Daytonian in Manhattan

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, ...

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

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

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

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...

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