Daytonian in Manhattan

  photo by Deansfa In the late 19th century, the soot-belching locomotives that ran down the middle of Park Avenue made the thoroughfare una...

  Born in Austria, architect Sylvan Bien emigrated to San Francisco to work on the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.  He relocated to New York...

  photograph by Carole Teller In 1811, streets were laid out on paper that dissected land owned by Nicholas and Elizabeth Fish.  Within two ...

  image via realtor.com In 1867, just two years after John and David Jardine formed their architectural office of D. & J. Jardine, build...

  photo by Anthony Bellov In 1889, Diedrich Tragman hired architect John C. Burne to design two identical apartment buildings at 210 and 212...

  Charles Von Urban photographed the vintage structure in 1932.  from the collection of the New York Public Library. I n the years just foll...