Hotel Marseilles

Hotel Marseilles
View of the Marseilles from the intersection of Broadway and 103th Street. The facade is largely made of red brick, except at the base, where it is made of stone. The top of the hotel contains windows within a black mansard roof.
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General information
Architectural styleBeaux-Arts
Location2689–2693 Broadway, New York, NY, 10025
CountryUnited States
Coordinates40°47′57″N 73°58′09″W / 40.7992°N 73.9691°W / 40.7992; -73.9691
Construction started1902
OpeningOctober 1905
OwnerMarseilles LLC[1]
Technical details
Floor count11
Design and construction
Architect(s)Harry Allan Jacobs
DeveloperJ. Arthur Pinchbeck
Other information
Number of units134
DesignatedOctober 2, 1990
Reference no.1660[2]

The Hotel Marseilles (also known as the Marseilles) is a residential building at 2689–2693 Broadway, on the corner with West 103rd Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Constructed between 1902 and 1905 as one of several apartment hotels along Broadway on the Upper West Side, the Marseilles was designed by architect Harry Allan Jacobs in the Beaux-Arts style. The building is a New York City designated landmark.

The building is 11 stories tall. Its facade is largely made of red brick and stone, with ornamentation made of architectural terracotta and wrought iron. The limestone base is three stories high and contains a main entrance on 103rd Street; the building also contains an interior light court facing south. The structure is topped by a two-story mansard roof with asphalt tiles. When the Marseilles operated as a hotel, it contained several dining rooms and other spaces for guests. The upper stories were arranged into more than 250 guestrooms, which have since been converted into 134 apartments for the elderly.

The Marseilles was developed by J. Arthur Pinchbeck, whose Netherlands Construction Company developed the structure as an apartment hotel. The hotel was completed in October 1905 and was originally operated by Louis Lukes before being resold several times in the 20th century. The ground-story rooms were replaced with shops in the 1920s. The structure contained a refugee center for Holocaust survivors in the 1940s, and the Marseilles became a single room occupancy hotel in the late 20th century. Two attempts to convert the building into affordable housing for elderly people failed in the 1960s and 1970s. The West Side Federation for Senior Housing sponsored a third, successful conversion, which was completed in 1980.

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  2. ^ Landmarks Preservation Commission 1990, p. 1.