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Saturday, May 29, 2010

The 1884 Villard Houses

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from the collection of the New York Public Library In 1853, at the age of 18, Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard came to the U.S. from h...
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Born in Dayton, Ohio, I relocated to New York city in 1978. An author, blogger, lecturer and historian, I have written the histories of more than 5,000 locations in Manhattan (as of March 2025). I am the author of "Seeking New York" and "Seeking Chicago," and contributed to several other books, and consulted for pieces in Architectural Digest, The New York Times, and similar publications..
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