LEADING MANUFACTURERS AND MERCHANTS CITY OF BROOKLYN SHARKEY'S Monument Works Fifth Avenue, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Streets.-

The career of Sharkey s Monument Works, located on Fifth avenue, Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets, one block east of the main entrance to Greenwood Cemetery, furnishes an illustration that experience, combined with ability and skill, will speedily obtain the recognition of the public and lead on to substantial and permanent success. These are the largest works here as well as among the oldest, having been established in 1843. The proprietor, Mr. Sharkey, is a Brooklyn man by birth, and training, and is a leader in his important line of trade in this city. He occupies large and commodious premises covering some 200x200 feet of ground, on which are erected four large frame factory buildings, with a handsome warehouse two stories high and 50x25 feet in dimensions, one story containing fine statuary, and the other devoted to planning and designing memorial and cemetery improvements. In the latter two draughtsmen are constantly employed. Every branch of the business is thoroughly equipped and under the most competent management, while employment is furnished to twenty-five skilled hands at the shops here in finishing, besides a large number at the quarries in preparatory cutting and in completing orders for export. Mr. Sharkey is at all times prepared to furnish marble and granite monuments of any grade, from the plainest to the most costly, devoting particular attention to cemetery and memorial work of all kinds. He imports largely of Italian marble for statuary work, also of Scotch granite, and handles the best grades of light, dark, and red granite from the quarries in Quincy, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont, and from foreign ports. Specimens of his artistic handiwork exhibit decided genius, not only in execution, but also in design, and as illustrations of this fact we refer our readers to the monuments furnished for Brooklyn residents in Green-wood Cemetery by Mr. Sharkey: -Geo. H. Nichols family tomb, solid granite exterior, with highly polished parti- colored marble interior, costing $25 000 -Ludlow monument and enclosure -Dan'l D. Lord's -Chas. Dennis' -Hazlehurst family's -Jas. Humphrey's -Henderson's (late of the Post) -Chas. Christmas' -E. D. Bushnell's -Judge Garrison monumental column, made of red and gray granite, extremely graceful and imposing in size; -Mr. John Francis, of granite, all polished, twenty-five feet high, and costing $4,000 -John H. Noe's granite monument, all polished, twenty-four feet, costing $4,500 -Kayser marble monument temple. The number of memorial structures in different cemeteries already exceed three thousand, and among these are some costing $25,000 to $75,000. Estimates and original designs are promptly furnished for all kinds of monumental and church memorial work, and orders are filled at the shortest notice and at fair and reasonable rates. The trade of the house extends throughout all the United States, and also Mexico, South America, and Africa. The advantages possessed by Mr. Sharkey for prompt and satisfactory work are not surpassed by any of his contemporaries, and entitle him to the confidence and patronage of all. For filling orders promptly and to supply a large export trade, the heaviest stock of prepared work is carried of any single house in the United States. With Special Thanks to: Cathy Harrison Speciale Transcribed exclusively for the Brooklyn Genealogical Information Pages: Nancy E Lutz Back To BUSINESS PROGRESS Main Back To BUSINESS Main Return to BROOKLYN Info Main Page