Daytonian in Manhattan

The stories behind the buildings, statues and other points of interest that make Manhattan fascinating.

Saturday, June 10, 2023

The Mutilated Black, Starr & Frost Building - 594 Fifth Avenue

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  Architecture, December 1912 (copyright expired) The jewelry firm of Black, Starr & Frost traced its origins to 1810 when the silversmi...
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Friday, June 9, 2023

Schneider & Herter's 1889 229 East 10th Street

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  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...
Thursday, June 8, 2023

The R. H. Macy & Co. Annex - 56 West 14th Street

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  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...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

The Irvin Hotel for Women - 308 West 30th Street

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  Following the death of her husband, banker Richard Irvin, in 1896, Mary Morris Irwin focused greatly on philanthropic work.  By the outbre...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

The Charles F. Bauerdorf House - 625 West End Avenue

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