Daytonian in Manhattan

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Showing posts with label thomas h. poole. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 27, 2025

Thomas Poole's 1906 Harlem (Ascension) Presbyterian Church - 15 Mount Morris Park West

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photograph by Jim Henderson   When the Harlem Presbyterian Church was organized on February 22, 1844, the district was bucolic, its landscap...
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Thursday, September 26, 2019

The Church of St. Catherine of Genoa - 504 West 153rd Street

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On April 28, 1888 the Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide reported "A new Roman Catholic Church is to be built at 10...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

The Church of the Holy Name of Jesus - 207 West 96th Street

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photograph by the author According to the 1914 book The Catholic Church in the United States of America , "In 1867, the West Side ...
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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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