Daytonian in Manhattan

The stories behind the buildings, statues and other points of interest that make Manhattan fascinating.

Thursday, January 21, 2021

John C. Burne's 1890 260 West 17th Street

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On August 1, 1889 William C. Burne purchased the two two-story wooden houses at Nos. 258 and 260 West 17th Street from Newman Cowen, ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

The 1868 Marble-Faced 114 Franklin Street

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photo via streeteasy.com On April 18, 1868 a notice appeared in The New York Herald that read simply "For Sale--The Valuable Lot...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

The Rutgers Club - 314 West 91st Street

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  In June 1892 mansion architect C. P. H. Gilbert filed plans for a four-story brick and stone residence for attorney Charles DeHart Brower....
Monday, January 18, 2021

The Lost William B. Astor Sr. House - 32 Lafayette Place

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  from Magazine of American History, edited by Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, 1886 (copyright expired) Born in 1792, William Backhouse Astor's li...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

The James Iddings House - 52 Bond Street

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Even while horribly disfigured, the ca 1836 house manages to hint at its former elegance. Around 1807 Bond Street was laid out, but it would...
Friday, January 15, 2021

McKim, Mead & White's 1904 Tompkins Square Library - 331-333 East 10th Street

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In 1902 the Director of the New York Public Library related the story Andrew Carnegie had told him years before.  Carnegie had reminisced ab...
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