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Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 1d

Once home to wealthy families, this #Chelsea townhouse became Chelsea House--a home for single working women--in 1904. Today it holds 9 apts.
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The Helena and Charles McCann Mansion - 9 East 80th Street

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 2d

Transformed from a typical brownstone to a Gothic confection by S. E. Gage in 1899, this #UpperEastSide house became home to Woolworth heiress Helena McCann and husband Charles. It is home of the Korean Consulate today.
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Brothers David and John Jardine were partners in the prolific architectural firm D. & J. Jardine. In 1867, they acted as developers, as w...

The 1852 Isaac D. Brodek House - 333 East 18th Street

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Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 3d

Reconverted to a single family home in 2002, this Italianate rowhouse has little changed externally since 1852.
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photograph by Ted Leather In 1851 construction began on a long row of three-story-and-basement homes along the north side of East 18th Str...

The Frederick Wm. Saltzsieder Mansion - 324 West 108th Street

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 4d

Designed by Janes & Leo in 1898, this #UpperWestSide mansion was originally home to a wealthy brewer. Ironically, it became an alcoholism treatment center in 1975. It holds apts today.
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photograph by the author On November 5, 1898, the Real Estate Record & Guide titled an article, "Joseph A. Farley's New and Artistic Dwell...

The Lost Jane Engel Buildilng - 1025 Madison Avenue

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Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 5d

Designed by Roy C. Morris in 1933, the stylish Jane Engel Bldg stood only two decades, replaced by an apartment bldg.
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photo by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the New York Public Library. Like thousands of workers in the wake of the 1929 Wall Street Cra...

The Joseph Conselvea Pickney House - 73 St. Mark's Place

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 7d

Home to a wealthy family in 1845, by 1900 73 St. Mark's Pl was a rooming house where one young immigrant woman was forced into prostitution, called the "White Slave trade" It holds apts today.
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A creative brick frame, painted today, testifies to the original location of the entrance above the long-lost stoop. photograph by the au...

W. H. Hoffman's 1870 577 Hudson Street

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Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 8d

Built in 1870, this #GreenwichVillage house-and-store was home to the jazz club Village West for years starting in the 1980s.
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Henry Romer's coal yard sat at 577 Hudson Street at the end of the Civil War. On January 11, 1869, George Stevens and a companion entered R...

The Hiram and Rosalind Bloomingdale Mansion - 11 East 80th Street

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Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 9d

Designed by Schwartz & Gross for a dept store mogul, this Upper East Side mansion was later home to lyricist #StephenSondheim and author Dare Wright
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Born in 1875, Hiram Collenberger Bloomingdale was one of three sons of Lyman Bloomingdale, co-founder of Bloomingdale Brothers' department...

The 1927 Fred F. French Building - 551 Fifth Avenue

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 10d

Architects H. Douglas Ives and John Sloan embellished the Art Deco Fred F. French Bldg with huge, colorful terra cotta Mesopotamian inspired panels.
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image via akatsuki-d.com Born in 1883 the child of a single mother, Fred Fillmore French grew up in poverty in the Bronx. The New York Ti...

Arthur Bates Jennings's 1887 133 West 87th Street

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Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 11d

Composer Wendy Carlos lived in this noteworthy Queen Anne style rowhouse starting in 1969. While living here she composed the scores of "Clockwork Orange," "Tron," and other films.
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On June 21, 1884, The Record & Guide reported that developer Charles L. Guilleaume, "will shortly commence the erection of seven three-sto...

The Lost Ottendorfer "Pagoda" - Riverside Park and 136th Street

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 12d

Likely the work of Jacob Wrey Mould, the Ottendorfer family's pleasure pavilion on their summer estate on the Hudson awed visitors. It was demolished in 1904.
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image via jstor.org Born in Trillick, County Tyrone, Ireland in 1806, Eugene Kelly arrived in New York City at the age of 20 with, accordi...

