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The company was formed circa 1865 by E.A. Bradley of Montclair, New Jersey, and [FNU] Currier. It had offices at 54-56 Dey Street and a millwork factory on East 25th Street in New York City. The factory burned and was rebuilt in 1883 (Meriden Daily Republican, 5/10/1883). The company was the largest millwork company in the nation in the 1870s.
Bradley & Currier Building.
B&C produced an illustrated catalog circa 1872 that was advertised in multiple newspapers in the East (Harrisburg Telegraph, 11/22/1872; Cecil Whig, 11/23/1872; Wilmington Morning Star, 12/7/1872). In 1877, the company produced a new millwork catalog that was large in size (10.5x13 inches). Eight years later, after a slight change in the company name to the "Bradley & Currier Company, Limited", the company had a new catalog produced that interestingly included some recycled pages from the 1877 catalog.
Cover of the Bradley & Currier 1877/1885 catalog.
Doors of the 1870s in the Bradley & Currier catalog of 1877/85
 
Bradley & Currier pocket catalog covers of 1889 and 1893.
In 1890, the company expanded its offerings by beginning to produce mantels (Montclair Times, 5/10/1890). Its show rooms at 119-121 West 23rd Street displayed rooms with the mantels and other millwork produced by the company (New York Tribune, 5/20/1897).
By the mid-1890s, B&C had expanded into the construction business. In some instances, B&C built houses on spec and sold them when construction was completed (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 5/9/1896). In other cases, B&C was a sub-contractor, completing portions of the work building a new house. Its tile-layers went on strike in 1895 when some workers who were not in the union were brought in to work on a B&C construction project (New York Evening World, 2/7/1895). The company's expansion into real estate was successful, and the company was incorporated in 1897 with a capital stock of $200,000 to deal in real estate (Buffalo Evening News, 2/16/1897).
In the first decade of the twentieth century, the company was re-named the E. Bradley Currier Company (New York Tribune, 5/17/1908). Near the end of its existence, the company produced a catalog of mantels including a line of mantels imported from France. However, the company seems to have gone out of business by 1915.
Millwork catalogs at archive.org:
1889,
1893,
1894
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