Thats not good. The same thing thats going on with statues. His family was like aristocratic. George Burke. He was from Central America somewhere, and he just believed in everything had to be right. Luis was great. Viewing times and guestbooks can be found here . The Seguine Mansion, also known as The Seguine-Burke Mansion, is located on Lemon Creek near the southern shore of Staten Island. And places on Staten Island are being destroyed every minute of the dayyou find another house is goingand its happening in all the boroughs! I know everything, what to do. That whole salon set there was a Victorian salon setand the couch is a camelback. New York obituaries and death notices, 1986 to rent. That poor horse. And it was the most amazing party. Burke: But anyway, when my time was up in the service, they shipped me back here to, Burke: Alaska, and I stayed in Alaska. This old? Theyd come out and Id say, Look, I can get you this. 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. Skip to main content (800) 896-5587. And then, it was declared unsafe, and they come in and knocked it down. Too bad that there wasnt somebody with a brain. I said, Oh shit, look at this. And I pulled that out and unwrapped it, and what the hell was in it? Burke: Well, most of the stuff in the house, he worked with me. It feels like home, because thats what its been. Funeral homes; Help and . But not long ago, I was talking about it. They couldnt handle it, the clientele that came in. Theyd work out, and theyd be waiters, or this and that. Christ, a good ten, twelve years. All these empty buildings and things. And then Iwhatd I do then, Ioh, I paid for this house, didnt I? Daller: Mm-hmm. So I would walk around, Id look and Id see some beautiful stuff for sale, for nothing. Daller: That was the house that had ghosts. We have a choice in having a caretaker come in also to maintain it. And I renovated the bar, I renovated the other side, my two sisters came to work for me, running the kitchen and the dining room. Christ, we had a good time. Why cant they just appreciate something for what it is? Visitation will be held on April 24, 2015 at 2:00 pm at Casey Funeral Home, 350 Slosson Ave, Staten Island, NY. She spent most of her life as a homemaker. I knew what she looked like, I knew where it was. And its three little girls sitting on a bench with big baskets of flowers in front of them. In fact, her husband was a big-wig. Burke: Well, I knew how to do it. Betsy P. Thompson East Greenbush, New York. So I rented the apartment next door, and I broke a hole in the wall. Yes, Mrs. Mackey. He upholstered that chair with the things in the back. It was so overgrown. 06/26/1943 - 02/20/2023. Daller: You know, people dont understand them. Q: When you were making those decisions about decorating, were you thinking about a particular style, like a historic style, that you were going for? And all these houses would never here! It doesnt happen on the North Shore because were very condensed and its a dense population. I saved that, thats still there. Would you just sell me two acres there? I didnt know they were lilacs, but I could smell something pretty. Daller: Well, they hope to. Of course, she loved the smell of lilacs. And it was one of those busy, busy, goddamn nights. Daller: Yes. Phone: (718) 966 . Q: When you were youngwhen you were a kid. And I got a big certificate for saving that. I had all the plasters done. Q: And how did you keep track of all the items in your collection as they were moving from, Burke: Well, a lot of this stuff, I never got back, because once you left it for years and years, you werent going to go back and say, Well, give me that, and give me this. Was it your mother I gave her all the blue and. Daller: Oh, yes. And I had the two apartments! Syosset. And whats going on up the street here now? Q: And you knew the style from having studied the history of design and architecture. Ive been to the Tenement Museum, and I love the fact that theres a woman on a loop and she discusses living in the apartment. I said to him, Are you kidding? The Greek Revival house is one of the few surviving examples of 19th Century life on Staten Island. I forgot whose house it was. And it was called SS White [Dental Manufacturing Company]. So the next day, Im up and Im outside. And they were going to pay for everything if they owned it. He painted that for me. Would you like to elaborate on that? Devoted father of Matthew I. Burke, Jason L. Burke, and Georgina. But he was excellent. Because the water was in the basement for so many years, all the dampness had lifted all the floorboards and everything, and so I had to dry the house out, and replaster the walls. Burke: Sure. So there wasnt a lot of time spent here. But I had all this beautiful carved stuff. People, Oh, could you help me? And especially when I came to Staten Island and I was working for Sherwin Williams, andwhat the hell, Florence? So thats how that all came about. So I went down and I just went around and everything I seenall the stuff you see hanging in this house, most of it come from me going around and wheeling and dealing in, you might as well say, the black market. I restored that, and that was an old mansionan old pillar-fronted mansionlooked like the house, similar. And she had this woman who was a