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The 1897 Donac - 402 West 20th Street photo courtesy of Brown Harris Stevens Angelica Barraclough Faber was one of 13 children of Don Alonzo and Mathilda Charity Smith Cushman.  ...

Designed by C. P. H. Gilbert, the Hetti and LeRoi Jones's Donac apt became a center of the Beat generation in the 1950s.
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The 1914 Municipal Building - 1 Centre Street photograph by Momos As early as 1884, the city's government had outgrown the 1812 City Hall building.  Plans for a Municipal Building tha...

Designed by William M. Kendall of McKim, Mead & White, the Municipal Bldg had a serious problem when it opened in 1914: it was infested with feral cats.
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The 1902 Henry Herman Westinghouse Mansion - 313 West 105th Street Real estate developer John C. Umberfield purchased vacant land on the north side of West 105th Street between West End Avenue and Riversid...

Designed by Wm E. Mowbray, this Beaux Arts mansion was originally home to industrialist Henry Westinghouse, and later to artist and mystic Nicholas Roerich and his wife, Helena. There are 15 units in the house today.
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The Lost 1826 New York Theatre image by Alexander Jackson Davis by Imbert's Lithography, from the collection of the New York Public Library On November 25, 1783, George ...

A Greek Revival masterwork by Ithiel Town, the New York Theatre stood only 2 years--from 1826 to '28.
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The 1890 Isaac Bitterman House - 131 East 95th Street Real estate operator Francis Joseph Schnugg hired architect Frank Wennemer in 1889 to design eight rowhouses along East 95th Street near L...

Designed by Frank Wennemer, this Carnegie Hill rowhouse was home to Vincent Sardi, of restaurant fame, and his family for half a century. The stoop, removed in 1928, was recently restored.
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George Fred Pelham's 1893 332 West 51st Street In September 1890, real estate operator William Ramsey purchased the three, three-story brick houses at 330 through 334 West 51st Street. ...

This Hell's Kitchen bldg originally had 7-room apts. By mid-century it was a rooming house, home to Shipwreck Kelly, famous 1920s flagpole sitter. It has single-occupancy apts today.
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The 1845 John Allen House - 119 East 10th Street In the early 19th century, Joseph Russell was active in real estate operations within the district that had once been the Stuyvesant farms...

This East Village house was home to sculptor Alexander Sterling Calder and his artist wife, Nanette Lederer Calder, in the 1920s. It holds 5 apts today.
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The 1881 Warwick Apartments -- 184 West 10th Street image via nycbuildingadvisors.com Philip Henry Dugro (who went professionally by his middle name) was not only an attorney, a judge, and a...

In the 1920s, the funeral home in this F. W. Klemt-designed apt bldg in Greenwich Village disguised a speakeasy.
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The Stubborn 1892 Holdout at 304 West 104th Street Perhaps the most prolific architect working in the Upper West Side in the late 19th century was Clarence Fagan True.  Known for his often ...

Once part of row of 10 Clarence True-designed homes, 304 W 104th was home to fascinating brothers Moritz and J. Adelphi Gottlieb. It was converted to apts in 1999.
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The Lost J. & R. Lamb Decorators Bldg - 59 Carmine Street A century of wear had worn down the brownstone steps when H. Shobbrook Collins took this photograph in March 1921 (cropped) .  from the co...

Built around 1825 and remodeled by Jeans & Taylor in 1876, this Greenwich Village bldg was home to famed church decorating firm J & R Lamb for decades. It was razed in 1925.
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The 1861 Claudius B. Conant House - 25 Stuyvesant Street The regimented grid of the 1811 Commissioners Plan was interrupted by the diagonally-running Stuyvesant Street, originally a lane created ...

This East Village rowhouse was home to pioneering women's rights pioneer, anthropologist and ethnologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher in the 19th c; and award winning novelist Nina Munk in the 21st.
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The 1931 Dumont Building - 515 Madison Avenue image via redesignarchitects.com Architect James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr. (who went professionally as J. E. R. Carpenter) was three ye...

Designed by J. E. R. Carpenter in an Art Deco take on Gothic, 515 Madison Av repeatedly made pioneering television history in the 1930s thru 1950s.
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The 1892 Max D. Neuberger House - 115 East 95th Street Between 1890 and 1892, developer Francis Joseph Schnugg nearly filled the northern blockfront of East 95th Street from Lexington to Park A...

Designed by Louis Entzer, Jr., this Carnegie Hill rowhouse was home to famed Rabbi Moses Hyamson in the 1910s, and actress June Havoc and her husband producer and director Wm. Spier in the 50's and 60s. It is a single family home.
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This Italianate Hell's Kitchen house has been home to wealthy families, a Tammany leader, and a mission. It is currently being drastically altered into 6 apts.
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Vocal coach Baron Gennaro Mario Curci lived in this Chas. Buek & Co-designed rowhouse in in the 1920s when he was discovered by Hollywood and played in more than 30 films. It is a single family home.
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The Lost Jesse Crawford Whyte House and Store - 78 West 126th Street To the left of the house, a wooden fence protects the horsewalk, or passage, that accessed the smaller residence in the rear.   image via ...

