1 East 62nd St. 2B

Located in a stunning 1890 42 wide limestone mansion just off Fifth Avenue, this elegant 2 bedroom and 2 bathroom duplex home offers a dramatic living room with 19 ceilings, a wood burning fireplace and floor to ceiling windows. Originally built by the classical revivalist architect Horace Trumbauer for John Drexel, a grandson of the founder of Philadelphia banking house Drexel and Co, the house was divided into apartments in the 1930s and has included Ernest Hemingway as one of its residents. The layout includes an expansive and dramatic living room and dining room, 2 full kitchens, 2 bedrooms each with their own baths en suite and laundry. 1 East 62nd Street offers a full time doorman and is moments to Central Park and the shops and cafes of Madison Avenue.