Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight-story building, yet under construction in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, to house his activities. The building is worth $1,500,000, and stands on ground leased for 84 years at $30,000 yearly rental, or $2,520,000 for the entire period. Bernarr Macfadden cannot buy the land in fee simple, for it is owned by Trinity Corporation, which represents Trinity Church...
Trinity Church, on Broadway opposite Wall Street, two centuries ago owned approximately 60 acres of Manhattan land between Broadway and the Hudson River. Much other land has been donated since. Much has been sold. Trinity still is a very great landlord, and, like all great landlords of urban property, cannot keep supervision on its tenants-be they banks, brothels or Macfaddens...
...Theological School was not formally organized until some years later: funds were lacking for its efficient functioning although in 1813 Samuel Parkman of Boston, a wealthy and public spirited merchant conveyed to the Collage a township of land in Maine "for the support of a Professor in Theology." The benefits of this gift were great in prospect, but it was of he immediate help to the department...
Royall Makes Bequest of Land...
Under the will of Isaac Royall, who died in 1781, Harvard College received a bequest of more than 2,000 acres of land in the towns of Granby and Royalton, in Worcester County, Mass. The donor, who was born in Antigua, was the son of a merchant of great wealth, who, having purchased extensive estates in New England, had emigrated to Massachusetts in 1738. Isaac Royall settled in Charlestown, of which town he was a Representative for nine years. Later, he became a Counsellor, and held that office until 1774. However, says Josiah Quincy '28, "his judgment...