From Robb Report · Mark David · · 1m 30s
The Lenox Hill Townhouse Tastemakers Kept Choosing
One narrow Upper East Side house collected Billy Baldwin, Woody Allen, and Geoffrey Bradfield, and now it wants $15 million.
In brief
One narrow Upper East Side house collected Billy Baldwin, Woody Allen, and Geoffrey Bradfield, and now it wants $15 million. 116 East 61st Street is less a listing than a century-long address book of the people who shaped American taste. Originally reported by Robb Report.
One address, many legends
Some houses keep pulling in the same kind of person. A single townhouse on East 61st Street became a repeat address for the tastemakers who defined 20th century style.
“Birds of a feather tend to gravitate toward the same places”
Built in 1899, then split
The Lenox Hill residence went up as a single-family house at the end of the 19th century. It was later carved into apartments, which is how so many tenants passed through it.
Billy Baldwin moved in
In the 1960s the decorator Billy Baldwin made the building his home, the first of the design world names attached to the address.
Haslam upstairs, Allen above
English decorator and bon vivant Nicky Haslam reportedly lived there with banking heir Jimmy Davison. A young Woody Allen occupied the upper portion.
Bradfield's home and office
Geoffrey Bradfield took the townhouse in 1978 and made it both residence and headquarters, working there for decades while hosting his celebrity and society clients.
Now asking $15 million
The house is on the market through Sotheby's International Realty at $15 million, with a guest list of former residents no renovation could replicate.
The essence
116 East 61st Street is less a listing than a century-long address book of the people who shaped American taste.
