Daytonian in Manhattan

By the first years of the 18th century the Fighting Cocks tavern operated at No. 24 Water Street--the street so named because the river...

Like several firms, Lamb & Rich sometimes acted not only as the architects, but the developers as the new Upper West Side suburb too...

  In 1935 when Berenice Abbott took this photograph, No. 21 (left) was wondrously intact, as was the former home of Dr. Edward L. Partrid...

John H. Scheel lived in the three-story brownstone house at No. 121 East 83rd Street in the 1890s.  He was treasurer of the Yorkville Di...

 Thomas Suffern, a retired linen merchant, had become highly involved in real estate development by the late 1850s.  Where brick or woode...

In the 1870s developer James Kent was keeping Henry Ferbach, busy.  In 1870, for instance, the architect simultaneously designed cast ir...

The sidewalk cascades dramatically down to West 158th Street. In the years following the end of World War I the rowhouses of the Audubo...