This $27.5 Million Townhouse in N.Y.C. Has Ties to Signers of the Declaration of Independence
A landmark building in one of New York’s buzziest neighborhoods is up for grabs. Known as the William Dare Morgan residence, the Greenwich Village townhouse was built in 1839 on Washington Square Park. It was originally built as a four-story home with a columned entrance portico for Morgan, who was a governor of the Knickerbocker Club and one of New York Hospital’s founders. He and his wife, Angelic Livingston Hoyt—a descendant of two Declaration of Independence signers—raised four children at the address.
A fifth floor was added by 1880 and 138 years later, in 2018, it was gut-renovated and split up into five floor-through apartments. Now listed for $27.5 million, it is available with or without tenants. Ravi Kantha and Jessica Taylor of Serhant hold the listing.
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Design firm Ingui Architecture is behind the most recent update of the Greek Revival-style townhouse, which spans a total of 8,750 square feet. Between its lower cellar and fifth floor, ceiling heights soar up to 12-feet high next to large windows that fill each unit with natural light. Throughout the various units, are a number of marble and stone fireplaces that sit atop hardwood flooring., while vintage candlestick light fixtures also help illuminate the home alongside modern alternatives. There’s no elevator but a single staircase takes you across all four levels
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In each of the combined living and dining rooms, you’ll find a fireplace, in addition to ample wall space for displaying art or built-in shelving for storing classic novels. Kitchens are updated and well equipped with dishwashers and gas ranges. Every primary bedroom across the five apartments has a private bath, and, eschewing homogeneity, each has its own unique features. For example, in the parlor-floor unit, there’s a soaking tub sitting in the middle of the bedroom alongside an antique fireplace; two stories up, in the building’s only one-bedroom unit, the oversized bedroom is the only one with a private balcony (the garden-floor unit does, however, open to the backyard); and a skylight floods the top-floor’s spread’s primary bedroom with natural light.
There’s a small courtyard garden at the front of the house, and an undeveloped rooftop provides enough space to create custom seating areas with a leafy view over Washington Square Park. In a statement, Kantha notes that “with 26’ of park frontage, 26 Washington Square North is as rare as N.Y.C. real estate gets.”
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