Kreischer House

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Kreischer Mansion
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Location4500 Arthur Kill Rd., Staten Island, New York
Coordinates 40°31′57″N74°14′18″W / 40.53250°N 74.23833°W / 40.53250; -74.23833
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Builtca. 1885
Architectural style American Queen Anne
NRHP reference No. 82001199 [1]
NYCL No.0391
Significant dates
Added to NRHPOctober 29, 1982
Designated NYCLFebruary 20, 1968

Kreischer House, also known as Kreischer Mansion, is a historic home located at Charleston, Staten Island, New York City. Built by German 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's. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]

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History

On June 8, 1894, Edward B. Kreischer allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself in the right temple near his place of business, although murder is an ongoing theory. [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 Joseph "Joe Black" Young was revealed to be a hitman for the Bonanno crime family, more specifically serving under Bonanno Soldier Gino Galestro. [5] He was convicted of the murder of rival mob associate Robert McKelvey, committed three years earlier on the property. [5] [6] [7]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Lehto, Steve (February 3, 2015). American Murder Houses: A Coast-To-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide. Penguin. ISBN   9781101593011.
  3. ↑ "With a Bullett in His Skull". New York Tribune. New York. June 9, 1894. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  4. ↑ Schellmann, Hilke (October 24, 2012). "Spirits moving on S.I." The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
  5. 1 2 Sietsema, Robert (December 3, 2010). "Killmeyer's and the Kreischer Mansion: Meat and Murder in Staten Island". The Village Voice. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on April 4, 2019. Retrieved April 1, 2016.Note: This includes Anne B. Covell (September 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Kreischer House" (PDF). Retrieved April 1, 2016. and Accompanying three photographs
  7. ↑ Rashbaum, William K. (May 12, 2006). "Grisly Mob Killing at S.I. Mansion Is Detailed". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved April 9, 2016.


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