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House• August 10, 2020

Big Old Houses: Where Are They Now?

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 and prominent New Yorkers are buried...

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Isabelo Satori

House• July 31, 2020.
Before these strange times when you could go a-visiting, Sian and Lesley interviewed the designer Isabelo Satori at the Carroll Gardens home he shares with his husband Cort Cunningham... READ MORE
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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, and an early commission of Stanford White, then in his 20s... 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 the world in the American 20th century... 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 East 75th Street... 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, Massachusetts built in 1905 by 29-year-old Frederick Lothrop Ames a year after his marriage to New York Society belle Edith Callender Cryder... 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. Hammond... 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, the sprawling country mansion and estate of Mr. and Mrs W. D. Sloane. Mr. Sloane and his brother were heirs to W&J Sloane, a major furniture business in New York.  Coincidentally, last week we featur... 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 ushered in American jazz music, now the consulate of the Russian Federation... READ MORE
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Big Old Houses: “The King of New York”

House• March 20, 2020.
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 great, still perfectly preserved mansion on 91st Street and Fifth Avenue... READ MORE
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B. Smith

House• February 28, 2020.
We revisit our 2007 House interview with restaurateur, model, author, businesswoman and television host B. Smith, who lost her battle with early-onset Alzheimer's this past Saturday, February 22nd, 2020... READ MORE
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Belvedere: The Town That Time Forgot

House• February 21, 2020.
Paige Peterson gives us a tour of her hometown and surrounding areas developed by a Belvedere company, Hadley Construction, who, for 3 generations, has been keeping the integrity of the architecture and character of this hamlet. ... READ MORE
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Charles Burkhalter

House• February 14, 2020.
Sian, Lesley and Pierre Crosby visit interior designer Charles Burkhalter in his airy TriBeCa loft... READ MORE

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