An opulent relic from a bygone period has listed on the market.
Lower than a block from Central Park on the Higher East Facet, a 123-year-old limestone Beaux Arts manor is searching for a brand new proprietor — one with $65 million to spare, Robb Report first reported.
Constructed in 1901 for the financier and philanthropist Elias Aisel at 15 E. 63rd St., the Gilded Age stunner boasts a wealth of ornate authentic particulars, together with a winding marble staircase, a number of cartouches, sculptural motifs, intricate ceilings and wall moldings galore, plus loads of wooden paneling.
The closely ornamented townhouse was constructed by the late, nice architect John H. Duncan, greatest identified for designing Grant’s Tomb.
In all, the 25-foot-wide, 100-foot-deep house has 28 rooms — together with seven bedrooms, 12 full loos, 4 half loos, a library, a fitness center and a conservatory. There are additionally 14 fireplaces, three terraces (two of that are on the roof), two entrances and eight tales (two of that are underground) — unfold out over roughly 18,000 sq. toes.
As effectively, there’s a sitting room with dramatic double top ceilings that’s open to the ground above, arched home windows, a uniquely round eating room and herringbone flooring.
Along with Aisel, the property has additionally been house to Oleg Cassini, a designer to stars together with Joan Crawford and Jackie Kennedy, who handed away in 2006, aged 92.
The abode is at the moment being delivered to market by Cassini’s widow, Marianne, and Peggy Nestor, his sister-in-law, who share possession of the property, in accordance with Robb Report.
The residence is a “glistening survivor, one of many few remaining and most architecturally intact of its Gilded Age splendor on the Higher East Facet,” lots of which had been torn down within the Nineteen Twenties, states the itemizing, which is held by Louise C. Beit of Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty — East Facet Manhattan Brokerage,