Daller: I think weve touched on everything, really. All my life, I was raised in a big house. A unique and lasting tribute for a loved one. Right. And, she said, If so, we will give you gifts. And then that was the end. I would have saved it. A visitation will be held on Tuesday, September 21, 2021, from 6pm until 8pm at Wiley Funeral Home. Daller: The stables. The orientals that originally were on the floor here, I put up in the bedrooms upstairs. March 10, 2022 Daller: Well, its just the fact that the South Shore has gotten very built-up. And in the summer, he sits outside, enjoys the outdoors, enjoys the lawn, the grounds. George Burke, age 89 passed away on Sunday, October 10, 2021. Receive obituaries from the city or cities of your choice. 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. And a lot of people kept their horses in the stables. I dont know if it ever took off. And that was it. He was 63. I went to boot camp, I loved it. And the porch, I dont thinkone end of it, you wouldnt dare walk on because the whole thing would have collapsed. Because I wanted the man that built the house, and this is the man that saved the house. Obituaries Kenneth David Burke of Woburn, St.George . Chris was the one that got involved with it. Theres none of the spirits. You want to take down every statue thats been there for a thousand years because, No, that statue shouldnt be there. And then when you could see the house, it was a goddamn mess. And also about the history of Staten Island, or the style that the house is decorated in, the Victorian style, your collection. And over the years, it became just prohibitive to try and do. Im getting rid of everything. He said, I have three of the most beautiful Persian carpets from Persia, said, You cant get them anymore. He said, Theyre antiques but they are brand new, never used. He said, Im giving them to you. And this is them. George Harry Burke, age 76, departed this life and entered his eternal Heavenly home on September 17, 2021. Yes, of course, they could eat all the grass. He upholstered that chair with the things in the back. And a couple of my friends came as bartenders for me. The walkway going to the beach, its still there, where the house was. That wasyou probably dont rememberthere was this great big factory right down here, built on the beach. And they added this big dining room to the other side of the house. Burke: Oh, what I want to do isover that fireplace, I want to take that painting downand bring my painting and put it over that fireplace. View and upload photos of George Burke. Otherwise, Id never be able to have half the stuff thats in here because it would have cost me a private fortune to have it shipped. If you stood outside and looked at it, the staircase went that way. And everyone became extremely close. Would you like to offer George E. Burkes loved ones a condolence message? So it took a fortune, but I had it, all that money, to restore the house. I loved Alaska. Q: Yes, you can tell me about your early life and the memories you have of growing up here. You know, everybody grew up together. And they were good investments. I bought those buildings. Burke: Well, I dont know if people will ever realize in years and years to come that I saved so much, but they did give me a plaque for restoration. 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. They are Chinese Chippendale. My brother, he come in and he said, What are you, nuts? And one day I got a call from Mrs. Seguine. Yes, that was all Scalamandr. Family and friends are welcome to send flowers or leave their condolences on this memorial page and share them with the family. And you can put it together and fix it. And then, on the third floor, which was in the mansard roof, that was all the servants quarters. Burke: Yes, Mario come out all the time. And I only have so much money being what I am. So he said, Dont worry about it. So they. Burke | News | Apr 2016 Funeral Friday for Brenda Carina Soto, 16 "Brenda was full of life, vibrant, intelligent, and beautiful inside and out. And I was the assistant to the general who was the surgeon for the European Command. And the only reason why this survived is because nobody wanted the farmhouse! 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. And I took interior design and the history of architecture, and something else. Burke: Right across the creek. And if you went around with Mario Buatta, that was like going with the President of the United States. And we recognized Mario at the event. About the Burial Society; Join the Burial Society; Client Portal; Resources. That woman, she lived in riding clothes! The story about the coat that you had from Alaska? Daller: Well, yes. And then I what else? He come over he looked at it. Theyre deciding they want to build, so they tear down and build. Because she begged me. I was in the mansion when the sisters lived there. Q: Yes, absolutely. Or you can do a small whatever. It was so overgrown. So I got this on the front porch somewhere, nailed to the house, butdoesnt matter. But you used tell me. She lived up on Lighthouse Hill. Daller: Well, no, Mrs. Seguine allowed him to buy, Burke: No, I already had this house from the first deal. And he owned the funeral home. And I had a little house in Tottenville so I decided, well, Ill move into this big housein hereand Ill get rid of all the property that I have in Tottenville. And now the people that I sold it to, the Pistillis [James and Kathleen Pistilli], they had the whole thing researched and now its got landmark things on it and everything. So they built it like an attic and it was called an attic but it was a whole complete story. Q: Well, tell me about getting started on this house. 