Manhattan’s oldest home, a 1795 East Village house built by the Stuyvesant family, asks $8.9M
Photo credit: MW Studio for The Corcoran Group
Old house lovers will want to note this sale: Manhattan’s oldest home, built in 1795 for Nicholas Stuyvesant, a great great grandson of city founder Peter Stuyvesant, is on the market for $8,900,000. The East Village townhouse at 44 Stuyvesant Street in the St. Marks Place Historic District has retained most of its original layout, according to Mansion Global. The 5,500-square-foot, 24-foot-wide home is the oldest building in Manhattan that has been used continuously as a single-family dwelling.
With the exception of a charming updated kitchen, the home hasn’t been modernized and its historic proportions are gracious, with 11-foot ceilings and eight fireplaces. In addition to its old-house bragging rights, highlights include a top-floor atelier with a massive steel-framed skylight and a magical private garden.
On the garden floor, find the kitchen and dining room. Historically the entire area would have served as the kitchen, anchored by the hearth. The home’s mechanicals, laundry, a full bath, and a breakfast room are on this level as well as entry to the home’s paved and landscaped garden.
On the next floor are the home’s front and rear parlor living rooms. The large formal rooms are framed by intact flooring and fireplaces as well as plaster ceiling moldings.
On the next two floors are four bedrooms, several charming bathrooms, and plenty of sunlight. The bedrooms are both spacious and cozy, blessed with original fireplaces and lots of large closets. There’s a separate study as well.
On the home’s top floor is a magical loft-like studio, with a skylight and 12.5-foot ceilings. Also on this floor is another bedroom and a full bath.
The home, officially on the market for the first time, has the real historic appeal claimed by many, but truly held by few. Its potential as a family home is endless, and it’s in a neighborhood that isn’t often associated with the oldest version of New York City, though the Stuyvesant name can be seen at almost every turn.
The townhouse has not remained in the hands of the Stuyvesant family for its entire history. It has traded hands a few times but as an inheritance or a private transaction. The property last changed hands within the current owner’s family in 2014.
[Listing info: 44 Stuyvesant Street at CityRealty]
[Listed at The Corcoran Group by Monica Rittersporn]
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Photo credit: MW Studio for The Corcoran Group
