$29,500,000
SOLD

AS OF ABOUT 4 YEARS AGO

132 East 65th Street #HOUSE in Lenox Hill

The baronial manor aesthetic is reborn in a modern accessible manor house in Manhattan called Crocodile Hall. Its resplendent public rooms have the scale of the British literary gentleman's clubs founded in London in the 1700-1800s, with sweeping staircases, carved ornamental woodwork, mosaic tiling, high wainscoting, sumptuous fireplaces, and soaring windows and ceiling heights.

HISTORY
Having been originally built in the early 1920s by architect J. Stewart Barney of the then renowned architectural firm Barney and Chapman as his own residence and design atelier. This structure was initially designed to house both a family and a creative enterprise as Barney was also a painter and a writer. A graduate of Columbia University in 1890, John Stuart Barney also studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and was designated as the State Architect for New York in 1913. The buildings he des... [more]

The baronial manor aesthetic is reborn in a modern accessible manor house in Manhattan called Crocodile Hall. Its resplendent public rooms have the scale of the British literary gentleman's clubs founded in London in the 1700-1800s, with sweeping staircases, carved ornamental woodwork, mosaic tiling, high wainscoting, sumptuous fireplaces, and soaring windows and ceiling heights.

HISTORY
Having been originally built in the early 1920s by architect J. Stewart Barney of the then renowned architectural firm Barney and Chapman as his own residence and design atelier. This structure was initially designed to house both a family and a creative enterprise as Barney was also a painter and a writer. A graduate of Columbia University in 1890, John Stuart Barney also studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and was designated as the State Architect for New York in 1913. The buildings he designed include the Broadway Tabernacle, the Church of the Holy Trinity, the Hotel Navarre, and the Hart Memorial Library in Troy, New York. He became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1894.

THE RESIDENCE
Comprising approximately 12,000 square feet, spectacular original detail remains throughout the building in such rooms as the double-height living room with soaring windows, the mahogany paneled formal dining room, the opulent oak paneled library or "Buffalo Room" as well as in the curved grand stair hall. There are 7 bedrooms, 6 baths, 3 powder rooms, 7 ornate fireplaces, a wine cellar and 2 kitchens. An elegant roof garden and additional rear terrace off the master suite afford a unique blend of privacy and opulence.
The entry is positioned on East 65th Street within the 80' long facade, and this corner building is surrounded by a wrought iron fence.

MIXED-USE POSSIBILITY
Located outside the Landmark district, this building can be used residentially and commercially or a combination thereof. Its present approxima