LEADING  MANUFACTURERS  AND  MERCHANTS  CITY  OF  BROOKLYN


Adam SCHULZ

Furniture Emporium
Nos. 225 and 227 Grand Street, corner of Roebling Street (late Sixth Street).-

Mr. Adam Schulz has been established here since 1871, and has gained a reputation 
in his line of trade second to no other dealer in the city. His business premises 
are very extensive, embracing two four-story brick buildings and basements at 
Nos. 225 and 227 Grand street, corner of Roebling street (late Sixth street). 

These buildings have a frontage of 50 feet and a depth of 100 feet. He also occupies 
the adjoining store and basement, 25x100 feet, No. 229 Grand street, the store 
of which is used for the display of carpets, oil-cloths, mats and matting, and a 
full line of rugs, lace curtains, piano covers, etc. In the basement of this 
building is shown a desirable assortment of parlor and cooking stoves and all 
cooking utensils. On the first floor of the corner building are displayed a 
first-class variety of marble-top bedroom suits, marble-top tables, and separate 
dressing bureaus, also a line of buffets, bookcases, wardrobes, and folding beds. 

On the second floor over fifty parlor suits are displayed, remarkable for elegance 
and superb workmanship, partially manufactured under his personal supervision, also 
a large variety of pier-glasses, hall-racks, and window-stands; on the third floor 
will be found a variety of enameled bed-room suits in all colors and designs, and a 
full line of all makes of single and bed lounges, while the fourth floor is utilized 
as the carpet making and the surplus stock department. 

The basement of this building embraces a large bedding department and all styles 
of bedsteads, chairs, bureaus, washstands, refrigerators, cribs and cradles, extension 
and kitchen tables The stock carried is always extensive and first-class, and the 
facilities for supplying the best goods in the market in this line at bottom prices 
are unsurpassed. 

Mr. Schulz is a wide awake, pushing business man, clear-headed in all his undertakings, 
and much esteemed in commercial circles. 

He has, besides this establishment, three branch houses 
one at No. 71 Newark avenue, Jersey City, N. J., 
one at No. 167 Washington Street, Hoboken, N.J., 
and the other at Avenue D and Twenty-fifth Street, Bayonne City, N.J. 

He gives employment to fifty-four hands and enjoys a large trade, having patrons in 
all parts of New York State.


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

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