According to the author of the Hatching Cat blog (THE HATCHING CAT :True and Unusual Animal Tales of Old New York) the cat was "the [Austen] family cat" and named Tristan because Alice liked Wagner's opera.
Alice Austen "grew up in the Austen family’s 17th-century farmhouse in Rosebank, Staten Island." The blog we reference is as much about urban and real estate history as it is pets. Here is the house ---
located at 2 Hylan Boulevard in the Rosebank section of Staten Island, reportedly so named for the abundance of rose bushes and its location on the shore. ....
No one is exactly sure what year the house was built. However, a nearby house, located just over the hills from the Austen house, was torn down in 1895, revealing a cornerstone dated 1644 (the Austens put the cornerstone on their porch).
Below is a photograph of the artist and the house shortly before her death. The setting is Alice's return visit from a nursing home, as part of the layout for a 1951 Life magazine article, a writeup about Alice Austen's artistic accomplishments.
located at 2 Hylan Boulevard in the Rosebank section of Staten Island, reportedly so named for the abundance of rose bushes and its location on the shore. ....
No one is exactly sure what year the house was built. However, a nearby house, located just over the hills from the Austen house, was torn down in 1895, revealing a cornerstone dated 1644 (the Austens put the cornerstone on their porch).
Below is a photograph of the artist and the house shortly before her death. The setting is Alice's return visit from a nursing home, as part of the layout for a 1951 Life magazine article, a writeup about Alice Austen's artistic accomplishments.
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