Daytonian in Manhattan

  photograph by  Dayle Vander Sande In 1892 developer Charles G. Judson completed a row of five upscale rowhouses on the north side of West ...

  from the collection of the New York Public Library In 1854 the infamous Tammany Hall politician Fernando Wood was elected mayor.  He immed...

  photograph by the author In 1860 a row of handsome Italianate style homes was erected on the south side of West 25th Street, between Ninth...

  In 1856 Rev. Augustus Valette Clarkson and his family moved into the 24-foot wide residence at 66 East 23rd Street (renumbered 112 in 1868...

  Benjamin Wise and Joseph Whitehead assuredly knew one another through the building trade.  Wise was a bricklayer and Whitehead a mason.  I...