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Friday, July 11, 2025

Robert Maynicke's 1903 130-132 Fifth Avenue

image via loopnet.com In 1874, piano maker Chickering & Sons invaded Manhattan's mansion district by erecting a piano showroom and...

Thursday, June 26, 2025

The 1903 Pinaud Building - 84-90 Fifth Avenue

image via markplace.vts.com In its "Building Intelligence" column on May 3, 1902, Architect and Architecture reported that deve...

Friday, December 13, 2024

Robert Maynicke's 1906 Yorkville Bank -- 1511 Third Avenue

image via realestate.union-investment.com Reinhold Van Der Emde was born in Germany on March 17, 1842. After studying the pharmaceutical ...

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Robert Maynicke's 1903 476 Broadway

In 1871 the two converted Federal style houses at Nos. 474 and 476 Broadway were demolished as the Soho neighborhood rapidly transfor...

Friday, August 30, 2019

The 1901 Panhard & Levassor Bldg - 230-232 West 13th Street

On December 8, 1901 The New York Herald reported that Jams S. Herman had bought the "two old buildings" at Nos. 230 and 232 ...

Saturday, December 30, 2017

The Estey Piano Building - 97 Fifth Avenue

Around May 1, 1893 Otto L. Braumuller, president of the Braumuller Piano Company, left the four-story house at the northeast corner of F...

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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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