His plans included "interior alterations and walls altered." But the Kirks apparently changed their minds. Franklin to make alterations for the new tenants in July that year. In March the following year they sublet the building to Rudolph Kraft and Adolf Lucker, owners of the Champion Brewing Company. 15, title to which was now transferred to his children, John L. In January 1887 she transferred title to Joseph Wilson, presumably a relative, for $4,582.00, or about a quarter of a million in today's dollars.īy the time William Kirk died in 1889 he had purchased No. The partners leased the buildings from the widowed Ellen Wilson who lived in Brooklyn. Boyd and Kirk ran saloons throughout the city as well. It appears that the former stable building continued to be used to house trucks and horses, as well as the offices of the firm. It was not long before Sawyer's Club Stables was absorbed into the brewery complex, which at least by 1868 was owned by John Boyd and William Kirk. The partners' announcement of the take-over in December 1861 noted "they will manufacture the choicest brands of Pale and Amber Ales, X. The operation ran through the block from Nos. Now they acquired the New York Steam Brewery and renamed it the United States Brewery. William Martin and George Kinnier had run John Harrison's Brewery on Sullivan Street for seven years. In 1861 the Club Stables got a new next door neighbor. He made special note that the latter was "nearly new, with a shifting top, and fit for city use." And the following year a "fine bay horse" was offered for sale. 13 Chambers Street, advertised a "light trotting wagon, and one top wagon" for sale in 1855. George Carpenter, whose offices were at No. Similar ads appeared throughout the coming years. An advertisement in The New York Herald on Apsought a buyer for "Two superior light wagons, built to order." It noted "will be sold cheap, as the owner is about leaving for Europe. At least one of Sawyer's clients was financially comfortable enough to travel abroad. Here neighborhood residents kept their vehicles and horses. 15 became a boarding stables, known as the Club Stables, operated by a man named Sawyer. Behind the building were the necessary manure pits. Storage on the second floor would have held tack, hay and other supplies, while rooms for at least one stable employee were on the top floor. But a t just 19-feet wide the modest building made do with one bay door to the left with a pedestrian doorway next to it. Many of the stables erected later in the decade would feature a central bay door flanked by openings. Votey sold the newly-completed structure in 1832. 48 Wall Street, and his home on Grove Street. The location was inconvenient to both his office, which was far downtown at No. Instead, around the time of his marriage, he erected a brick-faced three-story stable on the lot. 15 Downing Street in Greenwich Village singe 1825, possibly with the intentions of someday erecting his home there. By now h e was now a vice-president in the New-York and Schuylkill Coal Company. Having relocated to New York City, he married the former Martha Coe in 1831. James Votey was born in 1805 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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