Willie Hammerstein Sullivan and Percy G. Williams. Later the Keith-Albee circuit booking office gave Hammerstein a monopoly on big-time vaudeville in Times Square. Willie's father was much more interested in grand opera, and in 1906 opened the Manhattan Opera House. Revenue from the Victoria kept the opera house running. At one point Oscar Hammerstein, always short of money, moved to sell the Victoria to the Shubert family. Willie and his brother Arthur, who produced shows, blocked the attempt. In March 1913 Keith and Albee paid Oscar Hamilton a reported $225,000 to give up his monopoly. They opened the Palace Theatre at 47th
Baumwollspinnerei Hammerstein changed in a 1930 referendum to Wuppertal (“Wupper Valley”). The Hammerstein manor house controlled much of the valley floor of the Wupper. In 1825 it gave its name to the in , that still stands on the "Hammersteiner Allee", and to a station of the suspension railway. Sonnborn itself gave its name to the on the autobahn 46 and autobahn 535. Downhill from the Villa Hammerstein, the businessman Johann Christian Jung built the weaving sheds and the cotton mill "Baumwollspinnerei Hammerstein" alongside the Wupper between 1835 and 1837. He included workers accommodation in the form of an apartment block. The