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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...

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...