Hotel Broadalbin

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Hotel Broadalbin

A hotel known first from its stationery — the paper Abigail Wright's Hotel Broadalbin Map was drawn on (Session 4). The stationery is heavy linen bond stamped 1933, in pristine condition.

The map drawn on it marks the basement, the elevator, a room labeled "JL Bottle," and a hallway corner "WL."

Located — Madison Square Park (The Daribondi Books)

Mordant's Session 7 research places it: a 1928 photo in The Devil's Craftsman shows Asa Daribondi before an art deco hotel with a "B" on every door, the Eternal Light Flagstaff of Madison Square Park reflected in its window. The caption: Daribondi "lived for a time" there and "helped restore [it] in lieu of payment." The "B," the deco styling, and the park frontage identify this as the Broadalbin.

It's One of Daribondi's Buildings
The Broadalbin isn't just a hotel on Abigail's map — it's a building the **suspected child-drowning architect restored and inhabited (~1928)**, one of his **nine "mundane" NYC structures** that may hide night floors behind an ordinary front, exactly like the McAllistor Building. Abigail was mapping its **basement and elevator** for a reason.

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