Daytonian in Manhattan

  photograph by Anthony Bellov Born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany in 1851, John P. Schuchman arrived in New York City in 1868.  He became an a...

John G. Prague's profession was both architect and developer.  In the late 19th century he designed and built scores of rowhouses on Man...

  In March 1881, developer John Graham & Sons commissioned prolific architect John G. Prague to design four upscale homes on the south s...

  Prolific architect John G. Prague, who would design hundreds of Manhattan rowhouses before the 1890s, was hired in 1868 by speculative dev...

Although the first-floor window has been bricked over, the house is overall remarkably intact. John G. Prague and Peter J. Brennan were no d...

  A stone stoop, at far left, originally rose to a parlor floor entrance. The land around the corner of Columbus Avenue and 86 th  Street wa...