Daytonian in Manhattan

The stories behind the buildings, statues and other points of interest that make Manhattan fascinating.

Showing posts with label gramercy park. Show all posts

Showing posts with label gramercy park. Show all posts

Saturday, May 30, 2026

The 1910 Brogan Building - 251 Park Avenue South

photo by Feil Organization On December 11, 1909, the Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide reported that Charles Brogan, Inc. had h...

Friday, February 13, 2026

The 1855 Peter Gibson House - 139 East 18th Street

photograph by Carole Teller By the end of the 1840s, Gramercy Square (known today as Gramercy Park), was ringed with fine mansions. Its r...

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The James A. Foley House - 316 East 18th Street

A laudable recreation of the entrance and window frames replaced the lost originals. photo by Ted Leather An advertisement in the New Yo...

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

The Altered Alfred Schanck House - 318 Second Avenue

photograph by Ted Leather Alfred Schanck's first American ancestor was Roelof Martense Schenck, who arrived in New Amsterdam from the ...

Thursday, July 3, 2025

The 1852 Catherine Stapleton House - 321 Second Avenue

The upper floor windows were almost assuredly originally framed in stone. photograph by Ted Leather The first of the mansions that would...

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Schwartz & Gross's 1930 44 Gramercy Park North

photograph by Lowell Cochran Clement E. Merowit was just 26 years old in 1929, yet he was president of the Merowit Construction Corporation...

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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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