Daytonian in Manhattan

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Monday, January 3, 2022

The Lost Cooper-Hewitt House - 9 Lexington Avenue

image via ringwoodmanor.org In the first decades of the 19th century Peter Cooper almost single-handedly constructed his wooden house at t...

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Tom Miller: 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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