19 East 82nd Street is a meticulously renovated 25-foot wide Beaux Arts mansion on one of the most elegant and historic residential blocks in Manhattan. Just half a block from Central Park and the front steps of the Metropolitan Museum, this five-storey nearly 11,000 square foot building with a commercial zoning overlay is distinguished by an elegant, neo-Renaissance facade of rusticated limestone and Roman brick. Built in 1898 for cigar-manufacturing magnate Edward A. Kerbs in an era when the Upper East Side's Gold Coast first became famous as the address of choice for America's wealthiest families. Steps from the high-end boutiques, hotels and restaurants of Madison Avenue and a short walk from the Guggenheim and Whitney Museums, this one-of-a-kind property is suitable for use as a spectacular single-family home, or as an embassy, foundation, corporate headquarters or institution. The building was fully restored and refurbished in 2006. The house contains five bedrooms, seven full bathrooms and three half-bathrooms. The interior contains a number of impressive public rooms, with marble floors, wood paneling and 11-foot ceilings. A large, paneled passenger elevator makes the entire building handicapped- accessible. Dentil crown molding and mahogany French doors appear throughout the building, which retains many of the original architectural features, including five working fireplaces. The ground floor, now being used to display museum-quality art from the 19th and 20th centuries, opens onto a stone-paved courtyard at the rear of the building. A wide marble stairway runs from the ground floor to the fifth floor, and an additional service stairway serves the basement, first and second floors. The second-floor dining room includes a graceful bay window with built-in alcove seating. While the front parlor room swims with southern light through oversized windows. The spectacular third-floor library is graced by oak, herringbone floors, a gently curving front wall and th
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