Flower Box Award for a Double-Wide
We can’t remember the exact address of this double-wide place on Willow Street but we thought it deserved a special mention for the flower boxes than adorn its parlor floor windows. We’ll see what the experts at Apartment Therapy think.
We can’t remember the exact address of this double-wide place on Willow Street but we thought it deserved a special mention for the flower boxes than adorn its parlor floor windows. We’ll see what the experts at Apartment Therapy think.
I am researching a fellow who supposedly lived in the house in 1863. not confirmed yet. His name was Joseph Annin, a lawyer. He was killed during the July 14, 1863 NYC draft riots. Joseph was at 2nd ave and about 22nd st in nyc. He saw the mob was about to lynch a 16 yr old black boy. Annin appealed to the crowd to stop it. they clubbed annin. then a fellow named Miller, from his apt window, shot Annin who died a few weeks later. the boy was hung. an account says that annin died at 70 willow street in brooklyn. a relative named robert forbes had retrieved annin from bellvue hospital.
does anyone know who owned the house in July or august 1863 ??
is brooklyn heights the same place as “brooklyn”
Glen Pierce gpierce9@comcast.net
whiting NJ
The Capote story starts with one of my favorite literary quotes of all time:
” I live in Brooklyn. By choice.”
I’m putting it on t-shirts.
Capote wrote a short story about this house, entitled A House on the Heights.
BTW, the window boxes were custom built for Mr. Smith; they were sold with the house after his death in 1994.
That is 70 Willow. But the house wasn’t owned by Arthur Miller…though I think he may have lived close by. 70 Willow was owned from the mid-50s through 1994 by 8-time Tony Award winning scenic designer Oliver Smith (My Fair Lady, Hello, Dolly!, West Side Story, Camelot, Sound of Music, Brigadoon, etc.), who for a time rented the downstairs floorthrough apartment to Truman Capote. At one point during Mr. Smith’s tenure there, Tyrone Guthrie was renting the top floor. Smith also co-produced American Ballet Theatre for 40 years, and designed many ballets choreographed by Jerome Robbins and Agnes DeMille (Fancy Free, Rodeo, Les Noces, Fall River Legend, etc.); he also designed the sets for the Broadway production of Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I believe there are also some photos of the interior of 70 Willow in Mr. Lockwood’s book.
I believe that’s 70 Willow. If it is, I think the house was once owned by Arthur Miller.
Is it a landscape designer/prof. gardener for hire? I need a lovely window box like that and would love to hire him. Do you mind posting his name?
They always have nice flowers. I know the guy who does them
…Breakfast at Tiffany’s written by Capote there!