Daytonian in Manhattan

  Real estate developer Dore Lyon hired Edward Angell to design four high-stooped rowhouses on the south side of West 77th Street between Br...

  image from the collection of the New-York Historical Society Born in 1787 in New Jersey, Azariah Ross served in the War of 1812, then beca...

  photo by Ajay Suresh In 1925, Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt had outlived the grande dames of her generation like Caroline Schermerhorn Astor an...

  The Greenwich Village building explosion that began in the 1820s often made speculative developers out of investors like hatmakers, banker...

  The double doors to the right mark the horsewalk that once provided access to the rear yards. The block of Vandam Street between Macdougal...

  In the first years after the Civil War, the enterprising Jonas Stoltz had two diverse professions.  He was an undertaker at 237 Bowery and...