| Joseph P. Day Residence 34 Gramercy Park New York, N.Y. 10003 Joseph P. Day (1874-1944) was a real estate broker, appraiser and pioneer auctioneer. Born in New York City, Joseph was the son of John W. and Catherine A. Hayes Day. His father was a manufacturer of soda water and died when the boy was 5 years old. Following years of obscure struggle, much work and very little pay, Joseph entered the real estate field when he was 21 years old. His first great real estate coup came in 1907, when he sold 2,000 lots in six of the most successful lot sales ever held in New York City. From then on his career was one tremendous sale after another. During the three years ending on December 31, 1909, he had sold at auction more than $100,000,000 worth of property. He conducted the auction sale of the late Henry Astor estate in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Astor, and conducted the record-breaking auction sale of part of the Sheepshead Bay-Harkness estate in 1923. Over a period of more than fifty years, Joseph Day sold about one-third of the Bronx, one-third of Queens, a generous slice of Brooklyn, and vast property in Westchester and North New Jersey. He also developed San Clemente, California, a project including 500 buildings and 1,000 residences. Mr. Day's first wife, the former Pauline M. Pope, whom he married in 1898, died in 1932. They had five children: four sons and one daughter. Mr. Day married his second wife, the former Mrs. Louisa Young Cole, in 1942. The family had two main homes, a city home at 34 Gramercy Park, and the family estate, Pleasant Days, in Short Hills, New Jersey. Joseph P. Day died on April 10, 1944, at the age of 70. |
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