Tom Miller

The Moses M. Bradley House - 212 East 32nd Street An apartment door was installed in the basement in 1990 and the parlor windows shortened.  photograph by Anthony Bellov It appears that i...

In preparing her $1.50 goose in 1896, Katie Rosenthal, owner of this Kips Bay house, discovered a diamond inside. (The butcher raised his prices.) It has a basement apt. today.
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The DeWitt and Victorine Cole House - 436 West 20th Street Clement Clark Moore donated the block of Ninth to Tenth Avenues from 20th to 21st Street in 1818.  Six years later, the first building of ...

Among the celebrated residents of this Greenwich Village house were Glenn Close, Courtney Love and Frances Garr.
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The 1898 Swannanoa - 105-107 East 15th Street On July 15, 1897, David Greene sold the "three story brick store" at 105 East 15th Street and the "three-story frame dwelling" next door at ...

Designed by Gilbert A. Schellinger, The Swannanoa's occupants have included writers, artists and actors, including Georgia Vere Tyler and John Howard Jewett.
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The 1900 Samuel Haas Mansion - 15 East 80th Street Samuel Paul Haas was president of Haas Brothers Ladies Tailoring Co.  On October 30, 1898, he and his wife, Isabella, purchased the 21-foo...

David Sicher, who lived in this Brun & Hauser-designed mansion beginning in 1904, established free schools for his factory workers and pressed for minimum wages. It is a single-family home today
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Emery Roth's 1929 110 West 86th Street image via cocoran.com On March 18, 1928, The New York Times reported that builder David Zimmerman "purchased from Benjamin Benenson the f...

Among the residents of this Emery Roth-designed bldg have been actress Margaret Linn, playwright Corinne Jacker, and economist J. Wilner Sundelson.
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The Lost Madison Avenue Baptist Church - 131 Madison Avenue photo by Byron Company, from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York   Organized in 1838, in 1849 the Rose Hill Church chang...

Designed by Henry C. Dudley in 1859, the Madison Ave Baptist Church survived until 1929, replaced with the Rogers Williams Hotel that included worship space for the church.
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The 1910 R. Tassi & Sons Garage - 45-47 Downing Street Automobiles were changing the streets of New York City in the first years of the 20th century, but only the wealthy could afford them.  Th...

Originally a "car stable," this #GreenwichVillage garage became an event venue in the 1980s. It continues such today as "45 Downing."
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The Tammany Central Assoc. Clubhouse - 226 East 32nd Street photo via zillow.com Around 1855, a trio of Anglo-Italianate rowhouses was erected on East 32nd Street between Second and Third Avenues.  ...

This Anglo-Italianate rowhouse in Kips Bay was the clubhouse of the Tammany Central Assoc. from 1911 to 1963. It holds apartments today.
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The Joshua B. Jenkins House - 33 Stuyvesant Street On September 16, 1854, Matthias Banta purchased the triangular parcel that wrapped the north side of Stuyvesant Street and along the south...

With her Victorian garments ablaze, the owner of this Renwick-designed house met a gruesome end in 1890.
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The Alexander Grant House - 426 West 44th Street photograph by Anthony Bellov Around 1860, a trio of brick-faced, Italianate style houses were erected at 274 through 278 West 44th Street....

This Italianate house near the Theater District retains much of his pre-Civil War appearance. It is a 2-family home today.
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The Benjamin Mordecai Mansion - 319 West 105th Street On April 17, 1902, The New York Times reported that Benjamin Mordecai had purchased the recently completed limestone-faced mansion at 319...

TV actor Takeo Lee Wong converted the areaway of this Wm. Mowbray-designed mansion to a lush garden after 9/11, to his landlords disgruntlement. The landlord finally won in 2012. There are 13 apts in the house today.
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The Lost H. Kauffman & Sons Saddlery Building - 139-141 East 24th Street The centered show window replaced a vast carriage bay.   image via the NYC Dept of Records & Information Services As early as 1873, J. O. Ta...

Kauffman & Sons Saddlery outfitted horses and riders like Teddy Roosevelt and Gen'l Patton for decades from this bldg until 1991. It was razed in 2000.
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The 1874 47 St. Mark's Place The family of Stephen C. Lynes had occupied the brick-faced house at 47 St. Mark's Place for decades when he died at the age of 85 on Octo...

