Daytonian in Manhattan

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Showing posts with label king street. Show all posts

Showing posts with label king street. Show all posts

Friday, December 27, 2024

The Rev. Cornelius T. Demarest House - 21 King Street

Born in Tappan, New Jersey on January 23, 1786, Cornelius T. Demarest earned his degree in theology at Columbia University in 1804. He ma...

Saturday, July 6, 2024

The 1840 Samuel Martin House - 52 King Street

The original stoop railings wrapped around newels that perched upon the brownstone drums. On June 18, 1854, Elizabeth E. Martin married A...

Thursday, June 6, 2024

The William Christie House - 17 King Street

John Jacob Astor I paid "handsomely" for the former Aaron Burr estate, Richmond Hill in 1817. At the same time, he took over th...

Friday, May 24, 2024

The 1840 Ichabod Price House - 42 King Street

Born in 1781, Ichabod Price was a sergeant in the New York State Artillery Corps at the outbreak of the War of 1812. Decades later, the A...

Thursday, May 9, 2024

The Hugh Martin House - 20 King Street

King Street, named for Founding Father and member of the Continental Congress Rufus King, was laid out in 1817 by John Jacob Astor I on th...

Friday, March 15, 2024

The Barber Badger House - 15 King Street

In 1817 John Jacob Astor I paid Aaron Burr "handsomely," according to one source, for his Richmond Hill Estate slightly south o...

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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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