Show historic house a factory apparatus for the manufacture of insecticide soon will be installed in the old billop house at Tott tottenville envIlle headquarters of general howe during the british occupation of staten island in 1770 and since then a place of historic interest announcement of the sale of the property was made yesterday and with it came the news that the old house will be converted into a factory all efforts to have the state purchase the house and preserve it and its dungeon and secret underground passageway as relics of tile war for independence were unsuccessful new york times |