The handsome Anglo-Italianate design of this St. Mark's Place flat house veils the harsh lives its occupants often suffered.
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Transformed from an 1883 brownstone to Colonial Revival by Albro & Lindeberg in 1905, 62 E 80 was home to chemical warfare expert Joaquin Zanetti in the 1920s. It is still a single family home.
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The 1892 437-439 West 44th Street photograph by Anthony Bellov On May 30, 1891, Samuel Hirsch purchased two four-story frame houses at 437 and 439 West 44th Street from Gar...

This eccentric flat building in #Clinton was home to notorious gangster John "Apple" Applegate from the 1930s until his arrest in 1952.
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Rutherford Stuyvesant's 1879 104 East 10th Street photograph by the author Around 1846, a two-story office building was erected at 180 Tenth Street (renumbered 104 East 10th Street in 1865...

An early resident of this 1879 house was Dr. Franklin D. Lawson, who gave up medicine and became a member of the Metropolitan Opera in 1902. In 2016 it was restore to a single family home.
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The 1896 Adolph B. Ansbacher House - 41 West 87th Street Architect Theodore E. Thompson designed five 20-foot wide houses on the north side of West 87th Street between Central Park West and Colum...

The stoop of this Theodore E. Thompson designed rowhouse was removed in 1928. It was recently restored with an extraordinary copy based on others along the row
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The Lost William E. Benjamin Mansion - 2 East 87th Street To the left of 2 East 87th Street is the John Phipps house , erected simultaneously.  photo by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the Museum...

Designed by Janes & Leo in 1901, the massive Benjamin mansion was demolished in 1949 for 1056 Fifth Ave, completed in 1951
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The 1854 James A. Banta Dry Goods Store - 324 Bleecker Street In 1854, Martin Bunn and Nicholas D. Herder lined the western blockfront of Bleecker Street between Grove and Christopher Streets with fou...

For 165 yrs Greenwich Village residents have shopped for a variety of items in this Bleecker St bldg. Its most recent tenant was a head shop.
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The Francis Pape House-and-Store - 9 Clinton Street image via loopnet.com In 1792, following the death of Revolutionary War general and first New York State Governor George Clinton, Warren S...

Repeatedly altered, this beleaguered #LowerEastSide bldg was the home and shop of a shoemaker starting in the 1850s. It recently received a renovation.
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The Altered Charles Canda Mansion - 236 Second Avenue image via loopnet.com Charles and Adele Canda lived at 17 Lafayette Place in the mid-1850s.  Born in 1792 and 1804 respectively, their ele...

Once considered one of "the most elegant" of Manhattan mansions, unsympathetic ground floor renovations and upper additions make the Canda residence nearly unrecognizable.
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"Horizonal Mansions" - the 1916 820 Fifth Avenue photo by Buddy 212 When the Progress Club moved to the west side of Central Park in 1901, its clubhouse at 820 Fifth Avenue was purchased...

Designed by Starrett & Van Vleck, the smallest apts in 850 5th Av engulf a full-floor. Its occupants have included the cream of NYC society--Belmont, Goelet, Paley, Harkness and and Burden among them.
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The Michael J. and Annie Mahony House - 126 West 87th Street John G. Prague's profession was both architect and developer.  In the late 19th century he designed and built scores of rowhouses on Manhatt...

Designed by John G. Prague in 1887, 126 W 87th was occupied by the same family until 1981 when actors Peter Maloney and Kristin Griffin renovated it. It remains a single family home.
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The clapboard-sided Park Cottage faced Central Park for just 20 years, replaced with the Brunner and Tryon-designed Congregation Shearith Israel synagogue in 1896.
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Bootleggers, Evicted Artists, and Nightclubs - 55 Grove Street William A. Thompson, an attorney, tried his hand at speculative development in 1839 by erecting five brick-faced homes on the north side o...

Built in 1839 as a Federal style house, 55 Grove St became a cabaret in 1951--called the Duplex and later Rose's Turn. The bldg was converted to an event space in 2015.
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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 Brothers David and John Jardine were partners in the prolific architectural firm D. & J. Jardine.  In 1867, they acted as developers, as w...

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

Reconverted to a single family home in 2002, this Italianate rowhouse has little changed externally since 1852.
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The Frederick Wm. Saltzsieder Mansion - 324 West 108th Street photograph by the author On November 5, 1898, the Real Estate Record & Guide titled an article, "Joseph A. Farley's New and Artistic Dwell...

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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The Lost Jane Engel Buildilng - 1025 Madison Avenue 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...

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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