Daytonian in Manhattan

   photo by Byron Company, from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York   Organized in 1838, in 1849 the Rose Hill Church chang...

  photo by Lowell Cochrane On December 19, 1939, The New York Sun titled an article, "Apartments for Church Plot."  The previous y...

  photograph by Ted Leather The developing Murray Hill district drew millionaires like the Phelps and Dodge families in the 1840s.  By the o...

In 1914, millionaire real estate operator Robert W. Goelet announced that he would erect a "16-story brick fireproof store and loft bui...

  In the early 1920s, a  new concept began sweeping metropolitan areas--the "skyscraper church."  Congregations from coast to coas...

  At the turn of the last century, the era of refined mansions and stately carriages along the Madison Avenue block between 32nd and 33rd St...