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Daller: He did the sofa upstairs as well. Thats the only way to explain it. Q: Andif this is something that you cant discuss, let me knowbut, for example, if you decide to repaint, like you did in this room, is that something that the board fundraises for? And because of that, and especially the interior design thing, I went around, did little jobs, and did things, and because I learned so much by going to that to school there, that when I got back here, I got nice little jobs here and there. Daller: He enjoys the whole house. And I went in and I noticed my big box was gone. I collected all my antiques and all my stuff when I was traveling. But anyway, she said, Im not going in the house. And they said he had the box, and took it with them. And thats where she was. She said, You saw her in your dream. I said, Holy shit, I said, you think that was her? She said, It could have been her. I said, Then she went like that and chased me out of her house. She said, That was her. And their mansion, the White people that owned SS White, the White family, owned right across the creek, there, where the Captains Quarters [private development] are. But it looked like an attic with the roof like that and everything. Sell the other half to Billthat was my brother and you and George, move with me to Florida. So we all thought that was a great idea. And the porch, I dont thinkone end of it, you wouldnt dare walk on because the whole thing would have collapsed. They didnt even have soap. Burke: Well, if she left them there, she had to come back as a ghost and tell me that they were there! For example, could you tell what the original construction was? They couldnt. And in the back of the house, its still there, is aChrist, it must be half the size of this roomis a huge, huge lilac bush. Death and Obituary Indexes from the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library includes: Buffalo Deaths, 1882-1892; Death Notices and Obituaries in the Buffalo News, 4-22-2009 to 2010; Index to Births, Marriages, and Deaths found in select Buffalo and Erie County Publications, 1870s-1950; some cemetery burial records; and other items. It was under your bunk. The kitchen was never in the basement. And I took interior design and the history of architecture, and something else. I restored that, and that was an old mansionan old pillar-fronted mansionlooked like the house, similar. This the expensive piece of property! They sold it to the developers. Most of the furniture thats hereI never furnished the house until I owned it. Finally, I think his wife got sick with that lung disease, didnt she? But big stuff like couches and chairs and that kind of thing. It was a mess of a mess. Burke is joined in this interview by his niece, Linda Daller. Linda? Take a walk. I said, No, no, Im gonna save this house. He said, Oh! And then upstairs was like a big balcony above that porch. I would have saved it. I said, Gee, look at these chairs. And they said, Yes, look at them. Burke: You want it from the first day I was born in the hospital across the street? And then, it wasI guess that was in the spring, then later on, I dont know what I was doing. Its going to hell. I think hes given you a great history of what started and, basically, youve talked about his life from the beginning, so, I dont know. Because I certainlyI never passed up a bargain. After Burke returned to Staten Island, he purchased and restored two houses and an old restaurant and bar before he was contacted by Bess Seguine in 1981, who had inherited the then-deteriorated Seguine Mansion. I did everything. That is the only thing that worries methat the house will be stripped. And I kept life rights for it. And she said, George, you have so much with design and such, I want you to take over the wallpaper department and the fabric department. I did fantastic for the store. And if they only would have remained, they would have been a part of it, and everything could have been fully appreciated. I had all the walls done. Daller: Yes, well, thats what we just said, yes. Destroyed. Anyway, I said, Oh boy, did I have a scary dream. I told her my dream. I went over there, and it was standing up sleeping! What the hell do you think it was? Q: So he knew how much work it would take over the years and what a relationship would be like to. And I said, well, Im going to retire. Burke: I dont find any difference living here. So, thats it, I said, to hell with it. The stables were here for years. And the White Party we do in order to take care of doing cleanup on the lawn, doing any kind of plantings, or anything, because he did it all the years. And the basement was beautiful, where you can walk out onto the porch and out into the garden. So I come home dead tired. And Ed was very good at taking dents and things out of cars and he could spray paint. And he said, George, Im selling my business. Well, Bess, and my brothers wife, Evelyn, never got along. And what they did is they bought a whole fleet of old taxis. Burn it down, put a candle in the middle of the hall. Because we went to about every Air Force base in Europe there was, and I got around to see everything. But the story that was cuteremember the lady in England, the antique dealer, that used to bring her bottles all the time? And when I seen it all over there, and when I seen the British people were poor as church mice, they were selling everything. I saved it years and years ago. She said, Now you can save it., And I said, Well, I can save it. Obituary George W. Burke, age 63, of Hull, entered into eternal rest on October 2, 2021. You werent allowed to buy much because it was worth a fortune over there to the general public, to the British. Burke: One was a necklace with a heart on it. Click here to view all obituaries Search Obituaries Contact Us / Location. And I decided, well, Im going to pick up some nice buildings. What a shame. Burke: Sure. I mean, this whole ceiling was shot. Burke: Oh god. Ill do the whole window. So they said, You better get back here and do something. So I came back, got out of the military, got a job working for Saks Fifth Avenue. And each little petal and everything is done beautiful. Or did you have to just guess and make decisions? Burke: Yes. So most of the stuff is Victorianturn of the century and Victorian. Or next to the chair where she was sitting. Q: How did you establish a relationship with the Parks Department and the Historic House Trust? Either you buy me out, or I buy you out. And all the time when all the lilacs would come in the spring, and the whole place would smell of lilacs, its gorgeous, still is. Well, do you know what your preferences are? . You could ask for their house and youd get it. They were all six floor walkups and, thats where you lived! So a lot of the things that you acquired to furnish the house were in poor condition, and then you