caretaker. You cant ride on the street. I got one or two things out of it. There was the main house, over here was the bar, over here was this big dining room, and this was the main house. Valley Stream. I said, No, no, no. He introduced me all the time tobecause look at look at what he was. I lived in one room, for almost five years. I bet shes there. Located in Staten Island, NY. I mean, look, theyve been trying to get rid of the carriage horses in the city, for how long now? Daller: The staircase wasnt even straight. George Burke's White Party NEW! So I made sure it was filled in with dirt the rest of the way, so I wouldnt have that water getting in the basement. I had all the walls done. And I didnt realize it because I was always working. What a gorgeous home that was. Developers. But I dont remember seeing the main house. Q: [Laughs] Yes. And she kept, George, please, go save my house. I said, I still have friends that myour parents met before we met. And is there a way where, according to how you would like the house to be maintainedwould everything stay in its place? I moved in the house, and I would come in the house, and right in the front hallway, you could always smell lilacs. Burke: I think that waswhod ya call-it got me involved with that. Find the obituary of William Burke (1966 - 2021) from Staten Island, NY. 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. There isnt a room he doesnt go into. I went to grammar school and high school here. 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. But when they were building houses, if you had a third story, your taxes went out of sight! Its empty. And thats what this house is. 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. Oh, that was the ghost in Tottenville. Before he left, the house was fine. You buy me out. And he bought me out. So thats where I got most of the stuff thats here in the house today. Tell me when you want me to start. That was the most beautiful mansion. So I paid it off and bought it in cash, with the cash. Burke: Oh, my nephew. 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? Q: Yes. Because she would always want her bottle of booze. So I would go to the flea markets and things. And she was laying with her arms, like that. Wow, what a great place. I said, now here you are, the woman we always wondered about, asking me if Im interested in saving that house? Remember him? I said I was the only person at that timemy uncle gave me my sweet sixteen there, and all my friends were invited to come formal. Id come back up and I could still smell it in the hallway. And we were great friends. Stole all that carved stuff, stole all that stuff, that whole box of stuff. All my life, I was raised in a big house. The Old Bermuda Inn. So we talked to our brother Bill and he had come up with the money, bought the house. And we were sitting in the kitchen in the basement and he was going on the Ouija board and I said, What does it say, what does it say? And Eric is sitting there and hes talking, and hes sounding like a lady, and hes saying, Youre in my house, and I dont want you. Burke: Yes. Q: Can you tell me about moving the collections here, out of storage and out of your sisters houses into this house? He come over he looked at it. 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 Luis Caizares painted that. But the basement was the summer dining rooms and summer kitchen. All Rights Reserved, Town Departments at Work: The role of each part of your local government. 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, I had a lot of time over there in London and so I decided, Well, hell, Im going to go to school and learn something. So I took interior design. The mansion was gorgeous! See Photos. Burke: years ago, because I couldnt afford to keep it. Its still there in Port Richmond. With a little more improvement, and he would do a little improving on what I wanted, you know, then it was perfect when Mario did it. Daller: From Michael and Jennifer, your nephew. Still kept it. This was in the East Bronx, this was on 167th and College Avenue. So I moved into the house here. They were gorgeous. Because he paid for the entire outside himself. 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. Because the problem was is that my uncle was paying for everything in the househe was paying for the heating, he was paying all the utilities, paying all the bills. Q: So what was it like when you had the house finished and furnished? Burke: I dont find any difference living here. So as long as you have people, youre going to have change, and people are going to say, That doesnt work! The son and his wife took over Scalamandr. And this is Sarah Dziedzic. I mean, lets face it. And thats what they were doing in France to keep from getting it taxed. That was gorgeous. Its a plus for the borough too. Like there was old Greek, like the Parthenon, the Greek templesoh, it was beautiful. Then I got shipped to Europe. Ticonderoga. 