Daytonian in Manhattan

  photograph by the author A long row of modest houses on the south side of East 31st Street between Second and Third Avenues was completed ...

  On November 11, 1856, Henry H. Keeler was married to Rachel C. Crane in "the Lafayette-place Church," as reported by the New-Yor...

  image via douglaselliman.com In the 17th century, the farm of Dutch settler Jacobus Hendrickson de Kype stretched northward along the East...

photograph by Anthony Bellov In the 1850s New York City had expanded northward into the Kips Bay district.  Around 1855, a trio of Anglo-Ita...

  photo by Anthony Bellov Around 1855, a long row of brick-faced homes was erected on the south side of East 33rd Street between Second and ...

  photograph by Anthony Bellov When he sat down to his drafting table to design a four-story house at 108 East 33rd Street (renumbered 153 i...