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. Daller: At least the property itself, because when you stood outside, I mean, you couldnt see anything. They couldnt handle it, the clientele that came in. Sign up for NYPAP mailings and our Newsletter to stay up-to-date. I started with the basement. Doug is survived by his children, Bradley Burke and his wife, Shirley and Suzanne Muller and her husband, Thomas. Hes the man that built the house. So it shows you that you have a friend forever. Burke: Theyll come in, but youll have to have somebody as a guide. Ill do the whole window. There was the main house, over here was the bar, over here was this big dining room, and this was the main house. Chance of rain 100%. You know, everybody knew him, and everybody, wow. My mother and his wife never got along too well. Either you buy me out, or I buy you out. Nobody wants to do that. I had all the walls done. I mean, we had clocks, baby-Ben clocks, hanging in apartments. Burke Marshall (October 1, 1922 - June 2, 2003) was an American lawyer and who served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division during the Civil Rights Movement . But I dreamt it and I knew every single thing about it. Q: The stuff that you got in England, from Mrs. Murphy. Daller: Thats a story you should share, about the lilacs and the lady. George's Obituary George Burke, or Uncle George to many, went on to be reunited with his wives, Brenda, Mary, and Margie; son, Scotty; and countless other loved ones, including 11 of his 12 siblings on Saturday, March 5, 2022, peacefully while surrounded by his family. Do you remember that? Obituary of George Burke George M. Burke, 62 , of Freehold Township, died Saturday, June 18, 2011 at home. But, Q: Let me ask you some more about the items that you collected when you were. Theyre very few. What a damn dream, there she was, laying in her coffin there, with her finger at me. George lived most of his life in Hubbard, Ohio, and was a 1963 graduate of Ursuline High School in Youngstown. Why cant they just appreciate something for what it is? They cant build houses on it. So I had all my goodies packed in a box, getting ready to go. And the house across the street from it, the Old [Sir Walter] Tyrrell House. And I want somebody to take care of it. George J. Burke Obituary It is with great sadness that we announce the death of George J. Burke (Rochester, New York), who passed away on October 17, 2022, at the age of 76, leaving to mourn family and friends. Like this chair that youre sitting in, these are Chippendale chairs in the Chinese style. She left things there. Now the little girl had to be moved to Wall Street. But when I die, they say theyre going to make a museum out of it. In a house that you dont even own? And I did, I got in St. George wasnt it? Daller: Thats been acquired over the years. He did the White House and everything. George passed away in October 1980, at age 58. And its still there, its all there. A unique and lasting tribute for a loved one. And we cant come over here because both of them lived way out in New Jersey, and theyd come every day. Jerry Allen Burke, Sr., 81, of Berry Lane passed away on February 14, 2023 at HopeHealth Hulitar Hospice Center. Lookit, I saved the police station and the two buildings next to the police station. Daller: And he formed the board in order to support the house. He was born here. I know all the grounds that were around it were beautiful gardens. Its still there. When I bought the house, the real estate people, they wouldnt go in. And hes the one that did my portrait upstairs. Obituaries Kenneth David Burke of Woburn, St.George . And I walked into there and I walked up, and the lid was closed on the coffin. I could make another funeral parlor out of that. And I said, No, lets not make a funeral parlor. 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. She had a caretaker or she had a woman that took care of her, or something. And right there in front of the windows was a coffin with all the flowers around it and everything. I mean, how did you decide what to purchase, what to collect? We have a choice in having a caretaker come in also to maintain it. Daller: No, that still has to be discussed. Daller: But it feels like home. So I said to her, I said Bess, the only thing Ill save your house is a bulldozer! The mansion, oh god. He had come into my room when I was not there, stole everything. (George), Charles Trentman "Trent" Burleson; grandchildren, Amy Elizabeth Walker (Bradley), Amanda Marie . EXCLUSIVE: Busy Philipps ( Girls5eva )has joined Paramount's Mean Girls musical movie, based on the Tony-nominated Broadway . If you were at the water looking up here, you couldnt see the house. And Id go downtown and Id wheel and deal for a bottle of whiskey. And then he got married and moved in with his wife. I did everything. Got a good price for a couple of other real estate pieces that I bought and fixed up and sold. He retired from BOCES as a bookkeeper. They were all along the waterfront here. And I said, Oh, shit. Q: Was it Mario that suggested the life tenancy agreement? I dont know what it is. Burke: To put it backbecause