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. They were all along the waterfront here. And there was nobody but my mother and I now, living in our house. And then I went through floor and room after room, and took almost five years to put the house in good shape, the way you could see it. Burn it down, put a candle in the middle of the hall. Daller: Well he formed that, thats the board. Q: No, that covers it! And hes the one that did my portrait upstairs. And I just got a call from all my lady friends saying that my house is falling apart. What are we gonna do here? So he said, Well, I really love doing this, George. And I said, Okay, John, thats fine. Join Facebook to connect with George Burke and others you may know. Donald was born August 16th, 1954, in Staten Island, New York, to Michael and Eleanor. So a couple of days later, I have a dream. Linda? Burke: Oh god. Anyway, I said, Oh boy, did I have a scary dream. I told her my dream. And I took interior design and the history of architecture, and something else. Daller: And he formed the board in order to support the house. You couldnt see the grounds through the trees and it was just covered and everything. I mean, how did you decide what to purchase, what to collect? And I invested in a couple of things. Q: Can you tell me about studying interior design? Coach Robert Joseph "Bob" Burke, 74, died April 4, 2020, at home, surrounded by his loving family, in Wilson, N.C. Click here to view all obituaries Search Obituaries Contact Us / Location. Got a good price for a couple of other real estate pieces that I bought and fixed up and sold. That was the mansion. The Seguine girls, as they were called,. Burke: And that was called the Tidewater Inn. Served in NYPD for 25 years, ran many mararthons George Arthur Croake, 78, of Manasquan, NJ (previously Flatbush, Brooklyn & New Dorp, Staten Island) passed away peacefully . 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 the only problem with that was the kitchen was downstairs. I open the door to the parlor. She said, George, when she died, she was laid out in the coffin, right in that room, in front of those two windows. Because I wanted the man that built the house, and this is the man that saved the house. So I just grew up with it, knowing it. No, it wasnt that. And then I shipped it all back home. But it only reached a certain point of it, not in the very beginning. Mon-Fri, 7am-6pm MDT . And then Id been in Europe all that time. Isnt that a huge house theyre building, you told me? And thats what I called out for was help. Is there anything, you think? And we cant come over here because both of them lived way out in New Jersey, and theyd come every day. And I gave that, I thinkI dont know if I gave it to Bess. He did so much work for you. The woodwork, the moldings, the parquet floors. Oh, God, it was gorgeous. I went to boot camp, I loved it. Mrs. Mackey. And a friend of mine I was very good friendly with was John. Q: Yes. And when I seen it all over there, and when I seen the British people were poor as church mice, they were selling everything. And I looked in the thing, I said, Holy shit. Q: Was it a similar style? And they would give me all kinds of beautiful little carved objects and things that would be carved out of the whales teeth or. So after a couple of years going back and forth, his daughter, she decided she wanted to get involved in it. Take a walk. I said, No, no, Im gonna save this house. He said, Oh! Q: Your collection of the items that you bought from Mrs. Murphy. So I bought it. Everybody smelled like that. Create an obituary. Burke: Scalia. I dont need The Death of Cleopatra hanging above my fireplace. Ill tell you the good stuff! [laughs] And that was it. And have something on a loop in here, which weve been trying to do, where itll be an audio and a video of him discussing the house, because nobody knows it any better than he does. Burke: Oh, it was a relationship over whole period. Loving son of Joan (Perry) Burke of Plymouth and the late George W. Burke. The one owned by the steel companywas that a beautiful house! And I loved it. I was in the mansion when the sisters lived there. And I dont like this. And shed go to her father and her father and say, You know, George, shes my daughter, and this and thatand I said, Yes, well, John, let me tell you something. Thats why I did what I did, because I figured that if anything ever happens to me, all of this, now, will have to stay as it is. Thats the only thing people could bring. Q: So those things that you got later on, afterthey didnt come from Europe. I bought the house and Bess and Marge came over. You werent on Staten Island. Q: How did you establish a relationship with the Parks Department and the Historic House Trust? Burke: But I forgot what the other two things where. And the house was like this, a big piece with two big wings. And not only that, we got a lot of manureI used to have it to put on all the gardens and to put on the fields and whatnot. My brother, he come in and he said, What are you, nuts? Q: And, do you keep records on, on those kinds of things? He was an old craftsman from the other side. And getting an American Dollar from being in the service, getting my payeven though it wasnt that muchbut at that time, over there, it was worth a fortune. She was the girl who hired me, and she ran the big Sherwin Williams store. They cant develop it. In a house that you dont even own? And that painting of me, thats upstairs in my bedroomdid you ever see it? Daller: Mm-hmm! I, being the youngest, of course, seeing everybody growing up. 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