John Foreman, Author at New York Social Diary

Big Old Houses: A Whole Lot of Crazy

House• February 4, 2022.

We return to John Foreman who gives us the history (and a tour) of the houses on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street as well as the apartment t... READ MORE

Big Old Houses: “The King of New York”

House• January 27, 2022.

We return for your comfort and curiosity to the late John Foreman’s visit to the interior and the history of the King of New York, Otto Kahn’s sti... READ MORE

Big Old Houses: Forget Gatsby

House• October 14, 2021.

Revisiting a 2012 tour of The Braes given by the late John Foreman, the second great mansion (still standing) of Standard Oil heir Herbert Pratt... READ MORE

BIG OLD HOUSES: In My Dreams

House• September 27, 2021.

We recount the amazing history, thanks to the late John Foreman, of the Morris-Jumel Mansion (1765) in upper Manhattan... READ MORE

Big Old Houses: A Voyage to Staten Island

House• April 28, 2021.

John Foreman takes us on one of his encyclopedic and aesthetic visits to a beautiful old house on Staten Island, first built in the late 18th century,... READ MORE

Big Old Houses: Fugitive Chic

House• March 30, 2021.

We revisit John Foreman's examination of 12th Street and Fifth Avenue to a block mainly unchanged in a century... READ MORE

Big Old Houses: In a Very Different World

House• March 2, 2021.

In a Very Different World, John Foreman visits the palatial estate of George Jay Gould in Lakewood, New Jersey, built at the height of the Victorian a... READ MORE

BIG OLD HOUSES: A Noble Antique in the Urban Sprawl

House• February 17, 2021.

We return to John Foreman’s history of “Liberty Hall,” an 18th century estate in New Jersey embraced by history of the American republic and now... READ MORE

Big Old Houses: Lucky it was Over Here

House• January 22, 2021.

With John Foreman, we revisit a 19th century country estate in Waltham, Mass, and the changes that occurred over the next two centuries of family owne... READ MORE

Big Old Houses: A Finale, of Sorts

House• January 15, 2021.

We revisit John Foreman’s history of Eagles’ Nest, the Long Island estate of Willie K. Vanderbilt Jr. Plus a 1932 travelogue, “Over the Seven Se... READ MORE

Big Old Houses: Yonkers, of all places

House• September 15, 2020.

Returning to John Foreman’s history of a mansion overlooking the Hudson in Yonkers built in 1912 by a tycoon born in a Montana mining camp who made ... READ MORE

Big Old Houses: A Political Mansion

House• August 20, 2020.

Every house has a personality. John Foreman takes us on a tour and a history of Morven, once a family house built mid-18th century, into the New Jerse... READ MORE

Big Old Houses: Where Are They Now?

House• August 10, 2020.

Looking back at John Foreman’s visit to the grandly fascinating Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx where for the last century and a half so many famous ... READ MORE

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