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BIG OLD HOUSES: A Noble Antique in the Urban Sprawl
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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...
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Big Old Houses: Lucky it was Over Here
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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...
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Big Old Houses: A Finale, of Sorts
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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...
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Big Old Houses: Yonkers, of all places
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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 ...
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Big Old Houses: A Whole Lot of Crazy
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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...
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Big Old Houses: A Political Mansion
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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...
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Big Old Houses: Where Are They Now?
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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 ...
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Big Old Houses: Stanford White Experiments
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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...
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Big Old Houses: A Very Big Stage
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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 ...
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Big Old Houses: Very Rich, and Very Quiet
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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...
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Big Old Houses: Refugee from the Gilded Age
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May 1, 2020.
The late, great John Foreman sets his eyes and his camera on a refugee from the Gilded Age — Stone House Hill House of Ames family in North Easton,...
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Big Old Houses: In Defense of Excess
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April 24, 2020.
John Foreman’s visit to another residence all in the same family, the Burden mansion on East 91st Street, next door to Mrs. Burden’s sister, Mrs. ...
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Big Old Houses: Another Rescue Story
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April 10, 2020.
Today on the NYSD we’re running another of our great, late contributor John Foreman’s Big Old Houses. This week’s subject is Elm Court, th...
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