1874-1929
Minister

Major Fundamentalists.

Public Figure.

The Man Who Fought Broadway.

Fundamentalist Battles.

Attacking Liberalism.

Politics.

Depression.

At the end of the decade Straton attracted widespread attention when he announced that his congregation had agreed to raze their structure and build a hotel to share the site with the church He was convinced that the income from the hotel on its valuable piece of property on West Fifty-seventh Street would later support the congregation and its activities However, the Salisbury Hotel opened just as the great stockmarket crash ended the hectic prosperity of the 1920s, leaving the church with a staggering debt of more than $2 million Straton himself was not around to pay off the sum He died unexpectedly on 29 October 1929, the day of the worst plunge of the stock market, and did not see the effects of the Depression that followed

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