Daytonian in Manhattan

  photograph by the author In 1860 a row of handsome Italianate style homes was erected on the south side of West 25th Street, between Ninth...

  In 1856 Rev. Augustus Valette Clarkson and his family moved into the 24-foot wide residence at 66 East 23rd Street (renumbered 112 in 1868...

  Benjamin Wise and Joseph Whitehead assuredly knew one another through the building trade.  Wise was a bricklayer and Whitehead a mason.  I...

  The Abingdon Square Hotel opened in 1892.  It engulfed the Bleecker Street blockfront from Abingdon Square to Bank Street.  (The block-lon...

  Clarence F. True, the Upper West Side's most prolific architect in the late 19th century, designed a group of seven houses in 1891 for...