Daytonian in Manhattan

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

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Thursday, January 14, 2021

The Charles W. Romeyn Mansion - 61-63 East 64th Street

In 1880 developer E. T. Hatch completed construction of six high-stooped brown houses on the north side of East 64th Street, between Madis...

Friday, March 6, 2020

The United States Boarding Stables - 153-155 East 32nd Street

photograph by the author As the 18th century ended and the 19th began, the bucolic Kips Bay area was filled with the summer estates o...

Monday, February 15, 2016

The Lost Hoffman Arms -- 59th Street and Madison Avenue

American Architect & Building News, January 24, 1885 (copyright expired) In 1884 Edward Clark’s lavish apartment building, T...

Monday, May 25, 2015

The Lost Dakota Stables - 75th Street at Amsterdam Ave

A white-uniformed dustman heads to his two-wheels cart outside the Dakota Stables -- http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON055.htm ...

Saturday, June 14, 2014

The 1892 James F. Fargo House -- No. 120 East 37th Street

photo by Alice Lum On the afternoon of December 9, 1887 Mrs. A. D. Jaxon held “a private cake sale” in her brownstone home at N...

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Tom Miller: Born in Dayton, Ohio, I relocated to New York city in 1978. An author, blogger, lecturer and historian, I have written the histories of more than 5,000 locations in Manhattan (as of March 2025). I am the author of "Seeking New York" and "Seeking Chicago," and contributed to several other books, and consulted for pieces in Architectural Digest, The New York Times, and similar publications..

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