F. W. Devoe & Co., Colors & Varnishes (Advertisement)
Publisher F. W. Devoe & Co. American
Printer Joseph Laing & Co. American
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This advertisement centers on the Horatio Street factory building of F. W. Devoe & Co., a New York paint manufacturer. A company catalogue of 1892 that is also in the collection (51.585.1) traces its origins to William Post, a painter and glazier who sold paints at 43 Water Street between 1755 and 1770. Later owners changed the name and moved their offices to Fulton Street in 1855, establishing the factory shown here. A post Civil War boom allowed a six story structure to be built at 110-112 Horatio Street in 1882-83. Then the neighborhood's largest building, it now houses apartments.
