Buck House NYC

The house standing at 120 East 92nd Street is an outlier in Manhattan, where the rapid rise of brick and stone replaced nearly every early structure. This wood-frame home, built in 1871, serves as a surviving relic of a time when this part of the city was still semi-rural farmland. Because the city banned new wood-frame construction south of 155th Street in 1882, this house belongs to an era that vanished long ago, standing as a quiet, clapboard anomaly in a neighborhood of stone mansions and luxury apartment blocks.