Daytonian in Manhattan

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

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

The Irving School - 35 West 84th Street

Charles and Anna McDonald were a successful husband-and-wife real estate development team in the latter part of the 19th century, focusing...

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

The 1890 Emil Rinke House - 145 West 78th Street

In 1889 developers Perez M. Stewart and Charles McDonald hired architect Henry L. Harris to design an ambitious row of ten brownstone-fron...

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

The 1890 Elmer E. Hartzell House - 141 West 78th Street

In 1889 developers Charles McDonald and Perez M. Stewart, normally rivals, joined forces to erect a row of ten stone-faced homes along Wes...

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

The William W. Farmer House - 106 West 78th Street

In 1891, at a time when speculative developers were erecting long rows of houses on the Upper West Side, some nearly engulfing entire b...

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Henry L. Harris's 1887 No. 31 West 84th Street

Charles and Anna McDonald were a successful husband-and-wife development team in the latter part of the 19th century, focusing much of ...

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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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