That came in part from the attorney. He has served since last July as a judge of the Metropolitan Tribunal. Daller: No. Burke: You want it from the first day I was born in the hospital across the street? Daller: See, now you learned about kitchens. No, it wasnt that. And the backyard is beautiful. Up until a year ago, he was still cutting the lawn! I woke up with a sweat. FDNY firefighter Timmy Burke. Burke: So, in other words, fifty years from now, if someone wants to learn about the house, they can find out. George Burke. Right across the creek. And the post is still there and the staircase is still in good shapebut thats still in the house, now, down there. Yes. Constantly. I moved in the house, and I would come in the house, and right in the front hallway, you could always smell lilacs. My father was in the political-end, and he was in Borough Hall and everything like that. And you would have been taxed in this country if it was already like that. Daller: Well, they hope to. Because there was a big double parlor like this on one side of it. And he said, George, Im selling my business. Dont look at me. George Burke is the restorer of the historic Seguine Mansion on the South Shore of Staten Island, where he has lived and taken care of the property for over four decades. We have a choice in having a caretaker come in also to maintain it. Q: Yes. Q: And did you keep records of the restoration process? Everybody came in to a coldwater flat in the Bronx and walked in amazed because theyve never seen anything like that. The mayor and everybody else in the cityyou cant ride on the beach. That was her name. And I had a beautiful restaurant and a bar connected to it. She was the widow of the late Louis A. Muscatello and J. Kenneth Feiden, Sr. and predeceased. Lets move out, youre being kicked out anyway, the house is sold. Q: And how did you decide, I guess, how to rebuild? That house, it was a big French mansard, big Victorian. 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. Burke: Oh, its in beautiful condition because the guy I told you, Jimmy Pistilli, he had it landmarked. All my life, I was raised in a big house. And places on Staten Island are being destroyed every minute of the dayyou find another house is goingand its happening in all the boroughs! In fact, I think it was just landmarked wasnt it? I bought another restaurant, didnt I? Daller: Yes, I found him. Wed go down through the junk yards and whatnot. I bet shes there. They were all womens stuff. And then, where they built the schoolwhat is that girls school up here? Thats not good. The same thing thats going on with statues. But I forgot what the other two things were. (nee Rutecki) Laudeman. Im gonna save this house. And then the Historic House Trust will use it as well to understand whats important to you about maintaining the house. Daller: Yes, definitely. 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. They gave me the fabric and they did it and such. And there were two windows, like this. 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. Daller: And he formed the board in order to support the house. Soon, nobody had room in their house to store anymore of my stuff. I bet I left the cellar door open under the stairwell, from the basement, and I bet thats the soap Ive got in the washing machine that smells like that. I saved that, thats still there. Burke: About the candle? Daller: Then you got rid of thatbut those are the early days. Our History; Map & Directions . Yes, he helped me with the colors, and this and that, and what I should getgood orientals for the floor, which I had but they werent these. Theyre going out for the garbage. I said, No, no, no, Im trying to take them. So I took them and I had them all redone and reupholstered, and here they are. Burke: Theyll come in, but youll have to have somebody as a guide. I mean, its physically impossible. Burke: So, my sister Marge, and my sister Bess, would come over and help me. Happy Birthday to George Burke! All rights reserved. I was born on Oct. 11, 1930, one of nine siblings, to an. So they went into repairing things. Do you remember that? They even stopped you riding in the parks. Burke: Yes. Daller: Well, remember how much it took to paint the whole house, and how you had to paint sections of it? Q: No, that covers it! I did go around and take pictures of what was left of some of them. And all these houses would never here! The front porch was up high. He previously was pastor of St. Clement-St. Michael, Staten Island, 1977-1988, and of Annunciation . can stop at any time. Lets keep fighting it, because there was no way to fight. Because look how long the war went, and England had nothing. 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. By the time I got to the to where they were discharging them and such, he had just been discharged and left on an airplane. 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 there was a big flight of stairs that went across the big porch across the front of the house, posts. Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow. And then you could walk under the porch out into the garden. Sure, Id no idea of ever owning his house because I had a beautiful big house in Tottenvillebig French style house. They tore down those two nice little cottages that were there. Subsequently, I worked for Sherwin Williams in their design department.What did you do after that?I bought the Seguine Mansion, my home, in 1981, and began my journey. The one in particular, United States Steel [Corporation]. So then I said, well, what the hell am I gonna do? And, minute he bought the house, did a little work in it, put it right up for sale. Burke: Well, a good example is the one right here at the end of the street. Loving brother of Stephen Burke of Florida, Joan Burke of Plymouth, and Timothy Burke of Plymouth. Father James E. Burke, who served for 15 years as pastor of Sacred Heart parish on Staten Island, died Oct. 4. Daller: Stating that it is part of it part of Historic House. And I went around and we all hadyou were only allowed to buy two bottles of wine and a bottle of whiskey, or something. If you haven't identified the high-style social by now, it's George Burke 's "White Party," the classic celebration staged in the Seguine-Burke Mansion, the Greek Revival-style,. And we were great friends. Yes. You are to get out. Q: The stuff that you got in England, from Mrs. Murphy. Among them are two white ones. You werent on Staten Island. Nobody wants to do that. And then I shipped it all back home. I could make another funeral parlor out of that. And I said, No, lets not make a funeral parlor. Must have been twelve big columns, it was, oh! But I had all this beautiful carved stuff. The fact that the Seguine familythis was the farmhouse, their mansion was in Rossvilleand thats long gone. And they were big floors. And with the Air Force, I enjoyed every minute. Thats the only thing in the house left from the Seguines. But the one that I remember was a great big brooch. 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. Burke: It was. So I paid it off and bought it in cash, with the cash. Visiting hours Friday, October 8, 2021, from 4-7 pm in McNamara-Sparrell Funeral Home, 1 Summer St. (across from St. Anthony Church), Cohasset. Burke: Oh god. It feels like home, because thats what its been. Half the railings were gone off the porch, and the column was falling over, and, oh, Jesus. I have no idea what it would be like to live in some other place. Daller: But it feels like home. Im sure some will. If you want to come, behave yourselves. New York City Death Records and Indexes - includes Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. They just couldnt handle it. And you cant control it from the grave. Yes, Mrs. Mackey. Its going to hell. With that old fabric, theres enough to make drapes for one window. In lieu of flowers, donations to honor George may be made to Tunnels to Towers Foundation, 2361 Hylan Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10306. Read more about the life story of George and share your memory. Yes. Of course, nothings there. And then of course, being in New York and being in the thing like that, I got to be very, very good friends, with Scalamandr. 02045, followed by interment in Hull Village Cemetery. The only thing that will save this house as a bulldozer! [laughs] But anyway, I saved it. Come here, Marge. I said, What? They said, Sell this goddamn place. Burke: Yes, its a big oil painting, a big painting like this. And youd walk out, and the porch was all brick, and at the end of the porch was a big arch that had little windows in it and a French door where you could walk out to the garden. I mean, Captains Quarters, instead of building all those condos down there, it would have been beautiful to have another stately home there. Just landmarked. Yes. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of George W. Burke . But anyway, I had come back to America. I was seventeen years with the Air Force. George was an engaged conversationalist and even better listener. And I had to laugh. Why cant they just appreciate something for what it is? Put a candle right in the middle of that floor and go take a walk. [laughs] He called it the one-candle house. I mean, I could do a little woodwork, but I wasnt a carpenter. Im no bulldozer!. Burke: Oh, it was a relationship over whole period. And then when they decided thatthey owned a beautiful house on one of the Keys in Florida. The kitchen was never in the basement. So I still had to get up every day and go to work. I said, Where are you? She said, Well, I moved out years ago and went back to Georgia. Q: So this is going to part of an online archive. That was something that you had restoredis that right? Father Michael Martine has served since 2009 as pastor of St. Joseph's parish, Staten Island. A brooch that I gave Bess? The oldwhat the hell was itgrocery store. [laughs] And I lived there for a long time. And she couldntthey couldnt keep up with it anymore. I think so. I loved Alaska. And now theyre buildingI havent seen it, but Linda says its a huge house theyre building. Its Meissen. And I had the two apartments! So it took a fortune, but I had it, all that money, to restore the house. She was a nasty old lady! But that was funny. Christine of Cincinnati, Ohio and sons Thomas Burke and wife Christine; John Burke and wife Patricia of Staten Island. And we were great gardeners and she had always come over in the spring, and she gave me little cuttings of all the flowers, and the different things. They didnt even have soap. Burke: She has it. Burke: Well, I hope it gets maintained. Q: So its confidential becauseoh, okay. And I took that for years. And so I had all that stuff in my apartment. Burke: Well, I wanted a beautiful Victorian look. Eventually she decided she wanted to give it up and approached me with a cry of "George save my house" and I did.What was it like at that time?It was in terrible shape. Would you just sell me two acres there? Loving son of Joan (Perry) Burke of Plymouth and the late George W. Burke. I did everything. So tell me about when you went to Europe. And my neighbor across the street, who had lived there forever, she comes over again with a couple of little plants for me. Oneida County GenWeb Site includes death indexes, obituaries and cemetery listings Oneida County: Waterville Times Obituary Index . Was very little time on here. Burke: No, who gave me that? But not long ago, I was talking about it. He was a 1968 graduate of Minersville Area High . Q: and Linda Daller for the New York Preservation Archive Project. GEORGE BURKE OBITUARY. The son and his wife took over Scalamandr. 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