Daytonian in Manhattan

  photograph by Byron Company, from the collection of the Museum of the City of New Yor k William Y. Mortimer leased a 50-foot-wide parcel o...

photograph by Velvet In 1869 construction began on the seven-story Excelsior Buildings stretching from  No. 216 through 226 on  the so...

Sarah J. Doying and her husband Ira E. Doying had an interesting relationship.  Although they lived in Summit, New Jersey, both were hi...

Philip G. Hubert arrived in Cincinnati from his native France in 1849, at the age of 19.   His profession as a teacher of French—whic...