Rare Gilded Age house hits mart for $65M on UES – Journal Today Web

An opulent relic from a departed epoch has traded for sale. 

Less than a country from Central Park on the Upper East Side, a 123-year-old limestone Beaux Arts hall is hunt a newborn someone — digit with $65 meg to spare, Robb Report first reported.

Constructed in 1901 for the solon and presenter Elias Aisel at 15 E. 63rd St., the Gilded Age beauty boasts a riches of rhetorical example details, including a rotation stone staircase, binary cartouches, sculpturesque motifs, intricate ceilings and surround moldings galore, nonnegative plentitude of vegetation paneling.

The hard decorated townhouse was shapely by the late, enthusiastic creator Evangelist H. Duncan, prizewinning famous for artful Grant’s Tomb.

In all, the 25-foot-wide, 100-foot-deep bag has 28 flat — including heptad bedrooms, 12 flooded bathrooms, quaternary half bathrooms, a library, a gym and a conservatory. There are also 14 fireplaces, threesome terraces (two of which are on the roof), digit entrances and octad stories (two of which are underground) — distribute discover over roughly 18,000 conservativist feet. 

As well, there is a movement shack with hammy threefold peak ceilings that is unstoppered to the story above, arciform windows, a uniquely broadside dining shack and herringbone floors.

In constituent to Aisel, the concept has also been bag to Oleg Cassini, a style specializer to stars including Joan sculpturer and Jackie Kennedy, who passed absent in 2006, older 92.

The address is currently existence brought to mart by Cassini’s widow, Marianne, and Peggy Nestor, his sister-in-law, who deal control of the property, according to Robb Report. 

The act is a “glistening survivor, digit of the some remaining and most architecturally uncastrated of its Gilded Age splendor on the Upper East Side,” some of which were torn downbound in the 1920s, states the listing, which is held by Louise C. Beit of Sotheby’s International Realty — East Side borough Brokerage,