You understand you’re wealthy when your own home has a reputation.

Manhattan’s palatial Benjamin N. Duke Home is in the marketplace, providing home hunters a uncommon likelihood to personal a bit of New York historical past. If they’ll cough up tens of tens of millions of {dollars}, that’s.

Positioned at 1009 Fifth Ave. in Manhattan’s Higher East Facet, the Duke Home is described as “one of many final remnants of the luxurious mansions alongside Fifth Avenue dealing with Central Park that stay in non-public arms.”

This stretch of Fifth Ave. was often known as Millionaire’s Row across the flip of the century, although you may have to be nearer to a billionaire to afford dwelling there now. New York Metropolis royalty, together with the Vanderbilts and the Astors, constructed their household residences right here and the road stays an iconic hub for museums, buying and leisure.

The Duke Home was constructed from 1899-1901 and the property covers 20,000 sq. toes over eight flooring. It was designed within the “Italian Renaissance palazzo type with sturdy Beaux Arts parts,” based on the itemizing. With 25 rooms, together with eight beds and 10 bogs, this spacious townhouse is very large by Manhattan requirements.

And the asking value displays that, coming in at a whopping US$80 million. The property tax alone is $23,000 monthly.

In 2015, the house was listed for a similar value and broke a report on the time for the priciest townhouse on the market in New York Metropolis — however it by no means bought. Now it’s on sale once more, and whereas it’s not the recordholder for costliest itemizing, if it sells for the asking value of $80 million, it stands to be the most costly townhouse ever bought in Manhattan.

The limestone and red-brick manor spans 27 toes alongside Fifth Ave. and 100 toes alongside 82nd Avenue. Its grand rooms boast excessive ceilings, ornate mouldings and enormous home windows via which observers can take within the entrance steps of the well-known Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, proper throughout the road.

A grand staircase climbs 5 flooring to the higher flooring of the residence, the place a terrace and rooftop present “breathtaking views of Central Park and the town skyline,” the itemizing reads. The house can be adorned with a marble hearth.

“The constructing may be reimagined as a personal residence or transformed right into a gallery, retailer, museum, or basis given its prime location throughout the Met Museum,” the itemizing provides.

The house is at the moment owned by Mexico’s richest billionaire, telecom magnate Carlos Slim Helú, who purchased the residence in 2010 for $44 million as a spot for him to remain in New York whereas attending enterprise conferences.

The Duke Home really wasn’t custom-built for a particular household, as was typical with lots of New York’s iconic residences. It was constructed speculatively by builders as a result of they knew how in demand this stretch of Fifth Ave was among the many metropolis’s elite.

Shortly after it was accomplished, the house was bought by Benjamin N. Duke, who was chairman of the American Tobacco Co. on the time. The house stayed within the Duke household till 2006, when the townhouse was bought for $40 million to actual property mogul Tamir Sapir. Sapir later bought it to Slim.

The Duke Home is a delegated New York Metropolis Landmark and was added to the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations in 1989.

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