Daytonian in Manhattan

  image by John m. August Will, 1898 from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York On October 8, 1835 a group of affluent men pe...

  image via centurionre.com The fashionable tenor of the Mercer Street block between Canal and Grand Streets in the early 19th century was e...

  The building boom that followed the end of the Civil War transformed the block of Mercer Street between Canal and Grand Street from one of...

  image via premierequities.com In 1866 the trustees of the estate of Charlotte Gomez contracted the architectural firm of Ritch & Griff...

  Born in 1810, Amos R. Eno started out in the dry goods business on Pearl Street.   The New York Times  said decades later, "While mak...

In 1869 Manhattan's theater district had moved northward from the neighborhood which would later be called Soho.   That year the Br...