Day and Meyer, Murry and Young Storage Corporation

This photo came from the Day and Meyer website.

In the top of the picture you can see the building. It came from this website.

            In the early 1900s a problem arose. People began to get wealthier and started to get more objects, like furniture, which created the problem of where to put the old things. Day and Meyer, Murry and Young had an answer to the problem. They created a place for wealthy people to store their most prized possessions and not have to worry about them being damaged or stolen. Their company had a custom building that was made to store portovaults, paintings and rugs, and then allow people to have easy access to their things.

This shows the way the building the
worked with storing the portovaults.
It came from this website

The Day and Meyer, Murry and Young Company answered this problem. In 1927 they built a custom building to store things. Within the building they had custom rails and elevators built to move, store, and house their portovaults. The portovaults were 7x7x11 and had 4 wheels under them in order to move them. They were designed to be able to be loaded on a truck and taken to a client’s home or apartment where they would be packed up and then rolled off of the truck and stored in the building. When the company first started a horse and a cart.

This photo shows
some women getting some
of the contents out of their
portovault. 

            They also stored some very expensive items in the basement. They had a special part in their basement built with the intentions of storing rugs. They built this area out of cedar wood in order to keeps moths out of the room and from eating the rugs. In another part of the basement they had a custom space for storing paintings. They have stored everything from multi million dollar paintings to family portraits for museums and private owners. In the third part of their basement there was an area made to store silver.

            They also have a special viewing room for paintings and rugs. It is made with custom lighting so that if the owner of the painting wants to sell it they can do it with ease. They also had a heated room in their basement where people could come and check their portovaults and get items out of them. When they first opened they would advertise “No hunting around in a cold warehouse.” By this they meant that if you wanted to come get an item out of your portovault, they would bring it to you in a warm room compared to how and most other places a person would have to find their things in a cold warehouse.

The building from a distance. This picture shows how it was
in New York. Its from this website.

            The Day and Meyer, Murry and Young building was created for the sole purpose of storing things. This was one of the first storage places of its time. The need for storing items was created through the rise of industrialism in the late 19^th and early 20^th century. The need for storing items is still a big business today. The Day and Meyer, Murry and Young corporation is still in business today in the same building.