Equitable Appraisal Company records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
The Equitable Appraisal Company, founded in 1904 in New York City, provided asset evaluation services. In the 1920s-1940s the company engaged in the valuation of property for insurance, estate and tax purposes. Officers were William G. Pilgrim, president, and Michael J. O'Haren, secretary-treasurer. Between 1920 and 1943 the company offices were located at 145 Nassau Street in New York City. Records consist of inventories with room-by-room appraisals of homes, estates, institutional offices, buildings, and churches; working papers for appraisals of real property of clients such as John D. Rockefeller; several letters; and a will. Other clients included the Society for Ethical Culture, Simon Guggenheim, Artemus Ward, Ralph Pulitzer, the F.W. Woolworth Estate, J.P. Morgan, and the Wheeling Public Museum.
Equitable Appraisal Company, Inc., a local asset valuation firm including among its clients the owners of the Rockfeller Center, is now located at 19 E 75th St.and its president is Carl Thomson.
The Equitable Appraisal Company was founded in 1904 (and incorporated later in the century) as a small operating company to provide asset evaluation services. In the second, third and fourth decades of the twentieth century it was engaged in the valuation of property for insurance, estate and tax purposes. Its officers were William G. Pilgram, president, and Michael J. O'Haren, secretary-treasurer. Between 1920 and 1943 its offices were located at 145 Nassau Street in New York City, the city in which it appears to have been founded.
The records of the Equitable Appraisal Company consist of copies of inventories with room-by-room appraisals of homes, estates, institutional offices or buildings and churches, working papers for appraisals of the real property of clients such as John D. Rockefeller, a few letters and one will. Clients included also the Society for Ethical Culture, Simon Guggenheim Artemus. Ward, Ralph Pulitzer, F. W. Woolworth Estate, J. P. Morgan and the Wheeling (W, VA.) Public Museum.
Received from the Equitable Appraisal Company, 1963
Accessioned by GRM