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