The 1844 Cornelius G. Vanriper House - 28 Jones Street

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 14d

After decades of being a private house, 28 Jones St became the Greenwich Handicraft School in 1906. Today is holds 4 apts.
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In 1843, construction of a row of Greek Revival-style homes along Jones Street near Bleecker Street was commenced. Although essentially i...

The 1841 John Valentine House - 45 East Third Street

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Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 15d

Built as a high-stooped brownstone in 1886, 10 E 78th got a stoic brick facade in 1946, and a remarkable neo-Beaux Arts front in 2018.
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Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 16d

Well-known cornetist and composer Charles J. F. Sohst gave his Greek Revival house at 45 E 3d St a Queen Anne style makeover in 1881. It is a two-family home today.
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Around 1840, something, possibly a devastating fire, happened to the 20-foot wide house at 45 Third Street (it would be about a decade be...

Fort Washington Presbyterian Church - 21 Wadsworth Avenue

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 17d

Thomas S. Hastings designed this neo-Georgian #Harlem church in 1912, shortly after the death of his partner John Carrere.
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photo by Beyond My Ken In 1883, two years after Reverend Thomas Samuel Hastings stepped down as its pastor, the West Presbyterian Church mov...

Thom & Wilson's 1890 59 West 87th Street

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 18d

Dr. Ignatz Griebl operated a Nazi spy network in this #UpperWestSide building in the 1930s. After fleeing to Germany, he was a fugitive until 1950. There is one apartment per floor in the bldg today.
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Real estate developer Charles Gahren commissioned Thom & Wilson to design a row of five-story flats on the northeast corner of Ninth Avenu...

The Lost Howard's Hotel - 176 Broadway

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 19d

Built in 1839, the Howard's Hotel vied with the Astor House in luxury. After hosting the likes of John Tyler, it was razed in 1898.
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Print around 1845 by Charles Parsons, from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. In 1839, a year after John Jacob Astor I ...

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 21d

In Kansas City on May 7, 1918, Theodore Roosevelt, in criticizing Woodrow Wilson, said:

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

The Prison Association of N.Y. Building - 135 East 15th Street

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 21d

Erected around 1850, this former private home became hdqrs of the Prison Assoc in 1887 and remained into the 21st c. It is now a single family home.
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The family of Ebenezer Doughty most likely leased the upscale house at 185 East 15th Street (renumbered 135 in 1868) in 1853. Doughty had...

The Edward N. Ebbets House - 36 East Third Street

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 22d

Designed in the Greek Revival style, this East Village house got a Queen Anne makeover in 1886. It was home to gangster Giuseppe Pizzarello in the 1930s.
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Speaking in the third person, on May 6, 1812 E. A. Le Breton placed an announcement in The Evening Post saying that "he intends to recomme...

The William E. Parsons House - 86 Christopher Street

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 23d

Erected in 1836, this Christopher St house was home to Dr. Wm. Parsons for decades. In the 20th c poet Charles John Olson and artist Vincent Canadé lived here. It holds one apt per floor today.
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Samuel Whittemore operated a factory in Greenwich Village in the early decades of the 19th century, making machinery for the textile indus...

The Margaret Delprat Remsen Mansion - 3 East 80th Street

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 24d

Designed by Welch, Smith & Provot, interesting, no males lived in this double-wide UES mansion until its conversion to apts in 1949. It holds 2 triplexes today.
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William W. Hall erected lavish speculative mansions on the Upper East and West Sides in the 1890s and early 1900s. He often commissioned ...

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 25d

Among the residents in this charming neo-Tudor Central Park West bldg since 1917 were colorful actress Mona Desmond; contralto Helena Marsh; and tenor John Hand, founder of the NY Light Opera Guild.
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The Lost Home Club - 11-15 East 45th Street

Tom Miller @daytonian.bsky.social · 26d

Designed by Gordon, Tracy & Swartwout, the Home Club's apts were equal to a 5-sty rowhouse. Later converted to offices, it was demolished in 2000.
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The Home Club sat within a landscape of upscale, private houses. photo by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the Museum of the City of N...