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	Collyer brothers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The brothers are often cited as a paradigmatic example of compulsive hoarding associated with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or OCD, as well as disposophobia, or Collyer Brothers Syndrome, a fear of throwing anything away.
		The Collyer brothers were sons of Herman Livingston Collyer (1857–1923), a Manhattan gynecologist, and Susie Gage Frost (1856–1929); the Collyer family traced its roots to the Mayflower in the 17th century.
		The Collyer brothers were first mentioned in the newspapers in 1938, when they rebuffed a real estate agent who had been eyeing the house.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Collyer_brothers (2464 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Collyer brothers
		The Collyer brothers were sons of Herman Livingston Collyer (1857-1923), a Manhattan gynecologist, and Susie Gage Frost (1856-1929).
		The Collyer brothers were first mentioned in the newspapers when they got in trouble with the bank in 1942 after they refused to pay the mortgage on their house.
		The brothers didn't make the news again until March 21, 1947, when an anonymous caller phoned to 122nd police precinct and insisted there was a dead body in the house.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Collyer_brothers (1086 words)

	OCF's Hoarding Web Site: Langley Collyer: The Mystery Hoarder Of Harlem
		Their father, Dr. Herman L. Collyer was a successful and renowned gynecologist, and his father, William Collyer, was said to have been one of the leading shipbuilders in America.
		The Collyers again appeared in the newspapers in April 1939, when, armed with a court order, a city marshal together with representatives of the Consolidated Edison Company entered the brother's two fifth avenue buildings and removed the gas meters, which had been in a state of disuse since 1928.
		A relative of the brothers, William Collyer of Yonkers, turned up at the house that day, relating to reporters that his mother and sister had visited the brothers in 1928, and noted that the house, at that time, contained no furniture, but was already filled with quite a bit of debris.
	www.ocfoundation.org /1005/m140a_001.htm (9011 words)

	Collyer, KS
		The Plat of Collyer was filed with the Register of Deeds in Hays on February 11, 1879.
		The "Colony House" was erected by a Col.
		Collyer was incorporated as a City in 1917.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/genweb/trego/collyer.html (2043 words)

	Charlie Lewis \| Playlist \| 30 April 2001 \| Collyer 2
		The Collyer brothers were born into the very best of circumstances.
		The Collyer brothers, as a result, retreated deeper and deeper into seclusion from the rest of the world.
		Langley Collyer started screaming at the workers and the police had to be called in.
	www.wfmu.org /Playlists/Charlie/char.010430collyer2.html (1465 words)

	Roundabout Theatre Company - Front & Center Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Homer Collyer was born in 1881 and his brother Langley six years later in 1887.
		The brothers grew up in Murray Hill but later moved with their family to a three-story mansion filled with tasteful antiques and oil paintings on 128th Street in Harlem, an affluent suburb in 1909.
		Collyer’s hope chests; tapestries and hundreds of yards of unused silks and fabric; stockpiles of guns, ammunition, bayonets and sabers; 14 pianos (grand and upright), banjos, violins, organs, bugles, and accordions; a gramophone and records; chandeliers; clocks; plaster busts; bikes, bowling balls, and camera equipment.
	www.roundabouttheatre.org /fc/winter02/dazzle1.htm (1159 words)

	New York Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dr. Herman Livingston Collyer, a successful gynecologist, his wife Susie and their sons Homer and Langley moved from Murray Hill to 2078 5th Ave., at 128 St., in 1909.
		By 1917, the Collyers’ telephone had been disconnected because, as Langley explained, they were "being billed for long distance calls they didn’t make." In 1928, the gas was shut off.
		Collyer’s hope chests, jammed with unused piece goods, silks, wool, damask and brocade; three bolts of embroidered white curtain material, each containing 54 yards, that had never been unwrapped; and a batch of fine linen dish towels, stamped "Collyer," that had never been used.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=397 (1634 words)

	Collyer brothers (game designers) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paul Collyer and Oliver Collyer are two English computer game designers and programmers.
		The Collyer brothers often inserted themselves into their own games, as below average players, not good enough to play for even the worst teams.
		The brothers are avid supporters of Everton F.C. This biographical article relating to a computer or video game specialist is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Collyer_brothers_(game_designers) (136 words)

