BIG OLD HOUSES

In 1977, my wife and I scraped together every penny we had (and then some) to buy this beautiful old house in Tuxedo Park, New York. It was ...

Image 1 - The front door opened into a small panelled foyer, and then into a grand stair hall. The newel posts were topped with fanciful cre...

Sometime during the next year, myself and the owner of the Millbrook Independent will publish "Old Houses in Millbrook," being a c...

I did a little Long Island tour yesterday with an old house pal. Creeping down an overgrown lane called Whitney Phipps Garvan Road - one not...

They've been sitting atop a statue on the approach to Daheim for over a century. I'm not sure anyone has completely figured out what...

It sounds today like a contradiction in terms, but private alleys were commonplace on the estates of rich clients ca. 1900. This being the C...

These are of the second floor, originally a billiard room, accessible by an exterior stair with a balcony entrance.

Colonial houses don't really rock my world. I respond to early 20th Century Colonial Revivals instead, as long as they're grand and ...

My daughter grew up at Daheim, a house with a "front room." I'm not really sure why we never called it the living room, but we...

The first 2 images are of Delano and Aldrich's Knickerbocker Club at 2 East 62nd St., a building that strikes a delicate note in a neigh...

Writing about ironwork on the new Ralph Lauren building up at 72nd and Madison (see the post below) has given me new eyes for the work on fi...