From Robb Report · Abby Montanez · · 1m 20s
A Village townhouse five years in the making
A 1830s Greek Revival on Waverly Place has been reinvented again, and it now wants $45 million.
In brief
A 1830s Greek Revival on Waverly Place has been reinvented again, and it now wants $45 million. This house has been rebuilt repeatedly, and each owner's reinvention is baked into the asking price. Originally reported by Robb Report.
Forty five million on Waverly
A Greenwich Village townhouse at 122 Waverly Place is back on the market asking $45 million, after a renovation that ran five years.
Built in the 1830s
The Greek Revival building dates to the 1830s, which puts it among the older survivors on a block that has changed around it for nearly two centuries.
Twenty two feet wide
The house measures 22 feet across. On a Manhattan street where most townhouses run narrower, that width is the whole argument for the price.
“The 22-foot-wide Greek Revival building on Waverly Place”
Bought for six million
Gerald Rosenfeld, the former head of investment banking at Lazard Freres, purchased it in 2005 for $6 million.
From apartments to one home
Rosenfeld converted the building from an apartment house back into a single-family residence, undoing decades of subdivision.
Renovation never really stops
Each owner has rewritten the place. The long run of renovation and reinvention is the house's actual story, and it is still going.
“The long history of renovations and reinvention of a Greenwich Village townhouse continues.”
What it means
This house has been rebuilt repeatedly, and each owner's reinvention is baked into the asking price.
