Inside a $32,000,000 New York Townhouse With Incredible River Views

Welcome to another edition of the Luxury Home Show. We're coming to you from Beekman Place in Manhattan. Beekman Place is an important historical and cultural neighborhood in the history of New York City. It was built by William Beekman, who had his mansion here in Mount Pleasant, which at one time was the headquarters of the British during the Revolutionary War. George Washington, in fact, visited the state multiple times and sort of set the foundation for this being a very important cultural, political, and artistic center of Manhattan. So Beekman Place, once it was redeveloped by Anne Morgan, has been a magnet for a lot of really culturally important and historic figures in New York City. You've had Irving Berlin, the American composer who lived next door. You had Paul Rudolph, one of the most important American architects, build his home next door. You had William Paley, the founder of CBS, build his house a few doors down. And you had the singer Tom Jones. So in only a small three or four block radius, you've had incredibly important figures in the U.S. history, both culture, political, and artistic. So now we're going to look at 21 Beekman Place. This is a five bedroom, six and a half bath home, over 7,000 square feet, built in the 1920s by Ellen Shipman. It sits on this beautiful cul-de-sac here on the river. Incredible light. It's a corner plot, open, with just gorgeous exposures. Why don't we go in and take a look at this $32 million masterpiece. So we're standing in the foyer of 21 Beekman Place. It's typical of the 1920s style. We have a lovely, large, marble, grand foyer with a working fireplace and the grand staircase that leads up to the entertaining spaces. Let's check out the dining area. So we're coming into the dining space at 21 Beekman. This is a really expansive and grand dining area. We have beautiful herringbone floors, two exposures. You really feel the 25 foot width of this home when you're standing in this dining space. You can entertain grandly here. You can have parties, 20, 30 people at a table. And it's capped by four beautiful windows, one overlooking the East River, and a beautiful fireplace. Upstairs is one of the most unique features in this house. It's a conservatory that is just really going to take your breath away. So before I take you upstairs to look at the rest of the house, I want to show some more features that are here on this first floor. As you walk through towards the kitchen, you have this gorgeous powder room. There's original marble throughout. And as you cross into through the foyer one more time, you come into this very elegant and well-appointed kitchen. The kitchen is framed by a ton of storage. You have a double sub-zero fridge here. You have this country-style raw bronze kitchen island and sink. The real jewel of this kitchen is this massive Le Corneau range. You have an eat-in kitchen here, ton of cabinets. It's very homey. It's very comfortable. And this door leads to the basement. The basement is functioning, has a full bath, laundry, staff quarters if needed. And then of course, at the end of the kitchen here, you have your service entrance where you can get deliveries. 21 Beekman Place is six stories tall. It has an elevator. It services all the six stories. We will take the stairs to the next level. Come up to the second floor of 21 Beekman. This is the main landing area. It has a fireplace, a lovely nook where the elevator lets out and leads to the Grand Conservatory. So the Conservatory at 21 Beekman is really one of the most special rooms of this home. And it's been really conceived of as two separate areas. The first is sort of surrounded around this beautiful fireplace, elegant moldings, fine details, very serene stone. The paneling around the room is silk, and the room itself has three exposures. That's very unique for a townhouse in New York and is a benefit of being on this corner plot. The room has tremendous East River views. You can really see expansively all the way from the Midtown Bridge, all the way down to the Brooklyn Bridge, down south. The sitting area itself is really open to the river, and you really get a sense of sort of light and airiness that I think resonated from even the 1920s and does so still today. What's very exciting about this room is the preservation of a lot of the original details that was put into this house by Shipman. What you'll see here are these beautiful moldings that line the Conservatory all around. It continues to an extensive floorboard molding that really elevates and accentuates the height of the ceilings and the openness of the space. As you run through this second level, you're going to notice that there's another powder room, again with beautiful marble and elegant wallpapers. It's spacious, it's well-appointed. Now let me take you into the den on the second floor. As you walk by, you're going to notice that the elevator does service this floor as well. If you want an alternative way, then the stairwell. You have this incredible nook that's kicked out with three beautiful windows in this bay. Again, the ceiling height is very beautiful. So the den and or library at 21 Beekman is wood paneled. Another fireplace. This one has beautiful inlay details all around. It's really a special mantle. There's also picture frame molding throughout the space. There's levered doors that lead out to Juliet balconies. And this is one of the more unique and special little nooks of the home. This is a little bay window that kicks out and looks out on this tree. This was designed by Shipman herself and she was a landscape architect. You can just imagine that she would sit here and enjoy the trees as you can still today. The space itself still has a library on either side. It has wallpaper as a design element. It has recessed lighting, high ceilings, a working fireplace. For a den or for a library, this is a very calming and serene space. It's a real sanctuary in this home. When you're in it, you sort of feel the sort of calmness and I think that Shipman probably intended it that way when she created it. So that completes the second level of 21 Beekman. Let's go upstairs where there's a private terrace and sunroom. The home at 21 Beekman Place does offer you two private outdoor spaces. Let's have a look. So the third level is the primary suite level. It is serviced by the elevator. This elevator is on every floor. It has this beautiful inlay pattern, this cloud inlay pattern that you'll see throughout. This is the primary suite. It has a marble bathroom, a dressing area, a little bay nook to enjoy the view from and it's quite expensive. Across from the primary is the sunroom and the first of the many terraces that we have. Sunroom is again a three exposure room capped with a sunroof as well. Here's the primary level outdoor space. It's expansive. You can see from the Midtown Bridge all the way down to the Brooklyn Bridge. You get a very nice perspective on how this plot is situated. We have the Berlin House over here, Paul Rudolph House next door and we're open and exposed on the three corners, which is why this home gets such beautiful natural light. So upstairs are the four additional bedrooms of this home and capped with a final outdoor space. I hope you've enjoyed the tour. If you have, please like and subscribe to the Luxury Home Show. If you're interested in any more information on the property, feel free to reach out. My information is in the details below on the video. Thank you for watching. Hi, welcome Luxury Home Show. I'm Tara Kanner from Tara Kanner Interiors. Welcome to my home in Scarsdale, New York. Come on in.