Daytonian in Manhattan

photo by Alice Lum As 19 th century drew to a close the mansions of Manhattan’s wealthiest citizens crept further and further northward ...

With the advent of the 20th century came a problem for fire fighters in New York City – skyscrapers. Suddenly five-story buildings were bei...

photo Library of Congress As the 19 th century became the 20 th , Fifth Avenue around Madison Square was seriously changing.  Since the ...

At the turn of the century, when Fifth Avenue in the 30s was being transformed from an area of mansions to a high-end commercial distri...

The architect playfully used a variety of treatments-- a planar basement, rough-cut stone first floor, rusticated second, or...

photo by Alice Lum Czech and Slovak immigrants first settled in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and by the 1870s were firmly established...

Although both Federal homes are rare survivors, No. 488 (right) is less seriously-altered. In the early decades of the 19 th century, on...