Daytonian in Manhattan

Architect and artist Alexander Jackson Davis created this rendering around 1830 .  from the collection of the New York Public Library ...

The family of General Thomas H. Barber had lived in the old brownstone rowhouse at No. 45 East 68th Street for years when, following hi...

The cast iron areaway railing was updated in the 1840's or '50's with an anthemion-themed Greek Revival design. Perhaps no ...

As late as 1883 J. A. Pilkington operated his saloon from the old two-and-a-half story converted house on the southeast corner of Green...

photo by Helena Kubicka de Braganca, via www.stjohndivine.org When attorney John George Leake died on June 2, 1827 at the age of 75, h...

By the turn of the last century architect Ralph S. Townsend had designed a wide variety of buildings--small flats, private homes and hot...