Hammer time: Armand's (inset) linked duo of downtown delights is up for grabs.
Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Photographs; Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty
For the primary time in 22 years, two linked West Village properties as soon as owned by Occidental Petroleum’s art-collecting and bed-hopping Armand Hammer has hit the market.
The Twenties, the properties — a carriage home and a bit of townhouse at 183-185 W. 4th St. are asking $7.5 million.
Hammer, aka “Lenin‘s chosen capitalist,” is best often called the great-grandfather of his namesake, Armie Hammer — the troubled Hollywood actor who was an A-lister till he was canceled for alleged brutality in opposition to ladies together with violent cannibalistic fantasies.
However wait, there’s extra.
Since Armie’s double life as a twisted abuser was uncovered, his father Michael has additionally been outed for proudly owning a 7-foot-high “intercourse throne” that features a creepy hook, cage and chair with a gap within the seat that he retains on the Armand Hammer Basis headquarters, in response to studies in Self-importance Honest and elsewhere.
Fortunately, these West Village townhomes don't have any horror rooms. The Nineteenth-century carriage home, at 185 W. 4th., was transformed right into a residence in 1917, in response to the Daytonian in Manhattan weblog.
By 1922, Annette Hoyt Flanders, who had served with the American Pink Cross in France throughout World Struggle I after which turned a panorama architect, moved in. Additionally in 1917, a one-floor artist’s studio with a mezzanine was constructed subsequent door at 183 W. 4th.
By 1962, Hammer purchased each constructions and transformed the properties, which by then had rental models, again right into a single residence.
“My understanding is that Armand Hammer was a colourful character and used it as his New York pied-à-terre,” stated itemizing dealer Debbie Korb, of Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty, whose previous shoppers have included Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick. “I believe he introduced girls right here. I don’t suppose he decked it out too grandly.”
The present proprietor are award-winning architects Anne Fairfax and her husband Richard Sammons. They purchased the property from Hammer in 2000.
“I first met them once they did Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s Charles Road townhouse,” Korb stated, including that the West 4th Road “city cottage” has been completely remodeled on the within. “It’s small however charming with a really English sensibility. It appears like one thing you’d see in London, off of King’s Highway.”
There’s two bedrooms, 2½ bogs, two fireplaces and a double-height front room for entertaining, together with a really English backyard — and high-end finishes all through.
Korb stresses that the properties, even linked, are small.
“It’s not a sensible home for a household. However it works properly for a pair, particularly when you prefer to entertain. The lounge has very excessive ceilings and it’s very grand and cheerful,” Korb stated.
She added that though it's on a busy avenue, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, the house boasts triple-paned home windows.
“From inside, you don’t know the place you might be. It’s heavenly.” Korb stated. “It’s like nothing you've got ever seen in New York. Once I noticed it, I wished to maneuver proper in.”
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