BIG OLD HOUSES

Yes, 47 years ago my old house in Millbrook was occupied by none other than the notorious Dr. Tiomothy Leary. I am amazed by the fact that m...

Being what I like to think of as a "high end" Manhattan real estate broker - at least, I like to think that way - I see a lot of f...

I realize that writing a blog is sort of like keeping a diary, and then leaving it on a park bench or a bus. Unlike a diary, I suppose I act...

I used to belong to a loose and slightly squirrelly group of like-minded souls called the Mansion Maniacs. It was a diverse bunch to say the...

I still can't get over those 2 houses I saw yesterday - and I see a lot in Manhattan too. Both are illustrated on the web, so for those ...

I saw 2 amazing houses in New York yesterday, both on a broker tours. The first was a private brownstone facing Central Park West, priced at...

My firm just listed a limestone townhouse in Harlem, for a bit over $2 million bucks. It's a beautiful place, with the same sort of wood...

The Swiss Chalet bowling alley at Daheim, built in 1896, is a tour de force on several levels. Formal columns, bullseye windows, ornamental ...

Oops, here's what it looked like when I came along.

May whoever came up with polarize light plugs be consigned to an eternity of trying to plug them into old fashioned extension cords. Since m...

One of my favorite things about big, old and preferably un-modernized houses are the bathrooms. They are so grand and spacious, and the fixt...

My mother was from the south, and when I was a little boy she filled my head with wistful - and mostly apocryphal - tales of Louisiana plant...

My haunted guestroom is in the upper left corner of this photo

I've spent many nights alone in my house, and have never been afraid. It's like all old houses; it makes noises. As with bats, the b...

It is June the 9th, 2010, the first day of my blog about BIG OLD HOUSES. I have lived in one or another of them for the last 40 years. At on...