Daytonian in Manhattan

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

Saturday, January 25, 2020

The J. E. Winterbottom Funeral Parlor - 966 6th Avenue

The undertaking business of J. Winterbottom & Sons was founded around 1849. It was described by New York's Great Industries ...

Friday, January 24, 2020

The Unrecognizable 1847 Moses Maynard, Jr. House - 13 Gramercy Park So.

The first houses began rising around the recently-completed Gramercy Park (or Gramercy Place as it was sometimes called) in the early 1...

Thursday, January 23, 2020

The 1906 Morgan Library - 33 East 36th Street

photo by Beyond My Ken In the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was not uncommon for millionaire collectors to have art galleries...

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

The Edward W. Sparrow House - 41 East 68th Street

By any estimation Edward Wheeler Sparrow had already led a remarkable life by the turn of the last century. Born to well-to-do parent...

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

An Elegant Shell - Keith's 81st Street Theatre, Broadway at 81st Street

Born in Dundee, Scotland, Thomas W. Lamb arrived in New York in 1883 at the age of 12 and went on to study architecture at the Cooper ...

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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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