The Isabella Merritt Hawley House - 49 West 71st Street

In January 1885, architect John Sexton filed plans for seven four-story brownstone houses on the north side of West 71st Street…

Martin V. B. Ferndon's 1894 77-79 Hudson Street

Charles Welsh was a jeweler, but he augmented his income through real estate development--much of it in the rapidly transformin…

John Gifford's 1879 Flat Building - 70 West 11th Street

In the first years of the 1850's the West 11th Street block between fashionable Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue was a mix of …

The 1887 Graystone Apartment - 100 West 74th Street

Among the few professions in which women could prevail in 19th century New York was real estate.  One of them was Margaret Brenna…

The 1873 French Flats at 15 East 12th Street

In 1873 a high stoop rose to what is today a centered window above the store. Maria Titus owned the 25-foot wide house at 15 Ea…