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The Ben Franklin House, formerly known as the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, is a historic hotel, now apartment building, located at 834 Chestnut Street in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ==History== The Benjamin Franklin Hotel was built by Niagara Falls businessman Frank A. Dudley and operated by the United Hotels Company of America. The hotel, originally opened in 1923, was designed by prominent American architect of the Gilded Age, Horace Trumbauer.〔 The hotel, named for founding father and Philadelphian, Benjamin Franklin, attracted attention in 1947 for refusing to accommodate the Brooklyn Dodgers, who had used the hotel for years, because of the inclusion of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American player in Major League Baseball. The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel agreed to house the team that day.〔http://articles.philly.com/2013-04-08/news/38348704_1_jackie-robinson-phillies-baseball-world〕 The team moved their permanent accommodations to the Warwick Hotel.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=5seOOKgRTosC&pg=PA79&lpg=PA79&dq=franklin+hotel+philadelphia+warwick+robinson&source=bl&ots=6wdXsMwOPY&sig=i1AopU_0235x_xAeA_vPYJNLeHY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vs5qUYXTBOG8yAG5joGICA&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=franklin%20hotel%20philadelphia%20warwick%20robinson&f=false〕 The hotel was owned by Bankers Securities Corporation which owned several hotels (including, ironically, the Bellevue-Stratford) within the city of Philadelphia. During the tradition of Army-Navy football, the hotel was the housing hotel for Army. The 1970s were a slow period with hotels hoping to benefit by the 1976 Bicentennial Celebration in the original thirteen colonies. However, this was not the financial success expected. William Chadwick was the general manager for many years in the 1960s to 1970s, followed by Harry Gilbert and then Tom Johnson just prior to the hotel's closing in the 1980s. On the staff in the late 1960s to early 1970s was Robert C. Bennett, Jr., later the founding professor of a hotel management degree program at a suburban county community college. Also, in 1976 the state of New Jersey legalized casino gambling, which further hurt the hotel industry in Philadelphia as new hotels opened in Atlantic City. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ben Franklin House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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