Stubborn Survivors: The Holdouts of
West End Avenue
with special guest speaker Tom Miller
Wednesday, December 11, 6:00-7:00pm via Zoom
West End Avenue was an elegant residential thoroughfare in the 19th century, lined with brick and brownstone mansions. In the early 20th century, however, fashion switched from private homes to upscale apartment living. The rows of private residences were replaced by soaring modern multi-family buildings. For the most part.
Certain homeowners stubbornly resisted the trend. As a result, West End Avenue has numerous eccentric leftovers—once refined rowhouses now vised between soaring apartment buildings. They create a surprising and sometimes amusing streetscape.
Don't miss this special program by history fan favorite Tom Miller (aka the "Daytonian in Manhattan" blogger) for an online tour of West End Avenue's stubborn, beloved, and literally low-profile holdouts. As always, Miller will share from his trove of deeply researched historic photos and much more to tell the stories that played out within these buildings and what's going on with them today.
So get ready UWS, WEA and Tom Miller fans! This is the final LW! program of the year. Let's gather for a wonderful and wonder-filled evening that celebrates the history around us.
Speaker Tom Miller, a historian and preservationist, is the voice of Daytonian in Manhattan, a hugely popular blog started 15 years ago, in which he has covered more than 4,500 Manhattan buildings, statues, fountains and other points of interest that make Manhattan fascinating. His research and reporting focus as much on the social histories of buildings—the tragedies, triumphs and scandals of the people who built and lived there—as on their architecture and styles. He is the author of Seeking New York: The Stories Behind the Historic Architecture of Manhattan--One Building at a Time (Pimpernel Press, 2015) and his companion book, Seeking Chicago (Rizzoli International, 2018).
