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...filling it. Because he has scored one major victory (and several minor ones), he is calmly optimistic, despite the strong opposition that is apt to greet his ideas. Although thwarted in his attempt on the waters of the Charles, he registered a smashing success with his motel (now the Treadway) on stilts over a parking lot in Brattle Square. The new management is already planning to add several more stories, and the parking is just fine...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: John Briston Sullivan | 2/11/1961 | See Source »

This would not be the first building on stilts in Harvard Square. The first is the Treadway Motor House at the opposite end of the square, which is now adding another story after only ten months of operation. Its success is no doubt due to the occupants' peace of mind at being protected from the snakes which infest the area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CASE FOR STILTS | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

Hearings took place before the House Committee on Cities which was considering bills by Senator Francis X. McCann and Rep. George W. Spartachino to sell the land, part of historic Cambridge Common, at the petition of John Briston Sullivan, the building's promoter. Sullivan previously engineered construction of the Treadway Motor Inn on stilts in Brattle Square...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: University Opposes Land Sale For 15-Story Office Building | 1/19/1961 | See Source »

...Beacon Hill, legislators from Cambridge have already introduced bills to facilitate sale or lease of the land to Sullivan and Chase, who recently promoted construction of the Treadway Motor (on stilts) in Brattle Sq. There has been speculation that success of the new might lead to closing of the MTA in Harvard...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Group Proposes Story Building For Square Area | 12/16/1960 | See Source »

...movie is concerned with the sudden death of the president of the Treadway Furniture Corporation and the subsequent maneuverings as the seven-man board of control tries to name a successor. The situation is a patently false one, since for some obscure reasons the next president must be named within a day of his predecessor's death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Executive Suite | 5/20/1954 | See Source »

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