Daytonian in Manhattan

In October 1894 architect and developer Albert Wagner purchased the "old buildings" at Nos. 134 and 136 Spring Street, and at ...

When Samuel Dobbin erected his 18-foot wide house at No. 53 Wooster Street (just off the southwest corner of Broome Street) around 1825 ...

For decades the old house at No. 80 Wooster Street presented problems.  Called by The New York Times a "tramp lodging house" ...

It is possible that the house at No. 76 Wooster Street, between Spring and Broome Streets, always had a shop on the first floor.  As ea...

In the years following the Civil War the block of modest brick-faced homes on Wooster Street between Prince and Spring Street ha...

Before 1865 New York City’s fire fighting was done by a disorganized collection of volunteer companies.  When a fire broke out, ...