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Manhattan’s last intact Gilded Age mansion is up for sale — and it’ll only set you back $5. But you will have to get in line, because there are already six potential buyers champing at the bit to purchase the Fifth Avenue limestone town house, The Post has learned.
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The six- story Beaux Arts building, which once belonged to the granddaughter of the railroad baron Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, boasts two elevators, eight bathrooms and 3. Some of the balustrades are hand- carved from a single piece of white marble, and dreamy frescoes of angels and clouds adorn the ceilings of the parlor rooms.
The palatial white- marble staircase was patterned after Versailles. Scott Wintrow/Gamut Photos. The Upper East Side palace recalls the grandeur of Versailles, with its palatial, white- marble staircase, patterned after the Petit Trianon, reaching heavenward to an intricately detailed, gilded skylight. There is even a working stove from 1.
Grand Central Terminal — was completed for its first owner, R. Livingston Beeckman, a stockbroker and later governor of Rhode Island.“Everything is virtually intact,” said real- estate agent Tristan Harper, who listed the property on behalf of Douglas Elliman, and gave The Post an exclusive tour last week. Rockefeller and Jay Gould. Most were eventually razed or turned into museums. Many of the biggest homes were built as summer palaces in Long Island, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, while mansions in “town” formed a “Millionaire’s Row” on Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side.
The first Gilded Age mansion was the Astor family’s home, featuring a ballroom that could fit 4. Fifth Avenue and 3. Street. The family later moved to what was considered a more fashionable spot on Fifth at East 6.
Just a block away, at 8. Fifth Ave. The home, built for $6. George Grant Mason for $7. Manhattan” for a residential property at the time, according to press accounts.
Vanderbilt’s granddaughter Emily Thorn Vanderbilt Sloane White and her husband, Henry White, bought it in 1. Emily Vanderbilt Sloane White. It was said to be the first Manhattan residence to feature front- and- back electric elevators, and the children who lived there were told to use them sparingly because each ride cost 2. The Commodore’s granddaughter put her own stamp on the interior, adding such details as the multiple paired cherub “sculptural scenes” within the elaborate ceiling moldings in the dining room on the second floor. Each cherub pair is unique, and all are covered with gold leaf. When the heiress died in 1.
Republic of Yugoslavia for $3. The $1. 50,0. 00 loss on the sale price was due to the depressed postwar real- estate market and the fact that many of the furnishings had been sold separately at auction. Whoever buys it will own a piece of New York history. It now houses the offices of Serbia’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. Last week, after years of legal wrangling, Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia — the five countries that are the successor states to the former Communist republic — hammered out an agreement to sell the mansion and a sprawling Park Avenue co- op that used to be the UN ambassador’s residence. The 4,4. 00- square- foot duplex at 7. Park Ave., which has sat empty since the 1.
It features five terraces and three fireplaces and will list just under $2. Harper told The Post.
But any potential buyers will have to overcome an unusual diplomatic hurdle, as representatives from all five states must sign off on both sales. The proceeds will be divided among the states, Harper said. In addition to the New York properties, Yugoslavia’s successor states are also selling the former republic’s properties in Japan, Germany and Switzerland.