The total-floor co-op contained in the Pulitzer Mansion (its namesake inset) is an actual prize.
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A full-floor residence within the Pulitzer Mansion has gone into contract.
The third-floor co-op — the most important and solely full-floor unit within the Gilded Age mansion at 11 E. 73rd St. — was asking $12 million.
Upkeep charges are $13,340 a month. The deal was first reported in Olshan Realty’s Olshan Luxurious Market Report.
Legendary architect Stanford White constructed the 79-foot mansion — 4 instances wider than many Massive Apple townhouses — for publishing mogul Joseph Pulitzer in 1903 at a then-cost of $369,000.
Pulitzer was writer of The St. Louis Publish-Dispatch and the New York World, which he purchased from financier Jay Gould.
Pulitzer — a Jewish immigrant from Budapest who was recruited to battle with the Union Military throughout the American Civil Battle — additionally led a marketing campaign to finish the financing wanted to maintain the Statue of Liberty in New York.
He additionally bequeathed funds to create the Columbia Journalism Faculty, which launched one 12 months after his dying, in 1912.
Pulitzer commissioned the development of the mansion following a hearth that killed two servants at his former residence, a 33-foot-wide mansion designed by McKim, Mead & White, at 10 E. fifty fifth St. in 1900.
His new residence was designed within the type of a Venetian palazzo. Its unique particulars, together with massive arched home windows, excessive ceilings and balustrade balconies, have been maintained even after the Pulitzer heirs transformed the limestone mansion into 17 rental flats in 1937.
They have been then transformed into co-ops — with no mortgage financing allowed — in 1952.
The third-story unit options two to a few bedrooms, 3½ marble loos, two woodburning fireplaces and a library. There are additionally 15-foot ceilings, French doorways and two balustrade balconies overlooking 73rd Road. The primary bed room additionally boasts its personal beautiful terrace.
The itemizing brokers are Douglas Elliman’s Richard McTighe and Genevieve Sonsino.
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