Opossum Acres
270 Richmond Terrace | St. George | built 1923
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- 1921
Borden salesman Charles Schneider has William A. Eadie design a double house on Richmond Terrace
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Charles Schneider, who sold for the Borden Farm Products Company, bought this terraced lot in 1912 after the old Jones estate, later home to the Staten Island Club and the Westerleigh Collegiate Institute, was carved into building parcels. In 1921 he hired Staten Island builder-architect William A. Eadie to design a three-story frame double house in the Craftsman style, finished by 1923.
- 1953
Maritime artist John Noble moves in and names the house Opossum Acres
Marine painter and lithographer John Noble and his wife Susan moved to No. 270 in 1953, drawn by its views over the harbor, and he called it Opossum Acres for the thirty years he lived here. Noble, born in Paris in 1913, had first gone to sea at sixteen and became a member of the National Academy of Design in 1951. He added porthole windows, cut a porthole into the living room floor and raised a ship's mast in the backyard beside his collection of ship's wheels and compasses.
- 1983
After John Noble's death the house becomes a museum of his art
When John Noble died in 1983, his home at No. 270 was turned into a museum and archive for the John A. Noble Collection of his art and writings. A Staten Island ferry, the John A. Noble, was also named for the painter and displays some of his lithographs. In 1993 the collection moved to the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and the house went back to private use.
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