Daller: No. Q: And thats what allowed you to buy this house? Were going to this estate. Daller: Well, he hopes that Historic House Trust and the Parks Department work hand in hand and maintaining itthat theyll maintain it as a museum. But I mean, that wasthe holes, the plaster gone. So I got this on the front porch somewhere, nailed to the house, butdoesnt matter. Theyre all McMansions. You can go and look and read about anything about the South Shore of Staten Island. And it was the most amazing party. Q: And you feel that thats at risk because of the development thats happening now. You werent allowed to buy much because it was worth a fortune over there to the general public, to the British. She was the girl who hired me, and she ran the big Sherwin Williams store. Well, the paintings and the small stuff like thatthat like that mirror and those paintings and all that stuffthat was all the little stuff. Of course, nothings there. And Ed was very good at taking dents and things out of cars and he could spray paint. Burke: I dont find any difference living here. But Id go off with Murphy and wed go to these estate sales and most of the stuff thats in here was, I bought and shipped it all back. And in order to have food and such, youd have to bring it up the back stairs. My sisterher mother [indicates Daller], Francesmy sister living in the Bronx, she got me a little apartment and she got me a job working for Saks Fifth Avenue. I was seventeen years with the Air Force. Frank Tredici. And he died young. That was all what she had in mind! This whole corneryou could stand and see the street out there, so this whole corner was rebuilt. Sign up for NYPAP mailings and our Newsletter to stay up-to-date. Burke: Oh god. I put the post on it up under the floor where the newer posts in the staircase was upstairs, and then, when I took the jack away, it sat on the post. George James Manger , 100, of Staten Island died on May 4, 2022. My mother and his wife never got along too well. Then upstairs, was all the bedrooms. Burke: Yes, but just think of that gorgeous, bigthe mansion that this was their farmhouse, up the street here, that was gorgeous. Q: and Linda Daller for the New York Preservation Archive Project. Constantly. In this interview, Burke talks about working with designer Mario Buatta, along with the House of Scalamadr, to select furniture and fabrics to decorate the home in the Victorian style. I know everything, what to do. Then I got shipped to Europe. Thats annoying certain people. What was it, in the city? And she had this woman who was a caretaker. And then when we realized we were broke, all my brothers joined the military, got married, moved away. Yes. So there wasnt a lot of time spent here. And so I had all that stuff in my apartment. Oh, God, I worked so damn hard. Tell us about when you were born? But those things, I couldnt. If you give me a big helping hand here. I said, You know, I dont make that much money. Burke: Yes. Unfortunately. And I had to laugh. So I went around to all the nursesof course, I was in the medical departmentand I asked all the nurses, What are you doing with your stamps? Brooklyn Births: 1898-1909 Deaths: 1847-53, 1857-1948 Marriages: 1866-1949 *Pre-1898 records are for Brooklyn city only. And these roofs had big arches, like this. Im always doing something. Staten Island. I have no idea what it would be like to live in some other place. Im sorry that, during all that construction, I wasnt taking photographs, of step by step. Theres a bunch of little houses now built all along through their gardens. Oh, we were crabbing. So then I said, well, what the hell am I gonna do? Burke: Well, when it came to really heavy construction, like this whole wall being rebuilt and things, I had to hire carpenters and I had to hire plasters to plaster the ceiling. The beloved husband of Rosanna (Ialuna) Burke, he was the devoted father of Matthew I. Burke, Jason L. Burke, and Georgina P. Burke, all of Hull. I mean, lets face it. So they went into repairing things. But that was a big improvement, putting in the kitchen, because there never was a kitchen in the houseand where the kitchen is now, that was the laundry room. And with the Air Force, I enjoyed every minute. Everybody smelled like that. The woodwork, the moldings, the parquet floors. Now, this is a portrait of Joseph Seguine. Because back when they built the houses, kitchens were never built in the house. I dont know, Im just used to it. I loved being there and everything. So I rented the apartment next door, and I broke a hole in the wall. [laughs]. And my neighbor across the street, who had lived there forever, she comes over again with a couple of little plants for me. I said to him, Are you kidding? Its a big plaque on it, its landmarked and everything. And I had the two apartments! Ario George Lazzari Ario George Lazzari, 82, passed away on February 26, 2023 at NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. You are to get out. And the fact that somebody could save a house like this, and want to show it to people, and let people hear about the history behind it? Lives in Rochester, New York. Right across the creek. And I said, Well, the smell is still there. And I said to her, Whatever happened to the old girl? And she said, Well, years ago, when she died, she said, she was laid out in the front parlor in the coffin, and it was nothing but lilacs. Of course, she loved the smell of lilacs. So I figured, hmm! So I went down in Rossville and I bought a beautiful, big old, rundown place and restored it completely. But before we know it, there wont be a thing left in the house. Devoted father of Matthew I. Burke, Jason L. Burke, and Georgina P. Burke, all of Hull. A lot of the windows were broken out of it. The stables were here for years. Off of Hylan Boulevard? So everything just kept going off and someone would have all of this, someone would have all of that. And then finally I had a man come in and talking to me about how hes bought a place on Staten Island that hes opening up a place like Saks only not as nice. What the woman who was caretaking her, what she had to do was constantly keep lilacs next to the