Daytonian in Manhattan

The ground floor was an outstanding example of a 19th century saloon front.  photograph by Edward Loomis Davenport Seymour from the collecti...

  photo by Anthony Bellov Unlike some architects, Julius Kastner did not necessarily specialize.  Instead, his works ranged from warehouses ...

On August 1, 1858, Hamilton Fish conveyed a portion of the triangular-shaped property he inherited from his mother, Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fis...

  In 1819 a wooden building was erected at 23-25 Sullivan Street by carpenter David Mulford, who purchased the lot in 1807.  It was one of t...

  Merchant Joseph Peabody and his family moved into the newly completed house at 77 East 26th Street in 1859.  (The address would be changed...

  Born in Sussex, England in 1852, Frank Eugene Wise entered his father's construction firm, the Nathaniel Wise Company as a young man. ...

from the collection of the New York Public Library   Actor, playwright and dramatist Henry J. Conway opened his version of Harriet Beecher S...