Daytonian in Manhattan

  Architecture, December 1912 (copyright expired) The jewelry firm of Black, Starr & Frost traced its origins to 1810 when the silversmi...

  In the 1840s, the block of East 10th Street between First and Second Avenues was lined with elegant four-story brick homes.  But the waves...

  In July 1871, when Albert Levi broke ground for a four-story brick store at 56 West 14th Street, just east of Sixth Avenue, the district h...

  Following the death of her husband, banker Richard Irvin, in 1896, Mary Morris Irwin focused greatly on philanthropic work.  By the outbre...

  photograph by the author Developers Terence Farley's Sons completed a row of seven high-end homes that wrapped the northeast corner of...