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Manhattan Living: Brownstones to Glass Mansions in the Sky
From Brownstone and Limestone to Brick, Concrete, Steel and Glass
Manhattan Residential Architecture from the 19th Century to the 21st Century
 
19th Century
New Yorkers lived in townhouses during the 19th Century. Single Family Townhouses and Mansions were made of Brownstone and Limestone. The Townhouse Market today is very desirable as single family homes and multi-family income producing rental buildings for investors.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Townhouses Upper West Side                                              West 88th Street Townhouse asking $7.5M 
The luxury apartment house was actually invented in New York in the late 19th century. Upper-class New Yorkers lived in townhouses and single-family mansions during the 19th century. To lure potential tenants, developers borrowed the word "apartment" from the French to make the new buildings sound more fashionable. The word and the lifestyle stuck.
 
In 1890 The Dakota was the first luxury apartment building in Manhattan.
It's Beaux Art Chateau style architecture was popular in the late 19th century. It was named The Dakota because at the time it was considered so far north (uptown West 72nd Street and Central Park West) it might as well have ... more

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