Kreischer House
NY location listed on National Register of Historic Places
Kreischer House, also known as Kreischer Mansion, is a historic home located in Charleston, Staten Island. 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, to his brother Charles. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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. (Reportedly, his wife had an affair with a doctor, Kreischer found out, and his wife was poisoning him with the doctor's help.) Since then, there have been claims that Kreischer has haunted the property. 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.
In 1998, the Kreischer Mansion was bought with the intention of restoration and eventual sale by Isaac Yomtovian.
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