Alice Austen House, Rosebank, Staten Island, New York
The original Dutch one-room farmhouse was built in the 1690s and expanded around 1725 and again around 1750. John Haggerty Austen purchased the farmhouse as a summer home in 1844. His wife dubbed it Clear Comfort. Austen gradually remodeled the house into a Carpenter Gothic cottage. In 1852, the family relocated permanently here from Manhattan. Austen’s granddaughter Alice (1866–1952) moved here with her mother in the late 1860s. Alice continued to live here with her partner, Gertrude Tate, from 1917 until 1945. Unusual for a woman at the time, Alice took up photography and was one of the first women photographers to work primarily out of doors rather than in a studio. The house opened as a museum in 1985. It is an official New York City landmark.
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Location: 2 Hyland Blvd, Rosebank, Staten Island, New York,
Photo credit: © Matthew Kiernan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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