1 West 123rd Street —- 31 Mt Morris Park West

Winner of the 2022 LUCY G. MOSES PRESERVATION Award

THE JOHN DWIGHT HOUSE - PAST IS PROLOGUE

NOW REDUCED BY NEARLY $1,000,000

Following the lead of McKim, Mead and White, this house was built in 1890 in the neo-Renaissance Revival style by architect Frank Hill Smith for John Dwight. It was erected during The Gilded Age (from one thousand eight hundred seventy-five to one thousand nine hundred or one thousand nine hundred ten), and financed by his baking soda empire, Arm and Hammer. This product dominated the market from one thousand eight hundred seventy-three onward and is still popular today. Frank Hill Smith was also a painter who collaborated with William Morris Hunt in the one thousand eight hundreds, 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
Approximate 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 < br >< br > Ground Floor < br > Approximate two thousand two hundred sixty Square Feet Interior , seven hundred ninety-five Square Feet Exterior < br /> Entry Hall< br /> Dining Room< br /> Powder Room< br /> Corridor< br/> Eat-In Kitchen< br/> Pantry< br/> Library< br/> Elevator< br/> Double-Door Entrance (Steel Door and Wooden Door)< comb-br />< comb-br />Parlor FloorApproximate two thousand one hundred sixty Square FeetLarge HallOval Reading Room + FireplaceCorridorBack RoomLibrary with SkylightElevatorDrawing Room + FireplaceThird Floor Approximate one thousand six hundred sixty-five Square Feet Interior , four hundred ninety-five Square Feet Exterior Large Hall Bedroom/Study + Fireplace Terrace Full Bathroom Oval Bedroom + Fireplace Elevator Dressing Room Fourth Floor Approximate one thousand six hundred sixty-five Square Feet Anteroom Bedroom/Study + Fireplace Dressing Room Full Bathroom Oval Bedroom + Fireplace Elevator Fifth Floor Approximate one thousand six hundred sixty-five Square Feet Skylight Room Kitchen and Laundry Room Dressing Room Full Bathroom Bedroom / Study + Fireplace Oval Bedroom Elevator Building: Twenty-Five FT Wide and Ninety-Two FT Depth Lot: Twenty-Five FT Wide and One Hundred FT 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 Basement approximately two thousand five hundred forty Gross Square Feet). The total Exterior space is approximately one thousand two hundred ninety Square Feet; this includes front outdoor spaceand terrace (the outdoor square footage is separate from interior GrossSquare Footage). THE FUTURE IS YOURS These owners have been loyal custodiansof restorationof interior design elementsand original floorplanofthis illustrious building.Now it will be thenext owner's opportunityto carry forward their own visionwithinthis remarkable property.