Tom Miller
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Born in Dayton, Ohio, Tom relocated to New York city in 1978. An author, blogger, lecturer and historian, Tom has written the histories of more than 5,000 locations in Manhattan (as of March 2025). He is the author of "Seeking New York", "Seeking Chicago", "Daytonian in Manhattan," contributed to several other books, and consulted for pieces in Architectural Digest, The New York Times, and similar publications.
Posts by Tom Miller:
The 1861 Pettibone House at 124 East 10th St: A former boarding house with a notable designer
By Tom Miller
October 27, 2026 - 11:30 AM
Most historians attribute the rowhouses along East 10th Street near Stuyvesant Street to James Renwick, Jr., who designed Grace Church in 1846.
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The 1865 John J. and Emma G. O'Brien House at 208 East 78th St: Colorful lives in a narrow home
By Tom Miller
October 20, 2026 - 10:30 AM
After a delay when laborers went to fight in the Civil War, 15 identical red brick townhouses were completed on East 78th Street. Only five remain, including No. 208.
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237 East 79th St: An apartment building with the ‘modern improvements’ of 1878
By Tom Miller
October 13, 2026 - 09:30 AM
Access to Yorkville was greatly enhanced when the IRT opened in 1878. That year, a four-story double flat was erected at 237 East 79th St.
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The 1871 Lissner House at 125 East 78th St: A disreputable connection with Tammany Hall
By Tom Miller
October 6, 2026 - 11:30 AM
One of the developers who transformed the mostly rural land east of Central Park at the end of the Civil War was Nicholas McCool.
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The 1893 Wertheim House at 19 West 76th St: A Renaissance Revival-style façade nearly unchanged after 135 years
By Tom Miller
September 29, 2026 - 12:30 PM
Designed in the Renaissance Revival style by esteemed architect John H. Duncan, 19 West 76th St. was 25 feet wide and rose four stories above a high English basement.
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The 1889 Brosnan House at 146 West 74th St: An upscale family hurt by a series of calamities
By Tom Miller
September 22, 2026 - 12:30 PM
In 1888, Mary J. Coar hired architect Edward L. Angell to design five upscale rowhouses on West 74th Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues (renamed Columbus and Amsterdam in 1890).
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