- Events
- Lecture
Co-Sponsored by Salmagundi Club and Merchant’s House Museum
The remoteness of the area that we consider Greenwich Village today resulted in a contrast in the lives of its residents in the 18th century. Tradesmen and farmers lived in relative proximity with grand summer estates of wealthy British officers and, later, equally wealthy newly minted Americans. And in the midst was the state’s prison that offered new employment opportunities to locals.
Historian Tom Miller will walk us through several of these locations and discuss the lives of the villagers who lived there.
Tom Miller is an architectural and social historian, and the author of Seeking New York, Seeking Chicago, as well as the popular blog “Daytonian in Manhattan.” Since 2009 Tom has published a blog post on a different Manhattan location every day, six days a week — now totaling more than 4,500.
His research and reporting focus as much on the social histories of the buildings — the tragedies and sorrows, triumphs and scandals of the people who built and lived in the houses — as on their architecture and styles. Tom Miller’s skillful retelling of these stories make the buildings come alive; and suddenly they are more than brick, marble, and limestone, but the stories of real people.
- Date
- Tuesday, October 7, 2025
- Time
- 6:00 pm
- Details
In-Person
Free
Pre-registration Required