Photographer Terry Richardson is offloading a transformed firehouse in Manhattan's Soho for a fairly penny.
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Disgraced trend photographer Terry Richardson — accused of sexual assault, harassment and exploitation by a number of younger fashions over the a long time — has offered his house, “the Firehouse in Soho,” on Lafayette Road for about $5.5 million, sources inform Gimme Shelter.
The 20-foot-wide, 2,800-square-foot landmarked and renovated firehouse comes with a hanging hearth engine-red lacquered spiral staircase.
The three-story house was inbuilt 1887 for FDNY Engine Firm No. 55. The brick exterior options terracotta rosettes and a stone cornice, flanked by cast-iron pillars topped with none-too-subtle flame accents.
Inside, the residence options one bed room and two loos.
Richardson, identified for his usually “hyper-sexualized” advert campaigns for designers like Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford and Yves Saint Laurent, is the son of the late, profitable — however troubled — trend photographer Bob Richardson.
In 2017, Condé Nast axed the youthful Richardson, following sexual assault and harassment accusations.
On the time, he stated in a press release offered by a rep: “He's an artist who has been identified for his sexually specific work, so a lot of his skilled interactions with topics have been sexual and specific in nature, however the entire topics of his work participated consensually.”
Richardson purchased this property for $3.33 million in 2009, based on metropolis property information.
It was final available on the market as a rental asking $25,000 a month, which dropped to $17,500 a month, again in 2019.
Richardson couldn't be reached at press time. The present sale, we hear, is an off-market deal by way of dealer Nick Gavin of Compass, who declined remark.
Particulars embrace 13- to 15-foot-high beamed ceilings and a roof terrace with an out of doors bathe.
Inside, the fashionable inside options wide-plank oak flooring and an open dwelling house together with a chef’s kitchen.
A full-floor important bed room suite boasts 14-foot beamed ceilings, and a spa-like rest room with a clawfoot tub and a windowed steam bathe, whereas the bottom ground can function a studio, a storage, a industrial house or secondary entertaining space — with floor-to-ceiling customized built-in bookshelves, poured concrete flooring and paneled double bay doorways.
The firehouse was constructed by Napoleon LeBrun, who created 40 firehouses between 1889 and 1895, together with this one, notes a former itemizing. It served the neighborhood for nearly 100 years till 1982; town saved it as “sleeping quarters” for its deputy hearth chief, Thomas R. Langford.
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