At the end of the nineteenth century, the Latourette farm, with this large Greek Revival house at its center, was considered the finest on Staten Island. When the Latourette family sold the farm to the City in 1928. The grounds became a park with a golf course, and the house a clubhouse.
The Moore-McMillen house is a singularly dignified example of a Federal style country residence. In the Moore-McMillen house, the features of the Federal style are revealed in the handsome doorway with pilasters, panels, sidelights and transom, the delicate dentilled cornice adorning the eaves of the front, and the flush siding under the veranda. Its floor […]
“The Crimson Beech” (Cass House) on Staten Island is the only residence, and one of only two complete buildings, in New York City designed by American master architect Frank Lloyd Wright. An example of the “Prefab No. 111” prefabricated house designed by Wright in 1956 for builder Marshall Erdman & Associates of Madison, Wisconsin, “‘The […]
Picturesquely sited on Lighthouse (Richmond) Hill, this impressive Italianate villa, constructed around 1856 for Nathaniel J. and Ann C. Wyeth, is a fine example of the mid-nineteenth villas which once dotted the hillsides of Staten Island and are now becoming increasingly rare. A rare surviving masonry villa from this period when the majority of Staten […]
The Staten Island Light, or Richmond Light as it is commonly known, was commissioned in 1912. Operated under the jurisdiction of the United States Coast Guard, it is one of the range lights which helps to guide ships into the channels of New York Harbor. Standing on Lighthouse Hill and overlooking historic Richmondtown, this imposing […]
