The link below is to a NY Times article from October 18, 1877. You will have to click on an additional link via the site below in order to see the complete article as a PDF. It is hard to imagine how much furniture must have gone up in this fire, but the article is fairly specific about how much inventory ($) was destroyed. The article has some descriptions of the shops as well.
I suspect that more can be learned on the NY Times site. They have done a nice job of making their archives available within the last year.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9500E1DA103FE63BBC4052DFB667838C669FDE
Enjoy!
- Jason
1877 FIRE - Roux, PJ Hardy, Huntzinger, "Herts Brothers", etc.
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Furniture Reference Links and Images thread on victorianforum.com · started February 13, 2008 by 1881victorian · 2 posts · discussion in 2008.
The link below is to a NY Times article from October 18, 1877. You will have to click on an additional link via the site below in order to see the complete article as a PDF. It is hard to imagine how much furniture must have gone up in this fire, but the article is fairly…
I particularly like the reference to "Huntzinger" with a "t" and the fact that Hardy owned the building that Hunzinger was in. There is a resemblance between their work - see the Hardy chair here.
Another article I ran into while looking for more on Hardy is this: one. It talks of a worker's strike and names many famous makers impacted: Pottier & Stymus, Herter, (Hardy), Roux, Kilian, Schrenkeisen, "Kemble and Cabers" (I assume was Kimbel and Cabus), Marcotte. Interesting reading these old accounts.
Another article I ran into while looking for more on Hardy is this: one. It talks of a worker's strike and names many famous makers impacted: Pottier & Stymus, Herter, (Hardy), Roux, Kilian, Schrenkeisen, "Kemble and Cabers" (I assume was Kimbel and Cabus), Marcotte. Interesting reading these old accounts.