Fellows Company Building
30 Christopher Street | also 155 Waverly Place, 24 Christopher Street | West Village | built 1907
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1901
The Fellows medicine company is listed at 26 Christopher Street by 1901
Fellows, a patent-medicine maker famed for its Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites, kept its New York office at 48 Vesey Street until 1900. Advertisements from 1901 on give its address as 26 Christopher Street, six years before the present corner building replaced the smaller buildings on the lot. A 1904 city directory lists Fellows Co. as a New York corporation at the Christopher Street address.
Source: baybottles.com
- 1907
Waverly Realty builds a seven-story factory and office building for the Fellows Company
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The Waverly Realty Company put up this building in 1907, replacing three smaller buildings on the corner lot. It was designed to house the Fellows Company of New York, makers of the Syrup of Hypophosphites, which medical journals of the day advertised under the Christopher Street address. It stayed in factory and office use for many decades; by 1974 it had been converted to residences.
Source: Village Preservation
- 1907
Jardine, Kent & Jardine give the Fellows Building a stone base and brick piers
The 1969 district report describes the seven-story Fellows (Company) Building as a steel structure erected in 1907 for the Waverly Realty Co. by Jardine, Kent & Jardine, adjoining the Waverly Building. A stone base two stories tall carries vertical brick piers, the windows are square-headed except at the fifth floor, and a severely simple sheet-metal cornice crowns the seventh.
- 1962
Fellows Medical Manufacturing merges with a Detroit firm and leaves Christopher Street
The company, listed at 26 Christopher Street through the late 1950s, merged in the early 1960s with Testagar & Co., a Detroit drug firm that had long held a heavy stock interest in it. A Detroit Free Press item of December 20, 1962 says the Fellows manufacturing would be brought to Detroit. At the time it made prescription drugs and Fellows Syrup, a bitter tonic.
Source: baybottles.com
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