Housesitter Housesitter Housesitter is a 1992 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Oz, written by Mark Stein, and starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. The premise involves a woman with con-artist tendencies who worms her way into the life of a reserved architect by claiming to be his wife. Newton Davis (Steve Martin) is a struggling architect. After building his dream house for himself and his longtime girlfriend Becky (Dana Delany) in his hometown, he is crushed when she refuses to marry him. He is unable to bring himself to live in the house, and leaves it abandoned and with
George Goldie (architect) George Goldie (architect) George Goldie (9 June 1828 – 1 March 1887) was a nineteenth-century English ecclesiastical architect who specialised in Roman Catholic churches. Goldie was born in York, the grandson of the architect Joseph Bonomi the Elder. He was educated at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, County Durham. He trained as an architect with John Grey Weightman and Matthew Ellison Hadfield of Sheffield, from 1845 to 1850, and thereafter worked in partnership with them. After Weightman left the partnership in 1858, Hadfield and Goldie remained in partnership for a further two years. Goldie then practised alone until 1867 when Charles