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Lawyerly Lairs: An $8 Million, Full-Floor Flat

A partner at a major law firm just acquired a beautiful prewar apartment on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

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Here is the lyrical listing, via StreetEasy (which also reveals that the apartment was once listed for as much for $10.6 million, before being pulled from the market and re-listed):

Enter this apartment and step back into a European, delightfully romantic period of fine living. The year is 1917 and the architect – Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert (1861-1952) – is creating private city residences for an elite clientele. 1067 5th Avenue – now landmarked – is a coveted 13-floor apartment building in which each floor is a single luxury home. Gilbert’s use of an unbroken expanse of windows along the building’s Central Park and Reservoir frontage was revolutionary for its time. Three double sets of windows provide almost 50 feet of views of the Park, the Reservoir, and classic buildings on Central Park West. The apartment is windowed in every room, on all 4 sides.

Four grand entertaining spaces command Park views: Living Room, Music Room, Library and Dining Room. This apartment originally had 13 rooms: 4 Bedrooms; 3 Maids Rooms, a Servants Hall, Kitchen, 3 Full Baths and 2 Half Baths.

You can see Central Park and the Reservoir in this photograph of the (huge) living room:

Note the oak parquet flooring, touted as original in the listing.

In this picture of the music room, you can look back into the living room and see one of the apartment’s three wood-burning fireplaces:

Of course, the music room has a fireplace too, as revealed in this shot:

Where in the apartment is the third fireplace? Take a guess….

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