DeGraaf & Taylor

Allgemeines

NameDeGraaf & Taylor
OrtssitzNew York City
StraßeWest 14th Street 47+49
Art des UnternehmensMöbel- und Dekorationsgeschäft
AnmerkungenAdresse: Nos. 47 und 49 West 14th Street, durchlaufend bis zur No. 48 West 15th Street.
Quellenangaben[New Yorks great industries (1884) 92]




Unternehmensgeschichte

Zeit Ereignis
1852 Gründung durch Henry P. DeGraaf.




Produkte

Produkt ab Bem. bis Bem. Kommentar
Möbelhandel 1884 [New Yorks great ind. (1884)] 1884 [New Yorks great ind. (1884)] Furniture and Decorations




Allgemeines

ZEIT1884
THEMAFirmendarstellung
TEXTIt is a duty as well as a pleasure to make prominent mention in this work of the old established concern of DeGraaf & Taylor, one of the leading furniture houses of the United States. The business was founded in 1852 by Mr. Henry P. DeGraaf. In 1860 Mr. DeGraaf formed a copartnership with Mr. Robert, M. Taylor, and the firm name of DeGraaf & Taylor, as thus constituted, has become during the intervening years, the representative name in the furniture trade. The co-partners are at present Mr. Henry P. DeGraaf, Mr. Robert M. Taylor, Mr. William H. DeGraaf, and Mr. Frank M. Kelley, all active and responsible members of the mercantile community. The firm occupies most eligible and spacious premises, central and desirable in location, and in the midst of the most stirring section of the city. They occupy the two entire buildings, Nos. 47 and 49 West 14th Street, running through to, and including the building No. 48 West 15th Street. The dimensions are as follows: frontage on 14th Street fifty feet, with a depth of two hundred feet and a frontage on 14th Street of twenty-five feet. The establishment is five stories in height, and combined with its immense depth affords unusually extensive floorspace. and which is every inch of it required in order to display the immense stock of fine cabinet and art furniture for which this house is so celebrated, and which is the largest as it is the best assortment from which to select in the metropolis. In this connection it is proper to mention that Messrs. DeGraaf & Taylor's manufacturing faculties are unsurpassed. They have built up an especially high reputation for the prompt filling of the largest orders, often involving the outlay and payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the history of the house records an almost continuous series of the complete furnishing of the largest and highest class hotels, steamboats, and steamships, in addition to the widespread character of their sales to fit up the finest private residences in city and country. For beauty and originality of design, superior and elaborate finish, durability and general excellence, they stand unrivalled today and confidently invite a personal inspection of their new and elegant stock of furniture, comprising as it does every style now manufactured, in all woods and of the latest designs. Their new and spacious warerooms are the most completely adapted to the furniture trade of any to be found in the business, and possessing as they do every facility for manufacturing under their own personal supervision, they are fully prepared to fill any order in their line, and to fit out completely or in part, private residences, club-houses, hotels, flats, public institutions, steamers, etc. In referring to the firm's splendid stock, a few facts are worthy of notice: The first of these is that they show more furniture of fine and medium grades in their warerooms than any other house, rendering it by all odds the best stock to select from. Second: They have sold good and well constructed furniture and the best of bedding, for all purposes (especially for family use), consecutively since 1852, and notwithstanding the increase of competition have held the lead, and can refer to patrons of theirs all over the United States who have been on their books during the entire period. Their facilities are unequalled for producing reliable furniture and bedding in small or large lots upon the shortest notice, being always prepared for any demands in their line, and at times employing (directly and indirectly) as high as five hundred hands. Their trade extends all over the United States, and they likewise export more or less of their justly famous manufactures to Europe. They promptly contract for the entire furnishing of a house, hotel or steamer at lowest prices, and have had almost a monopoly of the finer classes of this work, as will be demonstrated by the readers glancing at the appended lint, which they have furnished: St. James Hotel, Gilsey House, Westminster Hotel, Hotel Brunswick, Windsor Hotel, Hotel Royal, St. Denis Hotel, Winchester House, Belvedere Hotel, Manhattan Hotel, Morton House (in part), Hotel Dam (in part), Union Square Hotel (in part) -all of New York City. Among city clubs may be mentioned the Merchants, Travellers, and New York; the Stevens Institute, John Morrissey's Club House and Cottages at Saratoga, the Union Square Theatre, Gilmore's Garden, Deaf and Dumb Institute, the Foundling Hospital, Insane Asylum and Inebriate Asylum - all of New York; the Corporation Steamboats and Roosevelt Hospital. Outside of the city may be mentioned the United States, American and Adelphi Hotels of Saratoga; Wil-lard's Hotel of Washington; the Isle of Wight Co., Long Island; Lenox House, Greenwich, Ct.; Reamer's Hotel, St. Augustine, Fla.; Stanwix Hall, Albany; West End Hotel and Cottages at Long Branch; Hotel Brighton, Coney Island; the Oriental at Manhattan Beach; Long Beach Hotel; the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, Mo.; the Argyle Hotel and Cottages, Long Island; Dutcher Hotel, Pawlings, N. Y.; the Genesee at Buffalo; Hotel Jerome, Sheepshead Bay; Hotel Wagner, Canajoharie; Tremper House, Phoenicia, etc., etc. Among the steamboats which they have furnished are those of the People's Line, the Day Line to Albany, the De Bary Line of Florida, many of Starin's steamers, the steamships of the Old Dominion S.S. Co., those of the Stonington Line, the famous " Mary Powell," and many others too numerous to mention; also summer cottages in great numbers at all watering places. The house of DeGraaf & Taylor has thus well earned its title as the representative and largest furniture establishment in the city, possessing superior facilities in every way and making a specialty of furnishing residences complete. The warerooms are fitted with a passenger elevator, and all modern appliances, and are a daily scene of busy activity, upwards of one hundred hands being constantly employed on the premises under Mr. Kelley's able guidance. Mr. Robert M. Taylor has long been identified with the furniture trade, and its development into the present high class of workmanship and design is greatly due to his intelligent and untiring efforts.
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