Features: - Grande Dame townhouse with two entrances (formal and service) - Prestigious Park Avenue and East 69th Street location - Elevator and a dumbwaiter - Triple exposures (East, North, South), five thousand two hundred square feet - Five stories, six bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms, six fireplaces - Grand staircase and oak flooring. - High ceilings with ornate paneling, silk wall coverings, custom moldings - Roof access, outdoor patio, over seven thousand three hundred square feet of additional buildable area - Restoration opportunity for a buyer with vision Grande Dame Living: - Presenting a study in elegance and beauty! - Imposing townhouse living that stands out for its design, style, and functionality. - Offered to a discerning owner with a vision to unlock its exceptional potential and restore its Gilded Age splendor. - A Grande Dame of the Gilded Age, built in 1881, this house is a study in architectural heritage, history, and provenance worth exploring. - Limestone and brick facade offering two private entrances, including a formal main entry and a service entrance. - A grand marble foyer leading to a majestic spiral staircase adorned with moldings. - Three exposures (East, North, South), combined with high ceilings add to the grand living feeling. - Five stories spanning approximately five thousand two hundred square feet, six bedrooms with five and a half bathrooms, all with high ceilings. - Private elevator servicing all floors; a kitchen designed for entertaining with custom oak cabinetry and a dumbwaiter. - Six unique & ornate marble fireplaces, oak flooring, and distinctive moldings throughout this imposing house. - Each room is uniquely designed showcasing Venetian handcrafted silk wall-coverings; an oak-paneled library; the red room; the green room; the mansard roof room enhanced by towering elegant windows. - Prestigious Park Avenue and East 69th Street address surrounded by Central Park; consulates; private clubs; and world-renowned museums defining a lifestyle narrative aspired by all; achieved by few. - One of the unique aspects of this house is the hidden tunnel (now covered) that connected to the Italian Embassy next door allowing spies in a bygone era to access the embassy surreptitiously. Additional features: Lot - eighteen point five zero feet x sixty-seven point nine two feet Building lot - eighteen point five zero feet x fifty-eight point thirty-three feet Stories - five Single Family Square feet - five thousand two hundred square feet Residential Floor Area Ratio - ten Current Floor Area Ratio - four point one four Buildable area - seven thousand three hundred sixty square feet