The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-28
HOUSE OF FLOWERS
TO Be CANDY SHOP
Thorley Building on 9Th Ave.
and Adjoining PropertyLeased
by Tiffin Products.
TOTAL RENTAL 1890, 900
Lessees to Erect New Building
Which Will Also House
Sherry Candy Co.

Az q result of s1.2so.oo leasing
transaction closed yesterday Fifth ave-
nue. Ia to lose its House OF Flowers"
the picturesque florist establishment
which Charles Thorley has maintained
at the northwest corner Of the avenue
and Forty-sixth street for the past few
years. This building. together with the
adjoining five story structure at West
Forty-sixth street, has been leased by
THIN Products, Inc, for period of
twenty-one years at an annual rental
OF 100000. On the site the new lessees
pan to erect a six story building to
house their own confectionery business
and that OF Louis Sherry, Inc.
The project will mean the obiiteration
OF one of the avenues brightest color
spots for the House of Flowers with
Its gay facade OF green and white, it's
window boxes planted with smilax and
other creeping vines and its slopinR red
roof. lent rural aspect to the corner
which could scarcely be duplicated by
any other commercial structure. Mr.
Thorley's lease on the building, for
"clch ne paid $4,000. expires on May
/ next at which time the work of de-
molition Will be begun in order to make
poFsible the erection Of the new struc-
ture.
The house Of flowers has had an In
teresting history. At one time II was
the residence of Perry Belmont and
prior to that 1t was the homestead OF
the harper family for seventy years.
Last year the Harper family sold the
property together with the building at
l West Forty-sixth street to Elmer r.
srnathers. who is the lessee In the pres
ent transaction in which the Douglas
Robinson. Charles S. Brown COMPANY
acted as the broker. The West Fortv-
sixth street building is occupied bv
Larrimore Il Company, wholesale drug
g1sts who. however. are erecting a new
building Tor themselves at Is and IT
West Forty-sixth street, which will
probably be completed next May.
Tho conclusion Of the new lease Ia an
otner step In the growth Of the THIN
PRODUCTS Company, S2O0O.OOo con-
Germ controlled by T. Coleman du Point.
and associated with the Greeley Square
Hotel Company, which operates the Wal
dorf. the McAlpin. the Vanderbilt and
Inc Claridge hotels A few weeks ago
tne company purchased the Stewart
speedometer plant in Long Island CITY
for the manufacture of its candy.
II Is understood that the Louis Sherry
confectionery business which is tenn
porarily located at Fifth avenue and
Forty-efghth street. will occupy the cor
ner store In the projected structure. Mr..
SHERRY recently sold his valuable leases
on the Sherry Building at the southwest
corner OF Fifth avenue and Forty-fourth
street to the Guaranty Trust Company
and took over the lease covering the trust
company's uptown quarters at the south
west corner of Filth avenue and Forty
third street At the time Mr. Sherry an
nounced his intention Of curtailing his
business and specializing in the confec-
tonery and catering branches
Inc remainder of the space in the
projected building not occupied by the
Sherry interests or the Tiffin Products,
Inc, will be rented out for Office pur-
poses.