THE MARK HOPKINS HOTEL WAS CONCEIVED, FINANCED AND BUILT BY COMSTOCK LODE MINING ENGINEER GEORGE D. SMITH WHO OPERATED IT FROM ITS OPENING IN DECEMBER 1926 THROUGH JANUARY 1962. HE...
The Gerrymander Near this site stood the home of state senator Israel Thorndike, a merchant and privateers. During a visit here in 1812 by Governor Elbridge Gerry, an electoral district was oddly...
DE LAMAR MANSION 233 MADISON AVENUE THIS IMPRESSIVE MURRAY HILL MANSION WAS BUILT FOR JOSEPH RAPHAEL DE LAMAR IN 1902-05. BORN IN AMSTERDAM, DE LAMAR IMMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE LATE...
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THE MARK HOPKINS HOTEL WAS CONCEIVED, FINANCED AND BUILT BY COMSTOCK LODE MINING ENGINEER GEORGE D. SMITH WHO OPERATED IT FROM ITS OPENING IN DECEMBER 1926 THROUGH JANUARY 1962. HE...