Daytonian in Manhattan

photo by Beyond My Ken New York, 1894, Illustrated commented on "a rising and well-known architect," Louis Korn.  The articl...

The entrance, now floating above what was once the basement door, originally wore an arched pediment; removed for an air conditioner. A...

Until 1905 the narrow gap to the right was described in property documents as an alley. According to Ambrose M. Shotwell in his 1897  O...

Born on September 6, 1850, Harriet Mears Starin came from an old New York family; her ancestors first arriving in America in 1696.  Her ...

Period photographs show the doorway, above a shallow stoop at the right, a centered window, and the service entrance to the left, where t...

The sign for Tony Pastor's Theatre is above the eastern entrance (left)   from the collection of the New-York Historical Society The...