1 West 123rd Street —- 31 Mount Morris Park West Winner of the 2022 LUCY G. MOSES PRESERVATION Award THE JOHN DWIGHT HOUSE - PAST IS PROLOGUE NOW REDUCED BY NEARLY ONE MILLION DOLLARS Following the lead of McKim, Mead & White, this house was built in eighteen ninety in the neo-Renaissance Revival style by architect Frank Hill Smith for John Dwight. It was erected during The Gilded Age (from eighteen seventy-five to nineteen hundred or nineteen ten), and financed by his baking soda empire, Arm and Hammer. This product dominated the market from eighteen seventy-three onward and is still popular today. Frank Hill Smith was also a painter who collaborated with William Morris Hunt in the eighteen eighties, which may account for his preoccupation with interior design and color, which is reflected in the house we see today. AWARD WINNING HISTORIC RENOVATION During their decade long ownership, the present owners engaged the illustrious architect, Samuel G. White, the great grandson of Stanford White, to restore the interior design elements and original floor plan of this house. The mission of White's varied architectural practice is defined as "combining historic restoration and adaptive reuse with new designs and historic settings" and this house offered the perfect palette. Among many other projects, White has modernized Stanford White's Astor Court in Rhinebeck with a similar philosophy. Astor Court was originally built for John Jacob Astor IV and inspired by The Grand Trianon at Versailles. CORNER HOUSE WITH EXCEPTIONAL LIGHT As New York townhouses tend to be adjacent to each other facing north and south, finding a corner house with light on three sides is extremely rare. This house faces west, south and east, with sets of huge square windows and an amazing five corner rooms. The numerous windows on the long side of the house infuse the interior with an exceptional amount of light. Further adding to the abundant light are four oval rooms on the long side of the building also with huge sets of windows. In total, the house possesses fifty-two large windows, an extraordinary number. Few houses are so blessed with this amount of natural light. LAYOUT Basement Approximately two thousand five hundred forty square feet Four Storage Rooms Wine Cellar Gas/Meter Room Two Sidewalk Vaults Laundry Room Powder Room Meter Room Boiler Room Elevator/Mechanics Room Workshop/Storage Room Ground Floor Approximately two thousand two hundred sixty square feet Interior, seven hundred ninety-five square feet Exterior Entry Hall Dining Room Powder Room Corridor Eat-In Kitchen Pantry Library Elevator Double-Door Entrance (Steel Door and Wooden Door) Parlor Floor Approximately two thousand one hundred sixty square feet Large Hall Oval Reading Room plus Fireplace Corridor Back Room Library with Skylight Elevator Drawing Room plus Fireplace Third Floor Approximately one thousand six hundred sixty-five square feet Interior, four hundred ninety-five square feet Exterior Large Hall Bedroom/Study plus Fireplace Terrace Full Bathroom Oval Bedroom plus Fireplace Elevator Dressing Room Fourth Floor Approximately one thousand six hundred sixty-five square feet Anteroom Bedroom/Study plus Fireplace Dressing Room Full Bathroom Oval Bedroom plus Fireplace Elevator Fifth Floor Approximately one thousand six hundred sixty-five square feet Skylight Room Kitchen and Laundry Room Dressing Room Full Bathroom Bedroom / Study plus Fireplace Oval Bedroom Elevator Building: twenty-five foot Wide and ninety-two foot Depth Lot: twenty-five foot Wide and one hundred foot Depth Rooms: fifteen Bedrooms: six Full Bathrooms: three Powder Rooms: two Two Kitchens Two Laundry Rooms Two Sets of Staircases Elevator (Non-functional; can be restored) (Original mechanics) With a total Gross Interior Square Footage of Approximately eleven thousand nine hundred fifty-five (including the Basement of Approximately two thousand five hundred forty Gross Square Feet). The total Exterior space is approximately one thousand two hundred ninety Square Feet; this includes the front outdoor space and terrace (the outdoor square footage is separate from the interior Gross Square Footage). THE FUTURE IS YOURS These owners have been loyal custodians of the restoration of the interior design elements and original floorplan of this illustrious building. Now it will be the next owner's opportunity to carry forward their own vision within this remarkable property.