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House• October 30, 2020

Mark Epstein

This week we’ve chosen to re-run our interview with designer Mark Epstein, who suddenly passed away this Tuesday, shocking and saddening his family and many friends...

From Heartbreak to Healing — Rebuilding the Ranch House

House• October 9, 2020.

Paige Peterson visits the new (rebuilt) ranch of Peter and Nancy Lang's on the occasion of the third anniversary of the Tubbs Fire in 2017, which destroyed everything... READ MORE

Carolyne Roehm

House• September 18, 2020.

Sian, Lesley and JH, with camera, return to a visit in 2007 with the elegant, sophisticated, hard-working, sleek, chic, and kind Carolyne Roehm — "born a thoroughbred filled with the nervous energy for a demanding race."... 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 a fortune in copper and gold... 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 above them all in 1977... 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 Jersey Governor’s Mansion, to now a museum... 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 and prominent New Yorkers are buried... READ MORE

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

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

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

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

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

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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Mark Epstein

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From Heartbreak to Healing — Rebuilding the Ranch House

Carolyne Roehm

Big Old Houses: Yonkers, of all places

Big Old Houses: A Whole Lot of Crazy

Big Old Houses: A Political Mansion

Big Old Houses: Where Are They Now?

Isabelo Satori

Big Old Houses: Stanford White Experiments

Big Old Houses: A Very Big Stage

Big Old Houses: Very Rich, and Very Quiet

Big Old Houses: Refugee from the Gilded Age

Big Old Houses: In Defense of Excess

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