Daytonian in Manhattan

  In 1817 John Jacob Astor I took over the land lease of Aaron Burr's country estate, Richmond Hill, from Trinity Church.  Within a deca...

  photo by Godsfriendchuck Born in Austria, architect Sylvan Bien emigrated to San Francisco to work on the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. ...

  In September 1922, architect Sidney P. Oppenheim filed plans to dramatically remodel a "four story brick tenement" for the West ...

photograph by Deansfa The last quarter of the 19th century saw magnificent mansions rise along Riverside Drive.  Mary Alicia Vanderbilt La B...

  photograph by Byron Company, from the collection of the Museum of the City of New Yor k William Y. Mortimer leased a 50-foot-wide parcel o...