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An Alternate Plan for the Times Square Hotel, Incorporating the Historic Helen Hayes and Morosco Theatres in its Basic Design. Architect: Lee Harris Pomeroy, F.A.I.A, circa 1981, inclusive

Box: 1, Volume: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Booklet about Portman Hotel project proposed to Lee Harris Pomeroy by the Actors' Equity Association in collaboration with the Committee to Save the Theatres and the Save Our Broadway Committee.

Preservation of the Helen Hayes and Morosco Theatres. Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects P.C., circa 1982, inclusive

Box: 1, Volume: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Booklet about Portman Hotel project including press and drawn renderings.

A Study by Save the Theatres Inc. - Broadway Theatre District: A Preservation, Development and Management Plan, 1983 December, inclusive

Box: 1, Volume: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

with Lee Harris Pomeroy Associates, Architects Urban Design & Planning Consultants; Jack Goldstein, Save the Theatres, Director of Preservation; Fred W. Kent, Project for Public Spaces, Public Space Management Consultants; Harvard Business School Task Force, Economic & Real Estate Development.

Broadway Planning Study, Portman Hotel Alternative, 1981-1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

The documents within this folder were extracted from a binder and contain press articles and drawn floor plan renderings on transparencies for multiple levels of the Portman Hotel building.

Project #8109, Theatre District Study (6 folders), 1979-1987, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 2-7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Project #8109P, Portman Hotel (7 folders), 1981-1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 8-14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Project #8204, Broadway Theatre District Study (14 folders), 1981-1983, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 1-14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Brochure Material and Awards, circa 1985-1987, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Multiple copies of Lee Harris Pomeroy's list of academic, practice, and community interests and list of awards.

BOMA New York, 1991, 1994, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

The Building Owners' and Managers' Association 1991 Awards for Excellence Pamphlet and BOMA NY Seminar Series overview for 16 November 1994.

Helen Hayes Theatre Floor Plans, circa 1981, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Color photocopies of drawn floor plan renderings for multiple levels of the Portman Hotel building. Some of these are photocopied from the original transparencies, which can be found in Box 1 Folder 1.

Scrapbook (disbound) (3 folders), 1952-1989, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 15-17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

The oversize scrapbook was disbound and the contents foldered. The bulk includes clippings and photocopies of clippings concerning the Portman Hotel matter, dating from 1981-82. There are some clippings and other documents relating to other Pomeroy projects and to him personally, especially related to his college years in the early 1950s at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift, New York Preservation Archive Project, January 2020.

New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024