The two -storey palace in the sky that William Randolph Hearst, a greater mogul than the life of the media that inspired the “Citizen Kane”, built for his lady is on sale.
The list of $ 26 million marks the first selling of the 21st century co-op unit. Ritz Tower settlement, commissioned by the one -time owner of the building, Hears, for actress Marion Davies, proud
Douglas Elliman’s Michael Kotler holds the historic list, located on the 19th and 20th floors of 465 Park Avenue.
Hears, whose personal and professional life inspired the film “Citizen Kane”, bought Ritz Tower – then an apartment hotel – in the late 1920s.
Decades, scandalous between Hears and Davies led to the eternal removal of Hearst and his wife, Millicent Willson, and mainly in the shadows of the impressive career of the Davies film.
Hearst, whose newspapers were famous for the sensational headlines, seemed to have an equally dramatic eye for internal design.
â € œ you feel like you are in [Met] Cloisters, â € said Kotler.
The 11 -room white marble entrance gives way to a great brilliant hall. The two-storey room features a wooden ceiling transported by a Venetian palace and numerous 17th-century glass window windows. The ceiling fresco was completed by the current owner of the house, Kotler said.
The dining room also feels glass windows with arched stained, a 12 -foot oriental screen and a wooden fireplace, according to the list. Even the doors of the house are historic, Kotler said, listening from a 16th-century monastery.
The quality of as a home museum lies in many of the furniture included in the $ 26 million list, including a 100-year-old Aggri carpet, review desks and one hour with 10 feet Vanderbil.
A balcony with the Views Central Park, called by the Library of Nut Panels, ends up around the sides of the North, South and West of the co-op.
Residents at 465 Park Avenue enjoy hotel -style services, including home holding and room service.
He lived with a hearing with Davies at the Ritz Tower House in the 1930s, according to â € œMansions in the re: Emory Roth Palazzi, â € by Steven Ruttenbaum. But the pair were avoided in 1938 when Hearst, debt in debt Great depression, predetermined in his mortgage payments, returned the building to the bank and moved to California with Davies.
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