The Marble House Nyc Sold

Alberts may 26 2015.
The marble house nyc sold. Marble house is a gilded age mansion in newport rhode island designed as a summer cottage for alva and william kissam vanderbilt by the society architect richard morris hunt it was unparalleled in opulence for an american house when it was completed in 1892. New york s iconic pumpkin house went through a rough patch but after three long years it has finally sold. Grade a rift and quarter sawn wide plank white oak floors laid in a chic chevron pattern stunning in their simplicity. The marble house the eccentric and extravagant tribeca triplex that embodies one man s ode to all of the design possibilities inherent in marble especially the carrara variant sold for 9 466 099 64 and was the most expensive sale of the week according to city records.
Decadent imported carrara striato olimpico grey bardiglio and crema valencia marbles from slabs hand selected by parr himself. After his death she reopened marble house and had a chinese tea house built on the seaside cliffs where she hosted rallies for women s right to vote. Custom designed plaster crown moldings. The buyer of this 80 foot wide home the designer and occasional producer stuart parr 8 mile and get rich or die tryin personally selected the slabs of italian marble displayed in the ho.
The stunning hudson heights home perched perilously on a cliff overlooking the hudson. Its temple front portico resembles that of the white house. She sold the house to frederick h. In 2006 marble house was designated a national historic landmark.
His group couldn t go upstairs the guide said because a. The preservation society acquired the house in 1963 from the prince estate. Marble house with private pool returns to ask ambitious 19m curbed tribeca s marble house now asking only 15 75 million curbed tribeca s marble house returns for lowest price yet. In 1989 seven years after burke bought seguine he went on a tour of marble house a historic vanderbilt house in rhode island.
New york s chrysler building sells for much less than it was purchased for a decade ago this week the iconic building sold for 150 million a fraction of the 800 million it was purchased for. The marble house 60 collister street new york ny. Tribeca s famed marble house with pool now 65 000 month.