Hotel Marseilles
2689 Broadway | also 2699 Broadway, 230 West 103rd Street, 2697 Broadway | Upper West Side | built 1905
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- 1905
The Hotel Marseilles opens at Broadway and 103rd Street
Architect Harry Allan Jacobs designed the 11-story Beaux-Arts apartment hotel, built in 1902–05 with a red brick and stone facade ornamented in terracotta and wrought iron. It opened in October 1905, leased and run by Louis Lukes. The city designated it a landmark on October 2, 1990.
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- 1946
Holocaust survivors begin arriving at the Marseilles
After World War II the United Service for New Americans leased about 150 rooms in the hotel to house displaced persons. Roughly 9,000 Holocaust survivors passed through between 1946 and 1949, and by late 1949 about 1,500 refugees were living in the building at one time.
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- 1959
Edna Crenshaw opens a barbershop serving the neighborhood's Black residents
In 1959, Edna Crenshaw opens a barbershop inside the Hotel Marseilles after finding that no shop nearby would serve Black residents. The building becomes a single-room-occupancy hotel housing many welfare tenants during the 1960s, and Crenshaw's shop remains a fixture through that decline. It lasts until the building's 1980 conversion into subsidized housing for seniors.
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- 1980
The old hotel reopens as subsidized housing for seniors
By the early 1960s the Marseilles had become a single-room-occupancy hotel, and by the 1970s it was known for poor upkeep. The West Side Federation for Senior Housing sponsored a renovation, completed in 1980, that turned the building into 134 subsidized apartments for elderly residents.
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- 1990
The city designates the Beaux-Arts hotel a landmark
On October 2, 1990, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designates the Hotel Marseilles, citing Harry Allan Jacobs's Beaux-Arts design of red brick, terracotta and wrought iron completed in 1905. The eleven-story building's main entrance on 103rd Street features a fifteen-foot arch framed by fluted Tuscan columns. By then the hotel had already spent a decade as subsidized apartments for elderly residents.
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