Daytonian in Manhattan

The stories behind the buildings, statues and other points of interest that make Manhattan fascinating.

Monday, January 23, 2012

The Lost Chapin Home for the Aged and Infirm - 66th Street and Lexington Ave.

The Home in 1876 -- print from NYPL Collection Edwin H. Chapin was the pastor of the Fifth Avenue Universalist Church when his wife and...

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Two Federal Gems -- Nos. 37 and 39 Charlton Street

The third floor additions are evident in the change of brick color -- photo by Alice Lum In 1820 just south of the tiny village of Green...

Friday, January 20, 2012

No. 51 Barrow Street -- Home to a Hero, a Radical, and a Broken Heart

Nearly two centuries of wear are evident in the brownstone threshold. The sleepy village of Greenwich became a refuge when yellow fever r...

Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Elaborate No. 574 Fifth Avenue

photo by Alice Lum A week before Christmas in 1879 the parlor of W. B. Shattuck at No. 574 Fifth Avenue was bedecked with flowers and ot...

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

New York and the Painfully-Correct Promenade

By 1872 Fifth Avenue itself had become a promenade on Sundays -- "Lights & Shadows of New York" 1872 by James D. McCabe (co...

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

The 1901 Beaux Arts Hotel Collingwood -- No. 43 West 35th Street

In 1901 the blocks just west of Fifth Avenue around 34 th Street were gradually changing. The Astor mansions on Fifth Avenue between...

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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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