bed. She lived up on Lighthouse Hill. And that was the end of that. And he said, George, you know, that big, beautiful house that sits empty? But the other house, one of his friends was pushed down the stairs. I was always in the operating room or someplace like that. And Im glad I did what I did, about just giving it to the National Historic Trust. Was very little time on here. And if they were there and I could see them, and I could ship them free because the government had to ship it for me, and I had my sisters, who would store them for meI had had a great opportunity to pick up all this stuff that was beautiful, get it for nothing, and the government ship it back for me, and my sisters would keep it until I got a place to put it. Will they appreciate it? Its still there, the framework of it, with the brick. So I stayed there, worked for him for years. Burke: Oh. George Burke. I wanted to ask about the Equestrian Center. But Ive got to bring that portrait down and put it above that fireplace and get rid of that painting thats there. From what youve described, the different places that have been demolished over the years were extremely different from each other. And that guy, look at the size of that house he just built. Im going to retire, Im going to go down to that big old house, restore it, fix it all up, move in it, and enjoy it. Daller: The staircase wasnt even straight. Q: Okay, all of that. And then I was able to get all my stuff out of storage and out of peoples homes where I stored them, and furnished the house and moved and lived in the whole house, took care of it. And that was inwhere the hell, what did they call that area where all the Eskimos lived? Q: Thank you for that story. And Diane said, Oh, Marian has it.. Why cant they just appreciate something for what it is? And they were big floors. But that was the cistern for doing all the laundry and everything in the basement. And that still is, today, one of the great places around here, the Old Bermuda Inn, and John still owns it. Thats not good. The same thing thats going on with statues. Anyway, I said, Oh boy, did I have a scary dream. I told her my dream. It doesnt happen on the North Shore because were very condensed and its a dense population. They were some kind of jewelry like that but I dont remember what it was. And they did. Or is that real? That was real. And it was quite difficult to maintain the big house we were living in. The son and his wife took over Scalamandr. George Burke was born on Staten Island and grew up in Annandale before moving to Florida with his family. What the hell is that coming from? So I come down the stairs, and as I got down the stairs, the spelling got stronger and stronger. And, she said, If so, we will give you gifts. And then that was the end. Stony Brook. Eric. So she said, Bess said, Were going to have to quit, George. I said Oh, shit. STATEN ISLAND, NY 10309. And if theyre gonna make a museum out of it, theyre gonna have to pay somebody to greet people and take them on tours. Oh, thats right. I think so. Oh shit, Im going to have to rebuild the wall. So I started pulling the bricks out, and wrapped up where one of the bricks was, was an oil cloth rag all wrapped up. . And that was, Mrs.these mirrors came from that house, they were in the parlor in that houseWhat the hell was her name? Its still there, you can see it. WHEN George Burke was growing up on Staten Island in the 1930s and '40s, he used to ride horses with a pair of sisters, Elizabeth and Belle Seguine. We were doing other parties at the time, the only thing we still maintain is the White Party. The following is a roundup of obituaries published on SILive.com. Daller: So not that much time was spent on Staten Island. And I want somebody to take care of it. My brother, he come in and he said, What are you, nuts? So most of the stuff is Victorianturn of the century and Victorian. Burke: Anyway, she was well known here on Staten Island. The Secret Service, as well as a Cohasset school accounting specialist and the superintendent, are determining how much the operation cost the town. So when I get out of the service, I got a job. And I was a medic. But, God, that was almost 100 years ago, you know? I said, Where are you? She said, Well, I moved out years ago and went back to Georgia. Eventually, he was able to move his collection of Victorian-style furnishings safely into the home, and add to it larger pieces of furniture to complete the restoration. Frank Tredici Jr., age 79, of Staten Island, New York, passed away on Monday, February 20th, 2023. When I bought it, I didnt know what was that ones house. Well, do you know what your preferences are? That was a bigits still there. Burke: And what is a shame islike, you take [one of our former boarders], she has two horses that she used to keep here all the time. Well, he lived on Staten Island. And the whole big building used to be a big private home, and then they had made it into a restaurant. Q: You mentioned that the South Shore has changed in the last few years. But some strange things did happen in the house. Burke: Yes, there was a little man in New Jersey. Put through the years, people recognized it and everything. Hes the man that built the house. I was living in London, and I was studying the history of art and design, or something like that, in the University of London, and he was going and he was studying art. Burke: Theyll come in, but youll have to have somebody as a guide. Burke: Well, a good example is the one right here at the end of the street. I need to get someone in to do a good cleaning on the house, someone to take care of maintaining it. Theyd work out, and theyd be waiters, or this and that. And I worked there for quite a while, and I lived in the Bronx. Thats what I was. He introduced me all the time tobecause look at look at what he was. And my father died, and we were all very young. I loved Alaska. But I forgot what the other two things were. And he come from a very, very wealthy family in Madrid. If you were at the water looking up here, you couldnt see the house. Burke: Well, look at the mansion! 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