LEADING  MANUFACTURERS  AND  MERCHANTS  CITY  OF  BROOKLYN


P. W. SCHMITZ

Designer and Maker of Artistic Furniture and Interior Decorations
Nos. 262 and 264 Court Street
Fulton and Flatbush Avenues.-

In making up a record of the mercantile establishments of Brooklyn, it 
is particularly desirable to mention those classes of houses which are 
the best representatives of each special line of source of supply: As a 
leading establishment in the city engaged in the manufacture of modern 
artistic furniture, etc., may be mentioned the popular and well-patronized 
house of Mr. P. W. Schmitz. 

This business was inaugurated by the present proprietor in 1853, since which 
period he has built up an extensive patronage from the refined, wealthy, and 
educated classes of society. The extensive show-rooms are marvels of elegance, 
taste, and beauty, and are fully stocked with a splendid assortment of modern 
artistic furniture, interior decorations, and handsome objects of art and use, 
arrayed with excellent effect, and constituting but a small portion of the 
stock of this reliable house. The greater part of the furniture is made from 
the rarest woods, and carved in the most workmanlike and artistic manner, from 
unique and original designs and patterns. 

The house makes a specialty of upholstering, importing many of its beautiful 
embroidered and baud-worked textures from the most celebrated establishments 
of Europe and the East. Many of the most elegant boudoirs, parlors, reception-rooms, 
libraries, and dining- rooms of the wealthy and refined in Brooklyn and its 
vicinity have been entirely furnished by Mr. Schmitz, who i a thorough artist, 
and possesses every facility to satisfy the most aesthetic tastes of lovers of 
really fine furniture and artistic decorations. 

Mr. Schmitz likewise attends carefully to fresco painting and decorating, and 
has gained an enviable reputation for his skill in the artistic blending of 
colors and shades, 

He is assisted by his son, Mr. F. 14. W. Schmitz, who is a young man of great 
promise and ability. Mr. P. W. Schmitz was born in Germany, but has resided in 
Brooklyn for the last thirty-five years, where he has made hosts of friends in 
consequence of his sound business principles and inflexible integrity. The future 
prospects of this responsible house are of the most promising character, and the
success attained is only the just reward of the proprietor's ability, enterprise, 
and industry. 


With Special Thanks to: Cathy Harrison Speciale
Transcribed exclusively for the Brooklyn Genealogical Information Pages: Nancy E Lutz

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