Daytonian in Manhattan

  In 1945, Sixth Avenue, at the prompting of Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, was renamed the "Avenue of the Americas" to honor Pan-Am...

image via fis-architecture.com Having studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, brothers George and Edward Blum opened their architectur...

  Two years after ground was broken, in 1902 builder and developer John C. Umberfield completed construction of seven, 22-foot wide townhous...

  Although their neighbors to the west had been demolished for the coming Miller Highway, the Schmidts kept their house in relatively prim c...

As early as 1867, Elias Koch and his family occupied 215 East 9th Street (renumbered 310 in 1868).  The recently built, Italianate-style hou...

  In 1851, the family of Edward F. Saxton, a stockbroker, leased the newly-built house at 91 East 26th Street (renumbered 117 in 1867).  One...