Broadway Mansions is a nineteen-floor Art Deco five-star hotel in Shanghai, China.
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21 Facts About Broadway Mansions
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The Broadway Mansions has been owned and operated by the Shanghai Hengshan Holdings Company since at least 1985.
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The Broadway Mansions was "originally built in 1934 as an exclusive residential hotel by the British".
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The Broadway Mansions was built by Ye Guang Estate Property Company, for the Shanghai Land Investment, Company controlled by Sir Victor Sassoon.
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The primary developer and financer of the Broadway Mansions was Dr Maurice Benjamin who had "financed and built much of the Shanghai coast".
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Also immediately after World War II, the Broadway Mansions hosted the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China, which had been founded in Chongqing on 18 May 1943, in its upper four floors, and billeted its members and their families, until soon after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in October 1949.
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The Broadway Mansions hosted a popular brothel in this period of American occupancy.
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In May 1949 the Broadway Mansions was still the tallest apartment building in Shanghai, but described as a "building with dull red brick".
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On 20 June 1949 the remaining 11 foreigners residing in the Broadway Mansions were ordered to leave to make room for political and military workers.
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In 1965, the Broadway Mansions was described as "the huge ugly building in Shanghai".
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The General Manager of the Broadway Mansions from 1985 to at least 1999 was Tao Pei Tai was born on 1 August 1946, and who was Deputy General Manager of Hengshan Group Holding Co.
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However, after September 1993 the Broadway Mansions was no longer the dominant landmark in the Shanghai landscape:.
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At that time the Broadway Mansions was described as "rather dull compared to other Shanghai hotels".
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Broadway Mansions has been owned and operated by the Shanghai Hengshan Holdings Company since at least 1985.
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Broadway Mansions was the first hotel in Shanghai to have a restaurant on the top of the building.
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Today the Broadway Mansions Hotel has six restaurants, and is famous for its Huaiyang cuisine.
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The design of the Broadway Mansions was "influenced by modernism", and like "most apartment buildings in Shanghai featured a simple and modern style of exterior".
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Harold Conant, who lived in Shanghai for ten years from 1931, depicted the Mansions: "The Broadway Mansions, which seems to be so constructed that the wind always whistles through it, seems to have been shown quite frequently in American newspapers".
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