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Madison Avenue and 39th Street. L.O. Thompson & Co. opened their headquarters on the second floor of an edifice on 244 Madison Avenue, at the southwest corner of Madison Avenue and 38th Street. L.D. Tompkins leased the second floor of the Cameron Building at the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and 34th Street. South of 34th Street on Madison Avenue was a region where a number of prominent silk houses found new locations and signed extended leases. One of these was the R & H Simon Company which moved from 4th Avenue and 20th Street to 159 Madison Avenue. Another was Menke Kaufmann & Co., which removed from lower
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Broadway. Previously the Duplan Silk Corporation was located on the east side of
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Heminway Silk Company signed a twenty-year lease to occupy the store, basement, second, and third floors of a fourteen-story building at the northwest corner of Madison Avenue and 37th Street. The total rental was $ 1,000,000. Heminway Silk Company, which had a capitalization of $ 3,500,000,
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