Monday, December 11, 2023

The Lost George Harrison Byrd House - 69 Park Avenue

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  A landau awaits in front of the Byrd house on March 26, 1902.  from the collection of the New York Transit Museum George Harrison Byrd was...
Saturday, December 9, 2023

The Campe Building - 85 Franklin Street

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In 1860, John Mack began construction of a five-story, marble faced loft and store building at 85 Franklin Street in the neighborhood that w...
Friday, December 8, 2023

The 1840 J. Lee Smith House - 29 Bank Street

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  Like many other Greenwich Village merchants and businessmen, William Harsell invested in real estate as the formerly bucolic hamlet expand...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

The 1906 Arthur Gibb House - 14 East 55th Street

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  photograph by the author Around 1870, a four-story, high-stoop brownstone was erected at 14 East 55th Street.  Midblock between Fifth and ...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

The 1854 No. 348 West 20th Street

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  The first floor, originally rusticated, has been smoothed over. James N. Wells was highly instrumental in the development of the Clement C...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023

The Alexander and Augusta Boehm House - 263 West 93rd Street

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  The Boehm house is the middle of the three. Brothers William W. and Thomas M. Hall were prolific developers at the turn of the last centur...
Monday, December 4, 2023

The Lost East Side Airline Terminal - First Avenue and 37th Street

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  The Manhattan Post Card Publishing Co. produced this image of the newly-completed terminal in 1953. At mid-century, the Airlines Terminal ...