Erected in 1851, this charming wooden house-and-store in Harlem was demolished in 1943 and never replaced.
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The 1880 St. Nicholas - 10 St. Mark's Place photograph by Anthony Bellov Beginning in 1831, the three-block section of East 8th Street known as St. Mark's Place, saw the rise of refi...

Among the residents of this Jobst Hoffman-designed tenement were vaudevillian Banjo Andy in the early 1900s and sculptor Jacob Lipkin in the 1960s.
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The 1852 Charles C. Buxton Grocery - 380 Bleecker Street In 1850, Charles C. Buxton and his family lived at 155 Amos Street, near his grocery store on Bleecker Street.  (Amos Street would be rena...

Among the many shops in this Greenwich Village house-and-store over its 174 years were a grocery, fancy goods store, and a used piano shop.
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The William and Martha Hutcheson Mansion - 1211 Park Avenue On June 29, 1889, the  Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide  reported that architects Flemer & Koehler had filed plans for eight stone-fro...

Built in 1889 as a Queen Anne style rowhouse, 1211 Park Av was given a neo-Georgian make-over by Wm. L. Bottomley in 1922 for famed landscape architect Martha Brookes Hutcheson and her husband, William. It remains a single-family home.
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The 1874 Bloomingdale Turnverein - 341 West 47th Street photograph by Carole Teller Substantial German immigration into New York City began in the 1830s and continued to grow.  In the 1850s, aro...

Built as a German Athletic Club, this Hell's Kitchen bldg has been a rehearsal hall and an Off-Broadway Theater. It was converted to apartments in 1985.
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The St. Francis Court - 583 Riverside Drive image via eqarchitects.com On September 29, 1905, the architectural firm of Neville & Bagge filed plans for a six-story "brick and stone ten...

Among the residents of this Neville & Bagge-designed Upper West Side bldg have been two war heroes. It holds affordable housing today.
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The Lost William Devoe House - 84 Carmine Street The extension of Seventh Avenue resulted in a chamfered corner.  from the collection of the New-York Historical Society. Construction of ...

This Federal style house barely escaped destruction by the 1913 7th av extension. Living in the attic in 1919 were Deaf Lilly and Billy the Gink whose relationship ended tragically. The bldg was razed in 1996.
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Springsteen & Goldhammer's 1929 140 East 95th Street In 1928, a year before the Stock Market Crash, the newly formed 1470 Lexington Avenue Corporation purchased the four-story apartment build...

A Mediterranean fantasy, this Carnegie Hill apt house provided visual relief for Depression Era weary New Yorkers.
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The 1855 Peter Gibson House - 139 East 18th Street photograph by Carole Teller By the end of the 1840s, Gramercy Square (known today as Gramercy Park), was ringed with fine mansions.  Its r...

This Anglo-Italianate house near Gramercy Park was home to Gustave Herter, of the famed Herter Bros. decorating firm; and Richard C. Morse, of the Y.M.C.A. It contains a duplex and a triplex apartment today.
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The Ideal Hosiery Building - 339 Grand Street photograph by Carole Teller John Jacob Astor I amassed $250,000 in the fur trade by 1800 (nearly $6.5 million in 2026).  He turned to real...

Erected by John Jacob Astor I around 1830, the store in this Federal-style house has had only a handful of commercial tenants over its nearly 200 years. It was designated a landmark in 2013.
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The 1890 Julius and Henrietta Steinfelder House - 1215 Park Avenue On June 29, 1889  The Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide  reported that architects Flemer & Koehler had filed plans for eight stone-fron...

Designed by Flemer & Koehler, this Carnegie Hill rowhouse lost its stoop in the widening of Park Av. It was home to just 3 families prior to 1956, when it was converted to 5 apts.
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The 1909 Esperanto - 229 West 105th Street photograph by Anthony Bellov In 1908 developer Lorenz Weiher acquired the five lots at 227 through 235 West 105th Street between Amsterdam...

Designed by Moore & Landsiedel, the colorful stories of the Esperando residents have included murder, espionage and the last surviving crew member of the ironclad "Monitor."
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The Lost North Dutch Church - William and Fulton Streets Edward Lamson Henry painted this depiction in 1869, probably for the church's centennial.  from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum o...

The 1767, Georgian style North Dutch Church at William and Fulton Street was used by the British during the Revolution as a prison. It was razed 1875.
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The 1851 Ann Gillett House - 314 East 19th Street photograph by Carole Teller In 1851, construction of a long row of brick-faced townhouses was completed on East 19th Street between First ...

This externally intact Greek Revival East Village house became a refuge for conscientious objectors in 1958, and a Mennonite student center in 1976. Menno House continues here today.
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The Altered Maximilian and Sarah Raefle House - 112 East 10th Street The house originally matched that of 114 East 10th Street, to the left.  image via streeteasy.com The far-sighted Commissioners Plan that ...

Erected in 1861, this once Anglo-Italianate rowhouse was handsomely converted to artists studios in 1927. Among the first tenant was painter and etcher Anne Goldthwaite.
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