BIG OLD HOUSES

Much architectural damage in this world is done in the name of "nodernization." I still remember a moment many years ago, standing...

Unable to hold on to Paxhurst (see 5 posts below), we sold it under duress and rented something even grander. Lindley Hall was originally ca...

Image 1: The conservatory was converted to a science lab when the college had the house, and later to a main floor kitchen Image 2: Looking ...

Image 1: The dining room was originally the drawing room, before the kitchen was moved Image 2: Dining room paneling Image 3: Dining room wa...

Image 1: Main stairhall Image 2: Looking up to the 2nd floor Image 3: Looking down from the first landing Image 4: There is nothing as luxur...

We were kids playing house, but what a house. Paxhurst was my wife's and my Tuxedo Park, NY home for 3 years, from 1977 to 1980. Its his...

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...