1795 photo of the Old House

[Joeytrom]

When Vicky first arrives in 1795, we are given a glimpse of the Old House as it was then.  It is all new and pink colored with flowers and in the daytime. 

was this the way that house actually looked or did they doctor the photo to make it look that way?

[MagnusTrask]

I'm sure that just photographing it in the daytime did wonders by itself.

[Cousin_Barnabas]

Yeah, I don't think we ever got to see the house in the day for most of the rest of the run - unless I am forgetting something here.  (I believe there were a couple of times when they showed the ''1795'' images in the present.)  Other than that, unless I am drawing a blank, all of the other stills were either at sunset or at night.   

The house was beautiful.  It should have been rebuilt. 

[michael c]

when i first watched this storyline and saw the first images of the old house i was like "pink? really?". it seemed a strange color to choose and i'm not sure how historically accurate it was.

i was always disappointed with how the set looked when the story returned to the present. before 1795 the old house drawing room was a wonderfully aged,rich looking brown. but when they try and make it look "old" again after the bright pink 1795 era it never looks right again.

[MagnusTrask]

I know what you mean about the 1795 color staying after 1795, though it does give you a feeling of connection with 1795, as if all that really happened in the same present-day room.   That color's more "salmon" or something though, and it does seem of the time to me, not that I'm close to being an expert.   Actual pink would definitely have been over the top.

[Julia99]

this site has been posted on the Forum before--it gives very nice photos of the house, it had been vacant for nearly a decade when Curtis filmed it for the show.  White not pink.

http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/yasinsac/spratt/spratt.html

Today its hard to imagine this fine residence in the overgrown woods that are there now--