{"id":5212,"date":"2010-01-05T01:39:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T01:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2010-01-05T01:39:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T01:39:10","slug":"coy-disbrow-company-revisited-greenwich-village-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2010\/01\/05\/coy-disbrow-company-revisited-greenwich-village-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Coy, Disbrow & Company Revisited – Greenwich Village, NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a9 Vincenzo Aiosa<\/p><\/div>\n

These three five-story, brick-clad structures were originally constructed c. 1868-69 as tenements, with ground-story commercial spaces, for David and William H. Millemann, provisions dealers.D. & W. H. Millemann, as well as their father\u2019s provisions firm, D[iebold]. Millemann & Son, only used\u00a0these buildings, as well as the adjacent pork packing plant building at No. 692 Greenwich Street (1868-69) [see] that they owned, until 1870 when they were declared bankrupt. David Millemann, a director of\u00a0the West Side Bank, was indicted in 1872 for \u201cfraudulently securing… barrels of pork… and within a\u00a0period of three months of committing acts of bankruptcy.\u201d The Millemanns sold No. 692 and Nos. 686-690 Greenwich Street in 1871 to Charles White of Charles White & Co., hog butchers located at the\u00a0\u201cfoot of 40th Street.\u201d The White Estate retained these four buildings until 1902. No. 692 and Nos. 686-690 Greenwich Street remained under joint ownership until 1952.<\/em><\/p>\n

Edesheimer Bros., manufacturers of\u00a0cider, vinegar, and pickles operated by Isaac Edesheimer (died 1918) and Michael Edesheimer (died\u00a01915) was located in these buildings c. 1885-93; this firm also declared bankruptcy several times\u00a0(Michael Edesheimer later worked for the Fleischmann Co. nearby). At the time of the sale of Nos. 686-67,\u00a0690 in 1902, they were referred to as warehouses in the New York Times. The buildings were ownedfrom 1903 until 1947 by Thomas J. Farrell (c. 1844-1921), his wife Catherine A. McIntee Farrell (died\u00a01927), and their heirs. Nos. 686-690 were converted to lofts with stores in 1906 by architect James W.\u00a0Cole. Consolidated California Vineyard Co. (Benno C. Samuel) was a tenant c. 1907-11.\u00a0The buildings were converted into a single warehouse in 1917 (Alt. 2396-17). A long-term tenant (c. 1930-65) was Coy, Disbrow & Co.\/ Pohlman Paper Co., wholesale paper and twine merchants.<\/em><\/p>\n

Coy, Disbrow & Co. was founded in 1922 by Robert Henry Coy and Hamilton T. Disbrow. Coy (c.1877-1942), born in Vermont, began in the paper business while a young man and was a partner in 1898\u00a0in Coy, Hunt & Co. He served as president and general manager of Coy, Disbrow & Co., as well as executive director of the Paper Association of New York. Disbrow (c. 1853-1942), born in New York City,\u00a0started work as a boy in drygoods, then went into the paper business in 1876 with his brother, H. Grinell\u00a0Disbrow. He left Disbrow Bros. to work in Wilkinson Bros. & Co., then Coy, Hunt & Co. in 1898. Disbrow served as chairman of the board of Coy, Disbrow & Co. Their firm became a division of Pohlman\u00a0Paper Co., established in 1919 by Arthur W. Pohlman (c. 1883-1952), who served as president until his death.\u00a0The building was converted to apartments in 1977<\/em> – taken from Greenwich Village Historic District Extension Designation Report,<\/strong> New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission -May 2, 2006<\/p>\n

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