Daytonian in Manhattan

Thomas Benedict Clarke was successful as a banker and businessman, amassing a modest fortune by the last decades of the 19th century.  ...

As the Civil War was coming to an end, Calvert Vaux and his assistant architect Jacob Wrey Mould began working on designs for a Mineral Wa...

The Boulevard, as Broadway was called in the early days of the 20th century, promised great things to come. William Stoke’s elaborate Bea...

In the jazzy, early days of the 1920's James T. Lee had an idea – a big one. He envisioned an enormous bachelor hotel, as much a men’s c...

Photo by Francis Dzikowski Things weren’t going very well for Edward Kemeys after the Civil War. A former artillery officer, he tried his ...

 photo NYPL Collection There was a time when gentlemen were expected to belong to a men’s club, while ladies joined women’s clubs. In ...

When the Rose Hill Savings Bank opened for business in 1854 at the corner of 14th Street and Eighth Avenue, it was a insignificant institut...