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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
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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
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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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Big Old Houses: Refugee from the Gilded Age

House• 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,... READ MORE
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Big Old Houses: In Defense of Excess

House• 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. ... READ MORE
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Big Old Houses: Another Rescue Story

House• 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... READ MORE
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Big Old Houses: The Russian Consulate

House• April 2, 2020.
Re-visiting the late John Foreman’s Big Old Houses. The John Henry Hammond Mansion on 9 East 91st Street, childhood home of the legendary man who us... READ MORE
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A Hairbreadth Escape

House• February 21, 2012.
About 20 years ago, during a very fluid period in my career, a girl I knew suggested we rent a mansion together in Stockbridge, Mass. Either a single ... READ MORE
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Obscure Poughkeepsie

House• February 14, 2012.
Poughkeepsie, NY, like most old cities in our part of the world, is full of mysterious stone retaining walls. I often wonder what used to be behind th... READ MORE
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Daheim, Part II

House• October 20, 2011.
Here are the Daheim barns, seen from the air in 1982. 25 years after I snapped this picture from a friend’s plane, a catastrophic fire destroye... READ MORE
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Daheim, Part I

House• October 19, 2011.
Here’s Daheim, my home in Millbrook for thirty years, in a photo taken 2 weeks ago. It’s a complicated looking house by any measure, and ... READ MORE

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