Daytonian in Manhattan

photo by Alice Lum In 1878 Miers Coryell, an expert in marine engines, and his wife Marie commissioned architect Bruce Price -- who wo...

The Meer Boathouse -- photo Project for Public Spaces When Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won the commission to design Central Park...

One of the Macy's 2010 Broadway side windows Samuel Lord and George W. Taylor moved their successful dry goods business into their ne...

In 1920 Thomas J. Healy had big plans. The Irishman had come to New York in 1886 at the age of 15 and by the time the First World War had en...

Christmas Eve of 1931 was not an especially happy time in New York City. The Great Depression was at its height. Fully one-third of the man...

General Ulysses S. Grant took rooms at the St. Denis Hotel after the Civil War so he could quietly work on his memoirs. The general, ...

Unmarried men in Manhattan faced a problem when it came to finding housing in the late 19th Century. Bachelors were not generally welcomed ...