	Gothamist: Collyer Bros.: Pack Rats to End All Pack Rats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Two educated brothers, Homer and Langley Collyer, lived in Harlem at the beginning of the 1900s and soon their house would have 180 tons of garbage, much of it newspapers, in it.
		The Collyer Brothers were a favorite true urban legend for young Franz: "To my 7-year-old ears, the cruel twist was deliciously gruesome: Homer and Langley had been killed by the very bulwarks they had raised to keep the world out of their lives.
		Now Lidz has written about them, in Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders, An Urban Historical (the brothers were called 'ghosty men' by their neighbors as their reclusive habits emerged).
	www.gothamist.com /archives/2003/10/28/collyer_bros_pack_rats_to_end_all_pack_rats.php (662 words)

	washingtonpost.com: In Brief Pack Rats
		The title characters in this true story are the creepy Collyer brothers, early 20th-century hermits who ensconced themselves in their Harlem brownstone among more than 120 tons of trash.
		The Collyers came from an old New York family and both were educated at Columbia University -- Langley in engineering, Homer in law.
		The Collyers kept the world at bay, until one day in 1938 a reporter for the New York World-Telegram heard the irresistible tale of the two Victorian holdovers.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A46535-2003Dec31?language=printer (338 words)

	South Coast Repertory Play Insights - 'The Dazzle'
		The complex daily routine of the Collyer brothers is disrupted by the presence of the charming and assertive young woman.
		Homer Collyer and his brother Langley grew up just before the gas chandelier, the camisole and the Prince Albert coat vanished from the American scene.
		The legend of the Collyer brothers drew a crowd of several thousand persons yesterday to the recluses' decaying brownstone house at 2078 Fifth Avenue.
	www.scr.org /season/01-02season/snl/dazzlesnl.html (2377 words)

	The Dazzle , a CurtainUp review
		Their father, Dr. Herman L. Collyer, was a prominent Manhattan gynecologist and their mother was a well-educated woman, with a particular bent for music (which may have inspired Richard Greenberg to make Langley a concert pianist).
		In 1942 the Collyer name was in the headlines for the first time when the Bowery Savings bank initiated eviction procedures because the mortgage on the house was in default.
		The Collyer brothers remained in their shadowy world until 1947 when an anonymous phone call about a dead man at 2078 Fifth Avenue brought a crew of rescue workers to the old mansion.
	www.curtainup.com /dazzle.html (2261 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: For The Dazzle's Challenging Tale of Alienation, Rep Stage Makes it all Come Together
		The first corpse, Langley Collyer, was buried alive by his own collection of clutter, suffocated when he tripped one of dozens of booby traps designed to thwart invaders.
		The Collyer brothers and their legendary disposophobia (that's the clinical term for compulsive hoarding, also known as Collyer Brothers Syndrome) are the subject of Richard Greenberg's 2002 play The Dazzle, which receives its area premiere this month at Howard Community College's Rep Stage.
		The Collyers return home from one of Langley's piano recitals--Richard Montgomery's parlor set is a sumptuously perfect mix of bric-a-brac and shabby gentility--trailed by Milly (Cheryl Resor), a rich socialite who's hot for Langley.
	www.citypaper.com /music/story.asp?id=4205 (928 words)

	Boise Weekly - Not Your Everyday Newspaper: Arts: Stage: Mansion of Trash
		The brothers fascinate her, and she does her best to entice them with her considerable charms, but her daring scene (for that era) with partial nudity does little more than distract the audience.
		This is when the brothers' strangeness becomes eerily apparent, and Matthew Clark's brilliant and complex portrayal of Langley shows his internal struggles as he tries to interact with this lovely woman.
		Ness skillfully communicates his sense of responsibility for his younger brother and the frustration he feels over the lack of action and direction in their lives.
	www.boiseweekly.com /gyrobase/PrintFriendly?oid=141 (699 words)

	The New York Inquirer: Waste
		This is Collyer Brothers Park, which takes its name from the two reclusive brothers, sons of Manhattan gentry, who in 1947 were discovered dead in their three-story brownstone under 100 tons of their own garbage.
		Homer and Langley Collyer were written about in medical journals and even had a disease (Collyer Brothers Syndrome) named in their honor to account for this neurotic inability to dispose of things.
		In Homer and Langley Collyer’s stubborn refusal to leave Harlem, even when most white residents had fled to the suburbs, one might be tempted to tease out a metaphor for the neighborhood now and its continued resistance to gentrification.
	www.nyinquirer.com /nyinquirer/waste/index.html (2299 words)

	Barrington Stage Company's production of The Collyer Brothers at Home, reviewed on newberkshire.com, the ...
		Brian Smiar, Homer Collyer, projects the image of strong personality, demanding as he copes with his blindness and his inability to move around, locked in his wheelchair, unable to communicate with others outside the family home.
		Another reversion to childhood comes when the two brothers mimic the Wright brothers trying to get an airplane off the ground, Homer in the wheelchair/airplane, goggles on, Langley pushing him amidst the clutter, separated by the tight alleys used to move around.
		The brothers rehash childhood experiences, the split of their parents the death of Homer’s pet bird.
	www.newberkshire.com /barrington_stage_company/collyer_brothers.php (739 words)

