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Showing posts with label lenox avenue. Show all posts

Showing posts with label lenox avenue. Show all posts

Thursday, March 30, 2017

2nd Collegiate Reformed Church - Lenox Avenue and 123rd St

In 1660, just 35 years after the Dutch West India Company erected the fort that would become New Amsterdam, Dutch pioneers built a small...

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

The Edward Roberts Mansion - No. 241 Lenox Avenue

On May 21, 1887 The Record & Guide drew readers' attention to "The Transformation of a Beautiful District." The ar...

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Church of the Holy Trinity (St. Martin's Church) - 230 Lenox Avenue

The Lenox Avenue neighborhood above 120th street was one of wealthy professionals in 1888. Comfortable homes, some worthy to be called ...

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

The Harlem Club - Lenox Avenue and 123rd Street

On June 22, 1889, as the Harlem Club's new headquarters was nearing completion at the southwest corner of Lenox Avenue and 123rd St...

Friday, August 29, 2014

The 1891 Chas. E. Campbell House -- No. 212 Lenox Avenue

No. 212 was one of a row of four dwellings designed as a whole. photo by Nicolas Lemery Nantel / salokin.com By the time developers J...

Thursday, August 21, 2014

The Victor Hugo Jackson House -- No. 240 Lenox Avenue

photograph by Nicolas Lemery Nantel / salokin.com Since the land was acquired by New York City in 1839 until the 1870s, Mount Morri...

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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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