John H Foreman, 61North Augusta, SC

Halstead Property
New York, NY
212-3813269 (Phone)
License #2-JHF

John joined Halstead Property LLC in 1991 after a twenty year career as a writer. Last book: and The Vanderbilts and the Gilded Age and with an Introduction by Louis Auchincloss (St. Martins Press, 1991). Current focus is sales and rentals of architecturally interesting coops, condos, and townhouse properties, primarily on the Upper East and Upper West Sides of Manhattan, but also in Chelsea, the Upper Upper West Side, the Village, and/or anywhere good buildings are found. Architecture is Johns lifelong passion. His weekly column, Big Old Houses, appears regularly on David Patrick Columbias New York Social Diary. John purchased and renovated half a dozen West Side brownstones during the real estate boom of the 1970s. He spends the working week at a pied a terre on East 63rd St in Manhattan, but home is Millbrook, NY, in a large historic house built by the founder of Union Carbide. Called Daheim, this house was occupied during the mid-1960s by the notorious Dr. Timothy Learys League for Spiritual Discovery. Johns widely read blog, and Big Old Houses, and which appears every Tuesday on David Patrick Columbias New York Social Diary, recently earned the Victorian Society of Americas award for and Best New Media of 2012. and John is an avid sportsman, an accomplished equestrian and a longtime squash player. Johns daughter, Jazzy, after earning a Masters degree in Special Education from Lehigh University, married a local Lehigh boy and settled down to teach special education in the Saucon Valley public school system.