Daytonian in Manhattan

  The socially prominent Rhinelander family traced its American roots to Philip Jacob Rhinelander, who arrived in the New World in 1686.  In...

  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...

  photo by the author In 1843, two years after construction of the Janes Renwick-designed Church of the Ascension was completed at Fifth Av...

The contrast of materials and colors is hidden beneath a misguided coat of paint on No. 844. The Aldhouse Taylor Building Company was ...

Somewhat beleaguered today, the house was once upscale.  A brownstone stoop originally led to the arched doorway, now a window. In 188...