Daytonian in Manhattan

  photograph by Jim Henderson Born in November 1879 to Clarence Cary and the former Elisabeth M. Potter, Guy Fairfax Cary was the great-gran...

  Samuel Canby Paxson married Elizabeth Drinker on July 5, 1827.  The couple had eight children, only four of whom had survived when they mo...

  The advertisement for 304 West 107th Street in the New York Herald on October 19, 1909 called the residence, "well planned and attra...

  from the collection of the New York Public Library In the second half of the 19th century, small political clubs dotted the city.  It was ...

  photograph by Anthony Bellov In 1902, the northern edge of Manhattan's Chelsea district was just seeing the influx of industry.  That ...

Fr ederick P. James was the head of the banking and brokerage firm of F. P. James & Co.  In 1854, he erected three upscale homes on the ...