Daytonian in Manhattan

from the collection of the New-York Historical Society In 1754 the New York Society Library was formed.  It occupied rooms in City Hall (lat...

  image via transparentcity.com Among the Upper Manhattan's elegant country mansions in the 18th century was Prospect Hall,  located at ...

  On March 2, 1901 the Real Estate Record & Guide reported that Charles F. Rogers had leased "the new hotel building...on the east...

  In 1854 developer William Berrian's vacant, 32-foot-wide parcel on the south side of West 22nd Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues ...

  James Franklin Doughty Lanier founded the banking firm Winslow, Lanier & Co.  He had an impressive American pedigree, his earliest anc...

Charles Berg was not only a real estate developer, he was a trained architect, as well.  With Edward H. Clark he formed the architectural fi...