Gimme Shelter exclusively reported<\/a>.<\/p>\nBut the listing comes with a catch.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The famed artist Mark Rothko, who died in 1970 at age 66. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The home is replete with elegant touches, such as a fireplace in this plush living area. Zoe Wetherall<\/p>\n
A view of the grand layout. Zoe Wetherall<\/p>\n
Fireplaces accent many areas inside. Zoe Wetherall<\/p>\n
One family owns and raised their family in a five-bedroom duplex that\u2019s now back on the market. A Japanese company owns the second half and operates a non-profit tea society foundation there, and has no plans to sell at the moment, said listing brokers Jeremy Stein and Jennifer Henson, of Sotheby\u2019s International Realty.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Urasenke Tea Ceremony Society, according to its web material, is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and understanding the \u201cWay of Tea\u201d through lectures, demonstrations and classes.<\/p>\n
Both the society and the duplex owners agreed when they bought the property that they would sell the building 50 years later if both parties didn\u2019t want to hold on to it. That\u2019s 12 years from now, Stein said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the moment, the Japanese company doesn\u2019t want to sell but they will have to in 12 years and the [$9.5 million] property will be worth a lot more at that time,\u201d Stein said. He added that if someone bought the duplex now and lived in it, they\u2019d make a large profit when they would sell the building, which is estimated at the moment to be worth around $24 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At one point in the 1950s, the property was divided into music studios \u2014 and that\u2019s how Presley fits in.\u00a0It\u2019s where he\u00a0re-recorded the end of the soundtrack for his first film, \u201cLove Me Tender.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Untitled, Mark Rothko, 1955, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n
The kitchen has eat-in space. Zoe Wetherall<\/p>\n
There\u2019s room aplenty for a home office. Zoe Wetherall<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are scenes of him [in 1956] signing autographs outside the house, and getting mobbed as he leaves in a car out of the garage,\u201d Stein said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The home was built for a wealthy financier, James Stillman. The carriage house\u2019s next chapter was recording studios and, after that, Rothko\u2019s studio.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rothko often worked in the space and sometimes would cover the skylight with a parachute to create different types of light when he worked. The property is where Rothko created art for the famed, and non-denominational, Rothko Chapel in Houston.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are five delightful bedrooms inside. Zoe Wetherall<\/p>\n
The landscaped roof deck comes with views of the neighborhood. Zoe Wetherall<\/p>\n
This building is part of a \u201cstable row,\u201d one of the side streets between Lexington and Third avenues where wealthy Manhattanites kept their horses and carriages during the Gilded Age.<\/p>\n
Built in 1884, the double-wide red brick structure\u00a0was designed by architect William Schickel.\u00a0It features arched windows, a large arched door, a one-car garage, a coveted curb cut and the enclosed garden.<\/p>\n
The private residence, which can also be accessed through the garage,\u00a0opens to a large living area with a working woodburning fireplace and a glass-enclosed terrace. There\u2019s also a formal dining room, with access to the terrace, and an eat-in chef\u2019s kitchen. There are three bedrooms on this level \u2014 one with a working fireplace \u2014 as well as three baths and a laundry room.<\/p>\n
The upper level boasts an atrium at the top of the stairs with skylights. There\u2019s also a main bedroom suite lined with windows that look out to the landscaped roof terrace, plus another working fireplace. There\u2019s also\u00a0a home office on this floor, along with a tea room, storage and access to the terrace. <\/p>\n
Along with the stairs, there\u2019s an elevator that goes from the top floor to the garage. In addition, a mezzanine level comes with additional storage and a wine cellar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only in New York could a single Gilded Age carriage house have ties to both the abstract painter…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":86306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,14471,42131,5418,58271,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4329,10204,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-86305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-gimme-shelter","10":"tag-historic-buildings","11":"tag-luxury-real-estate","12":"tag-mark-rothko","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-real-estate","20":"tag-residential-real-estate","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114903381918157257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}