Kreischer House

Kreischer Mansion
Location 4500 Arthur Kill Rd., Staten Island, New York
Coordinates 40°31′57″N 74°14′18″W / 40.53250°N 74.23833°W / 40.53250; -74.23833Coordinates: 40°31′57″N 74°14′18″W / 40.53250°N 74.23833°W / 40.53250; -74.23833
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built ca. 1885
Architectural style American Queen Anne
NRHP reference # 82001199[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP October 29, 1982
Designated NYCL February 20, 1968

Kreischer Mansion is a historic home located at Charleston, Staten Island, New York. Built by Bavarian immigrant Balthasar Kreischer about 1885, it is a large, asymmetrically massed ​2 1⁄2-story, wood-frame house in the American Queen Anne style. The rectangular house features spacious verandas, gables with jigsaw bargeboards, decorative railings, posts and brackets, tall chimneys, and a corner tower. It was one of two mansions built by Kreischer for his sons. The surviving house belonged to son Edward Kreischer, the other one had been his brother Charles'.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

History

On 8 June 1894, Edward B. Kreischer committed suicide by shooting himself in the right temple near his place of business.[2][3] Since then, there have been claims that Kreischer has haunted the property.[2][4] Along with other local stories of the house's violent history, this has given the house a supernatural reputation, leading it to be used as a location on television shows including Boardwalk Empire.[2]

In 1998 the Kreischer Mansion was bought with the intention of restoration and eventual sale by Isaac Yomtovian.[2] In 2008, then caretaker Joe Black was revealed to be a hitman for the Bonnano crime family.[5] He was convicted of the murder of rival mob associate Robert McKelvey, committed three years earlier on the property.[5][6][7]

Today the House frequently plays host to art and culture events.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Lehto, Steve (3 February 2015). American Murder Houses: A Coast-To-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide. Penguin. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "With a Bullett in His Skull". New York Tribune. New York. 1894-06-09. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
  4. ↑ Schellmann, Hilke (24 October 2012). "Spirits moving on S.I." The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  5. 1 2 Sietsema, Robert (3 December 2010). "Killmeyer's and the Kreischer Mansion: Meat and Murder in Staten Island". The Village Voice. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2016-04-01. Note: This includes Anne B. Covell (September 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Kreischer House" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-01. and Accompanying three photographs
  7. ↑ William K. Rashbaum (2006-05-12). "Grisly Mob Killing at S.I. Mansion Is Detailed". New York Times. New York. Retrieved 2016-04-09.


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