Townhouse Report Created: Sunday, August 28, 2022 - Listings Shown: 2
1.
2 East 82nd Street   (Click address for more details)
Listing #: 18719082
Price: $25,000,000
Floors: 6
Approx Sq Ft: 12,316
Sect: Upper East Side
Condition: Excellent
2 East 82nd Street is an ideal property for a single-family mansion conversion, with an impressive 25-foot-wide Neo-Georgian white limestone and brick facade mansion originally designed by Schickel & Ditmars in 1901. (Please see residential virtual renderings for inspiration purposes)

Located right off Fifth Avenue on a historical block, lined with some of the Upper East Side finest examples of turn of the century architecture, moments away from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park. Built on a 25-feet wide by 100-foot-deep lot and currently home to Marymount Lower Middle School of New York, this grand mansion measures approximate 12,300 sqft.

Originally built as a single-family mansion by architect Welch, Smith & Provot for W.W. and T.M. Hall, renowned New York City builders and developers of the period for socialite Albert Gould Jennings who lived in the house until 1940.The Marymount School of New York fully renovated this mansion in 2003 to its current configuration and housed The Kips Bay Showhouse in 1999 before its renovation.

The multi-year renovation and restoration was completed with interiors by Samuel G. White, great-grandson of the famous Stanford White and exterior restoration by Richard Ciccarelli of Walter B. Melvin Architects earning the Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award from with the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission.

This renovation restored beautiful architectural elements such as an impressive wood-paneled spaces replete with intricate carvings, coffered ceilings, plaster moldings, stain glassed windows, and impressive fireplace mantels throughout, it also added many desirable features for any end user that converts this mansion back to its single-family mansion usage, such as an oversized commercial grade elevator that services every floor (7 in total), an exterior lift for handicap access and oversized deliveries from the street level, a full catering grade kitchen at the cellar level with a commercial size dumbwaiter, two internal staircases, updated engineering systems throughout, and reinforced steel structures.

2.
40 West 11th Street   (Click address for more details)
Listing #: 21445857
Price: $10,800,000
Floors: 3
Approx Sq Ft: 5,264
Nghbd: Greenwich Village
Built in 1840, for sale for the first time in nearly 30 years, this 21' 8 wide Greek Revival townhome sits perfectly on one of the Gold Coast's most coveted tree-lined townhouse blocks. Flanked by picturesque townhomes on both sides, #40 offers four renovated stories plus a cellar set on a lot nearly 95' deep with a Southern facing garden. The location simply cannot be rivaled, as West 11th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues is one of the few Greenwich Village blocks to have retained its history and protected a contiguous line of 21 houses, avoiding high-rise development. Structurally sound, the house has been perfectly maintained since its renovation in 1993. Entering the home from atop a grand stoop, one is welcomed into a triple parlor with a two-story rear extension, offering enough space to house living, dining and kitchen. This parlor floor with 2 wood-burning fireplaces boasts 10' ceilings which have been dropped for central air and lighting but could be restored to their grander original height. There is ample storage and a gracious powder room. The sky-lit, well-appointed kitchen with radiant heated floors faces the Southern garden and opens out onto a generous rear deck which steps down to the lushly landscaped garden. The garden floor is comprised of a bedroom with en-suite bath, a den with woodburning fireplace, laundry room and a sunken gym/recreation space which also has access to the garden through sliding glass doors. The second floor is home to the primary suite with ample storage, two walk-in closets, a decorative mantle, en-suite bathroom and a private terrace overlooking the garden. A second bedroom completes the floor. Above, the sky-lit third floor offers another bedroom and bathroom along with a writer's studio which can be kept as is or converted into another bedroom. The cellar is dry and finished and used primarily for storage and mechanicals. The house runs on gas and offers 3 zones of central air. Inclusive of the cellar, the home measures in at 5,264 sq. ft. gross exterior wall- to exterior wall inclusive of Cellar. Also available as a combination with neighboring home 38 West 11th Street.
 
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