have them reupholstered and restored. And you can put it together and fix it. Q: So those things that you got later on, afterthey didnt come from Europe. No, its not something were talking about right now. People didnt want it because it had such a reputation as being haunted. And I had more bargains from Mrs. Murphy. Get service details, leave condolence messages or send flowers in memory of a loved one in New York. Now the little girl had to be moved to Wall Street. She married her husband Thomas Burke on April 24, 1965, and had five children. Daller: So can you imagine a three room apartment filled to the brim with antiques? And I never got along with her that much because everything I wanted to do, she said, No, no, no, I dont like that. She came and did a lot for the draperies and everything here. Burke: Oh, its in beautiful condition because the guy I told you, Jimmy Pistilli, he had it landmarked. So itll be part of Staten Island that people, maybe fifty years from now when theres not a spot left, theyll all come out and theyll look and say, Wow, this is what it used to be.. And the only reason why this survived is because nobody wanted the farmhouse! And a friend of mine I was very good friendly with was John. And he saw the way to help out, and I said, well form a board and what well do is well continue to have fundraisers in order to support the house, but we need additional help and support as well. And it was twice the size of this house. Theres a bunch of little houses now built all along through their gardens. Is there anything else that you would like to add about the house as it is now, the history, or the future of the house? And the post is still there and the staircase is still in good shapebut thats still in the house, now, down there. Burke: Yes, I paid off this house. And there were two windows, like this. Im giving nothing away. Theyll take care of it and be able to show tours. So this house tells a particular story, a long history, but it cant tell the history of the other houses because they were so different. I slept in it, lived in it, ate in it. But what was really, really bad was people, if they were going to build a garage, or they were going to build something, theyd go to that big, beautiful mansion and rip the siding off of it and take it back to build what they want to build. They really dont know what history is all about. And Luis was really, really a great guy. I went around and I got it and shipped it all back home. You got to get out. So we moved to Florida. They dont know it. So if this can remain a part of the history, thatll be great for people to appreciate. When I bought the house, the real estate people, they wouldnt go in. This was all field, all the way up, and she used to turn the horses loose on all the fields out there. And it never had a kitchen. I know the Port Richmond store you just bought. You couldnt even see it. And theyd come out and Id get involved with them. So I went up with Father Tom and I had to take care of all those Eskimos, if any of them got sick or hurt this or that. He spends time in every part of it. Burke: It was. So theres no more Scalamandr, I dont think, is there? And, you know, who has that!? Q: Did you keep up a conversation with Mario Buatta about. Lives in Rochester, New York. 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. George Burke was born on Staten Island and grew up in Annandale before moving to Florida with his family. New York obituaries and death notices, 1986 to rent. Burke: Yes, its a big oil painting, a big painting like this. That poor horse. Thats not good. The same thing thats going on with statues. I know all the grounds that were around it were beautiful gardens. That whole salon set there was a Victorian salon setand the couch is a camelback. That came in part from the attorney. Burke: Well, most of the stuff in the house, he worked with me. That house, it was a big French mansard, big Victorian. 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. Yes, but that was all the legal aspect of it. So I had all my goodies packed in a box, getting ready to go. Or you can do a small whatever. Burke: I think that waswhod ya call-it got me involved with that. So I go downstairs. Ticonderoga. That was gorgeous. Frank Tredici. So Walter was re-stationed to Fort Lauderdale in Florida. And he wanted to retire and he gave his son the business. But, thats what I did. Q: Yes. Yes. So he came out. He come over he looked at it. And you can ask[gesturing to Daller], Daller: Everybody got something. I just repainted. And I got a big certificate for saving that. Everybody had left, and Bess and Marge were there, and Bess said to me, George, sit down. She was living in the house untilshe owned it until she died, and then I would take it over. Theyre all McMansions. You can go and look and read about anything about the South Shore of Staten Island. And then you could walk under the porch out into the garden. Cohasset crypto case: Everything court documents reveal. Adriana would come out and shed say, Well, Ill tell you what, George. And the house across the street from it, the Old [Sir Walter] Tyrrell House. And I went from room to room and it took me a couple of years, didnt it? Or is there a way for things to be changed? I bought those in Germany. You cant ride on the street. I have questions about closets too! Burke: Anyway, she was well known here on Staten Island. My father was in the political-end, and he was in Borough Hall and everything like that. I took forty-four big trees down in the front field just so you could clear the front and see the house. Developers. So I found this big beautiful, French, mansard roof, big Victorian house in Tottenville. Q: And, do you keep records on, on those kinds of things? And I was always a horse person. I knew what she looked like, I knew where it was. So here I was with all this stuff, sending it home to my family, sending it to my sisters. And that painting of me, thats upstairs in my bedroomdid you ever see it? 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. And if I couldnt take care of them, Id call down to the base and theyd send a helicopter and theyd pick them up and take them down to the hospital, because we had to take care of them, because Alaska was ours, and all the Eskimos was our responsibility. You said you started with the basement. Burke: After I had the house, then I got the big pieces of furniture. Thats what it is. Well work it out, one way or another. And so the two of us started and we madecalled it the Old Bermuda Inn because John loved Bermuda and he was putting a lot of money in it. So it didnt matter. I wanted to ask about the Equestrian Center. Burke: Oh, it was all overgrown with undergrowth. And the only problem with that was the kitchen was downstairs. Daller: And he uses every room, he doesnt sit in one room. 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