Found 3 collections related to Real estate management -- New York (State) -- New York

Abner Lord Ely (1805-1871) was a New York City merchant and real estate manager. He founded the real estate management firm Horace S. Ely & Company in New York City. Collection consists of general and family correspondence, legal and financial papers, and other materials relating mainly to Ely's activities as a dry goods merchant, commission agent, and manager of real estate in New York City. Correspondence, 1832-1871, received from John B. Lesieur, a socially prominent American residing in Paris, France, concerns political events in France and Europe and properties in New York which were managed by Ely. Included is correspondence with members of the Mead family and with Ely's brother John, a lawyer, regarding cases involving mercantile law being tried before the United States Supreme Court. Also, miscellaneous legal and financial papers of other members of the Ely family and a history, 1955, of the firm founded by Ely written by his lineal descendant Richard Ely Nevius. less

Charles F. Osborn (b. 1818) was the son of Charles Osborn and Hulda Jarvis. Like his father, Osborn was active in New York City real estate and, often in partnership with his brother George, became an agent for many prominent citizens including Henry Livingston and Cortlandt Van Rensselaer The papers include letters between Osborn and George Abbe, Seth Couch, William Gibbons, Maturin Livingston, Henry Livingston, Mrs. Margaret Livingston, Robert H. Pruyn, Courtlandt Van Rensselaer, and G.M. Wilkins; and letters and accounts of the real estate firm Hardman and Osborn, 1856-1867 less