the house was ruined, it was in terrible shape. All that gorgeous porcelain, like the Flower Sellers Childrenits a big piece like that. I cant go and say, You know, fifty years ago that was mine, and I never gave it to you. George grew up in Fishtown and Continue Reading Because the other way, my uncle was digging into whatever a little bit of savings he had, in order to pay. Burke: She has it. Daller: Oh, yes. Burke: Chris will stay living here. Burke: Well, a good example is the one right here at the end of the street. Its a plus for the borough too. Things like that? George was an engaged conversationalist and even better listener. Oh, God, I worked so damn hard. George D. "Doug" Burke, 91, a lifelong resident of Point Pleasant passed away on Tuesday, January 12, 2021. I found these here on Staten Island in somebodys basement! This the expensive piece of property! They sold it to the developers. She came and did a lot for the draperies and everything here. People that owned U.S. Steel, their mansion was over there. She was married to her late husband, Joseph F. Burke, Sr. of Mahanoy City for 69 years. Burke: Yes. Yes, by the time I got to do all that I had no money left. Oh, that was the ghost in Tottenville. 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: And all the others like it, well, I can remember, on the other side of the pond over there, going alongthe mansions that were over there. Would you just sell me two acres there? Authorize the publication of the original written obituary with the accompanying photo. The importance of saying "I love you" during COVID-19, Effective ways of dealing with the grieving process, Solutions to show your sympathy safely during the Covid-19 pandemic. Absolutely gorgeous. And now theyre buildingI havent seen it, but Linda says its a huge house theyre building. Some mixed winter precipitation possible. He said he believes that whoever was in that other house, really didnt want people there. They just went and just vandalized it to hell until there was nothing but a shell left. So you really cant even try to say what does it feel like? Up until a year ago, he was still cutting the lawn! Daller: He did the sofa upstairs as well. 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. Burke: Well, Ill tell you, there wasnt that much in storagethe stuff that was in storage wasnt big pieces, maybe one or two. Receive obituaries from the city or cities of your choice. to the family or plant a tree And he and his wife, Adriana, they retired and moved to Florida. Wed go down through the junk yards and whatnot. He used to ride horses with Bess and her sister Belle, who attended Tottenville High School with him in the 1940s. Destroyed. It was piled up in their basement. George Burke was born on Staten Island and grew up in Annandale before moving to Florida with his family. He cant do this anymore. This old? Of course, I went to school here. You just named them. 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. She stated, George, I want you to save my house, and agreed to sell the house for a feasible sum in exchange for his promise to restore it. And there were two windows, like this. A brooch that I gave Bess? He resided in Cumberland for the past 48 years. Show Obituaries . 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. Or did you have to just guess and make decisions? I mean, its just normal living in a normal house. Q: The Friends of the Seguine Mansionthe friends group. With that old fabric, theres enough to make drapes for one window. Burke: What its been like for you to live here. Im only a salesman in a department store. I said, and its going to take a lot of money to put that house back together. She said, Well, Im going to help you all I can. And I said, But why would I fix a house I didnt own? And she said, Well, why dont we talk about that. She said, If youre interested in buying it, I will make the arrangements that you can own it. He was the loving son of Joan (Perry) Burke, of Plymouth, and the late George W. Burke and the loving brother of Stephen Burke . Daller: Well, he said, he felt that house had spirits in it. If you lived in Alaska, where it was always cold, it was fine. And were doing this interview in Burkes home, in the Seguine Mansion on the South Shore of Staten Island. Obituary George J. Burke Sr., 85, of Union Beach, New Jersey, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, April 14, 2020 at Bayshore Community Hospital in Holmdel, New Jersey. Family and friends are welcome to leave their condolences on this memorial page and share them with the family. Daller: No. And is there a way where, according to how you would like the house to be maintainedwould everything stay in its place? The importance of saying "I love you" during COVID-19, Effective ways of dealing with the grieving process, Solutions to show your sympathy safely during the Covid-19 pandemic. Q: Was that here in the house? 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. [laughs] And I lived there for a long time. He said, when he was moving here, he told the people there, he goes, Im moving. I traveled all over the world, traveled to Alaska, all over, with the military. That works! Thankfully, no ones come here and said, Oh, you might have had slaves. I mean, Im sure if somebody came and decided to look back, theyd say, Oh, no, theres a reason for a house like that. People have ideals that are very strange. I mean, this whole ceiling was shot. Burke: But anyway, it was a big beautiful cameo brooch, and was wrapped in an oil cloth rag! Honor a loved one by planting trees in their memory. Daller: No, I dont. That was a bigits still there. And I had the money to do it, and I said, You know, let me do it.. So I said, Well, I would have named it The Rossville Inn because it was in Rossville, but he will he loved Bermuda and he wanted Bermuda Inn. So I said, Yes, John, well call it the Old Bermuda Inn. 