	The Paper Chase
		The Collyer brothers' saga confirms a New Yorker's worst nightmare: crumpled people living in crumpled rooms with their crumpled possessions, the crowded chaos of the city refracted in their homes.
		The brothers had moved to Harlem in 1909 when they were in their 20's and the neighborhood was a fashionable, and white, suburb of Manhattan.
		I was so horrified by the Collyer brothers' story, combined with the lifestyles of a couple of Collyer-ish friends, that I've become so averse to paper that I don't even bring the newspaper in the house any more.
	209.157.64.200 /focus/f-news/1008564/posts (2703 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Theater - Lethal Junk
		Thus the enduring and spooky fascination of the Collyer brothers, who from the turn of the century to the late '40s filled their Harlem home with towers of junk, from the chasses of cars to baby grand pianos and tons of newspapers.
		Decades have passed and the brothers, one blind, the other an obsessive compulsive maniac, are surrounded by piles of trash, sleepwalking through a world of ritualized paranoia and deadening repetition.
		The brothers are not likeable characters who change for the better; they are intriguing monsters who exaggerate our human compulsion to rationalize what we hoard.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2004/49606_20040130.asp (622 words)

	PyroManiac: Monday Menagerie IV
		No one ever learned why the brothers were stockpiling their pathetic treasure, except an old friend of the family recalled that Langley once said he was saving newspapers so Homer could catch up on his reading if he ever regained his sight.
		Although the Collyers' inheritance was sufficient for all their needs, they lived their lives in unnecessary, self-imposed deprivation.
		We had a foster brother in our home for a year or two, who could've enjoyed all the benefits of the other siblings, but he chose instead to sit on his bedroom floor and play with puzzles.
	phillipjohnson.blogspot.com /2005/06/monday-menagerie-iv.html (1798 words)

	Gothamist: A "Collyer Mansion" Situation
		They are called "Collyer Mansions" after the infamous Collyer brothers and their Fifth Avenue home.
		As for the Collyer brothers, they lived at the turn of the 20th century.
		The author alternate between chapters about the Collyer brothers and about a relative of his with a hoarding problem, and he has little insight about either topic.
	www.gothamist.com /archives/2006/07/05/collyer_situati.php (772 words)

	Collyer brothers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Homer Collyer (1881-1947) and Langley Collyer (1885-1947) were two US brothers that became famous because of their reclusive and hoarding lifestyle.
		The Collyer brothers were sons of gynecologist Herman L. Collyer and Susie Gage Frost Collyer.
		Herman Collyer left his family and the house 1909.
	www.mywiseowl.com /articles/Collyer_brothers (689 words)

	The Collyer Brothers
		Homer Collyer Dies Amid Junk, Brother Langley Can't Be Found is an excellent story with many excerpts from an earlier interview with Langley.
		There actually were two brothers that were more eccentric than you could ever hope to be.
		The two brothers that we are talking about were born into the very best of circumstances.
	earthdude1.tripod.com /collyer/collyer.html (1869 words)

	DeLorenzo's Dugout - Club House
		When he finally emerged from the funereal dust, he proved to be a courtly old gentleman, descended from aristocrats who had lived in the Hudson Valley for 300 years; he had a Columbia education; he had once taught Sunday school at Trinity Church downtown; his father had been a Bellevue physician.
		During the William Howard Taft administration, he and his brother Homer had moved from Murray Hill to Harlem and shut themselves off from the rest of the world.
		And little more was heard of the Collyer brothers until Saturday the 22nd of March 1947.
	www.delorenzosdugout.com /collyer.htm (830 words)

	Squalor Survivors - Stories - Famous squalorees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Collyer brothers and Mr Trebus achieved fame for their squalor.
		She quickly gathered a number of suitors, and eventually married Benjamin Wood, the congressman brother of Mayor Fernando Wood and publisher of the New York Daily News, the highest-circulating daily newspaper in the US.
		It must be said that Benjamin was not the ideal husband, having affairs and even fathering a daughter, Emma, by another woman, who he and Ida raised as their own.
	www.squalorsurvivors.com /stories/famous.shtml (1894 words)

	Clutter a CurtainUp Los Angelesreview
		Saltzman attempts to find his way through the accumulated clutter of the lives of the Collyer brothers by scrutinizing the relationship of the Dolan brothers.
		Their scenes are included in the ongoing investigation into the death of Homer Collyer, who was found in his mansion after a mysterious phone tip.
		Brother Langley is missing and is the prime suspect.
	www.curtainup.com /clutter.html (865 words)

	Space: the final frontier - City Desk National Review - Find Articles
		Moore was everywhere compared to Langley and Homer Collyer, brothers who were found trapped in their East Harlem brownstone in March 1947, amidst tons of junk including 14 grand pianos and an automobile chassis.
		The Collyer brothers were not okay: Langley had died in a booby trap he had set for burglars; blind and bedridden Homer had starved to death.
		The Collyer brothers weren't into belly buttons; their personal border control took the form of stacked newspapers and rotting groceries.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_1_56/ai_112493425 (998 words)

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