John Foreman, Author at New York Social Diary

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 Whole Lot of Crazy

House• August 25, 2020.

John Foreman gives of the history (and a tour) of houses on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street as well as the apartment tower rising high abov... 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

Big Old Houses: Stanford White Experiments

House• July 24, 2020.

Big Old House returns to John Foreman’s visit to Naumkeag, the summer estate in Stockbridge of the most distinguished New York lawyer, Joseph Choate... READ MORE

Big Old Houses: A Very Big Stage

House• June 30, 2020.

We revisit John Foreman’s coverage of 1 East 78 Street, the home of James B. Duke, his wife and this legendary daughter, Doris, the richest girl in ... READ MORE

Big Old Houses: Very Rich, and Very Quiet

House• May 7, 2020.

We accompany John Foreman through his tour of one of the great old Fifth Avenue mansions from the Gilded, still standing, the Harkness mansion at 1 Ea... READ MORE

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