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. Mrs. Mackey. So most of the stuff is Victorianturn of the century and Victorian. So its a shame. 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? And from the garden, you could come back in under the porch and down into the kitchen in the basement. And it never had a kitchen. She was a healthy 16 years old who dreamed of being . He did so much work for you. Q: And will the board continue and play a role in in that? Theres too much business going on here. So were talking about this and talking about this. Obituary. Im sorry that, during all that construction, I wasnt taking photographs, of step by step. I just repainted. Burke: I think, what was left of it, the sons moved to California and they opened up a Scalamandr in California. He painted that for me. To send flowers Burke: Oh, God, Mario come out here all the time. And that was inwhere the hell, what did they call that area where all the Eskimos lived? So I went around and looked and looked and I said, You know, I could open a restaurant. And I walked around and I found a couple of nice places. Its still there in Port Richmond. And then I decided Id get involved again with things that are going on. Architectural style and interior style? I restored that, and that was an old mansionan old pillar-fronted mansionlooked like the house, similar. George Frederick Burke, honored husband, father and grandfather, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. And I made a lot of money. Thats what I was. I had the house put back together. Put through the years, people recognized it and everything. So thats where I got most of the stuff thats here in the house today. March 1, 2023 10:52am. Daller: Well, you got involved with Burkes Landing with Scalia. And then upstairs was like a big balcony above that porch. And it became quite the place to be. She was great because she would know. And she was laying like this. Legacy invites you to offer condolences and share memories of. Oh, God, it was gorgeous. I remember you always loved it and liked it. Q: and Linda Daller for the New York Preservation Archive Project. A reception will follow the services at the funeral home. Of course, over therewhen I was over thereEngland was just getting out of the bad part of the War [World War II], and they had nothing over there. 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. Brooke Burke . Devoted father of Matthew I. Burke, Jason L. Burke, and Georgina P. Burke, all of Hull. Sign up for our free funeral planning reminders to ensure this important decision isn't forgotten. And even though the house belongs, in essence, to Historic House Trust, they werent reimbursing him for anything. I said, Where are you? She said, Well, I moved out years ago and went back to Georgia. And so people saidthey took all the horses and they moved to New Jersey. [laughs]. Burke: Ed. And I got a good price for that. Were going to this estate. But those things, I couldnt. In fact, I think it was just landmarked wasnt it? And I had to laugh. Q: Yes. He was a US Air Force veteran, a timber cruiser for Georgia Pacific for 35 years, an avid bird . They tore down those two nice little cottages that were there. Yes, the dining room and the kitchen was on the other two, side. And I had a beautiful restaurant and a bar connected to it. Burke kept records of the work, most of which he completed himself and financed the through the sale of his business, the Tidewater Inn. Burke: What were the things I did when what? They were the Mackeys. So I couldnt take any of the clothes. So all the big mansions were built with outside kitchens. There were some gorgeous mansions. And they said, Well, we cant handle it, George. Memorial contributions may be made in memory of. Right across the creek. 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. Burke: Hawaii. But they donated it to the Sisters of Charity, figuring that the nuns could live in that gorgeous mansion. They just couldnt handle it. Thanks very much to you. Burke: Yes, she held the mortgage on it. He was predeceased by : his parents, Orie Burke and Amanda Burke (Jackson). Burke: Oh, well, look what I did. (732) 462-0101 mail@claytonfuneralhome.com 100 Elton-Adelphia Road (Rt. Jeanne Marie Trentman Burleson, 97 of Morganton, NC passed away Thursday, March 2, 2023. And, well, lets face it, they never had any hot water over there at all. She said, George, when she died, she was laid out in the coffin, right in that room, in front of those two windows. Its still there, you can see it. Q: Is there somebody in particular that you work with for reupholstery or restorations? He was the top interior designer in New York. So one day, my sister Bess said to my mother and me, she said, Go pack. When his appeal over the orders restraining attendance at the school was before the Court of Appeal on February 16th, the court's president, Mr Justice George Birmingham, warned Mr Burke any .