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Friday, December 23, 2022

The Overwhelmingly Remodeled Lotos Club - 110 West 57th Street

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  The newly-built Lotos Club was a marvel of the brick workers' craft.   photo by Wurts Bros. from the The Brick Builder, 1909 (copyrigh...
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Saturday, December 21, 2019

A 1922 Make-Over - 131 West 21st Street

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In the mid-1870's the 22-foot wide, three-story brick residence at No. 131 West 21st Street was home to merchant Elmore Kent.  It  ...
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Saturday, September 5, 2015

Overlooked Art Deco -- No. 307 Fifth Avenue

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In 1853, three years after he married Elizabeth, the daughter of wealthy merchant Henry Remsen, Joseph Grafton built his brownstone m...
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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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