Henry Collins Brown (1862–1961) was a Scottish-born New York historian, lecturer, and author. He was the founder of the Museum of the City of New York. A Scottish immigrant, he arrived in New York at the age of 13. After working as an advertising salesman, traveling throughout New York City, he became a journalist for The New York Sun, writing about the city's history as well as its buildings. Brown also wrote several books about New York's history, and was the editor of Valentine's Manual.
Discipline:
Literature
Henry Collins Brown
Discipline:
Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1942
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Henry Collins Brown worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…