Daytonian in Manhattan

  The contracting firm of Breen & Mason was composed of  James R. Breen and Alfred G. Mason.  In 1881, they acquired the 40-foot-wide wo...

photo by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. In 1818 Robert Lenox paid the Corporation of the City of Ne...

  photograph by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York In 1879, Harley Thomas Procter was inspired by a passa...

  Photograph by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York In reporting on the upcoming June wedding of Helen Reb...

  image by Jim Henderson Millionaire banker Frederick Dobbs Tappen died in his brownstone-fronted mansion at 49 East 68th Street on February...