Daytonian in Manhattan

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

The R. H. Macy & Co. Annex - 56 West 14th Street

In July 1871, when Albert Levi broke ground for a four-story brick store at 56 West 14th Street, just east of Sixth Avenue, the district h...

Monday, August 23, 2021

The Lost Isaac Stern Mansion - 858 Fifth Avenue

The figure leaning on the areaway wall provides proportion to the massive home. American Architect & Building News, April 7, 1900 (co...

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

The 1903 Johnston Building (Nomad Hotel) - 1170 Broadway

Living in Stutgart, Germany did not impede Caroline H. Johnston's Manhattan real estate operations. She remotely purchased propert...

Saturday, August 10, 2019

The St. Francis Mission - 448 West 56th Street

At the turn of the last century the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood on Manhattan's west side was impoverished, dangerous, and crim...

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Schickel & Ditmars' 1905 32 West 22nd Street

The deep overhanging lintel above the doorway suggests that an ornamental railing once sat atop it. When the French-speaking congregat...

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Tom Miller: Born in Dayton, Ohio, I relocated to New York city in 1978. An author, blogger, lecturer and historian, I have written the histories of more than 5,000 locations in Manhattan (as of March 2025). I am the author of "Seeking New York" and "Seeking Chicago," and contributed to several other books, and consulted for pieces in Architectural Digest, The New York Times, and similar publications..

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