1020 Prince Street
Greg and Allison Ricketts
Many colorful personalities resided here prior to Greg and Allison Ricketts joining them as the latest owners of this home—and the couple cherishes their legacies. The living room chest belonged to a former congressman who was informed by FBI agents (in the Ricketts’s living room) that he was the target of a federal bribery investigation. Prior to the FBI kerfuffle, an army colonel ran a “private social club,” which is celebrated with a speakeasy room, complete with a bar set up to serve a cocktail on a moment’s notice, an homage to the lovable scofflaw.
The decor can be called “late” MacKenzie-Childs as Allison was smitten with the playful maximalist designs crafted in Aurora, NY, when she first saw this line of furniture. The crimson color of the couch, pinks of the tuffet, and silver-gray of the dining room chairs are shown off to advantage by the light from the Murano glass chandeliers.
The 1810 original house on this lot was a 1.5 story tenement house, basically a large room with a sleeping loft. It was subsequently enlarged as the different brickwork between the kitchen (lighter redbrick) and middle room (darker redbrick) suggests, culminating in the Federal-style front rooms built by Richard Stanton, a brickyard owner, who bought the property in 1823.