Monday, July 26, 2021

The Scene of an Infamous Murder--the Lost 782 Eighth Avenue

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  A teenaged girl poses in the street in front of the infamous building.  To the far left a sliver of Ladder Company No. 4's fire house ...
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Saturday, July 24, 2021

The 1842 Henry Jarvis Raymond House - 134 West 13th Street

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  In 1842 the estate of John Remsen erected 12 brick-faced houses on West 13th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.   Among them was No...
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Friday, July 23, 2021

The 1872 James Condie House - 363 West 22nd Street

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  In 1840, James Condie arrived in New York City from Scotland at the age of 18.   The young man brought with him what the   American Druggi...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

The Casimir and Edithe Stralem Mansion - 14 East 82nd Street

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  Six years after Allan Jay Clark's death on March 15, 1895, his widow Emmie, sold their home to Edithe Alice Neustadt Stralem.   She wa...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

The Samuel R. Mabbatt House - 143 East 19th Street

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  Around 1854 a long row of brick-faced, Greek Revival homes were erected along the northern side of East 19th Street, between Third and Lex...
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021

The 1889 Frank William Olds House - 44 West 71st Street

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  John Farley was among the most prolific real estate developers in 19th century New York City.  In 1889 he commissioned the equally prolifi...
Monday, July 19, 2021

The Lost Murray Hill Baths - 113 West 42nd Street

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Russian and Turkish "vapor baths" had been fashionable for several decades by 1890.  Unlike the city-owned Free Public Baths which...