Hotel Des Artistes apartment #909
The rising crop of supertall towers command real estate headlines and the skyline alike, yet New York’s magnificent stock of pre-war apartment buildings continues to drop gems onto the market. A few days ago, a five-bedroom, 5,500-square-foot triplex was listed in the Upper West Side’s Hotel Des Artistes, the city’s premier studio loft co-op, for $14.9 million.
The regal living room measures 45 by 17 feet and boasts 18-foot ceilings, banquette seats along massive south-facing windows, a fireplace with a Gothic mantelpiece, and an upper-floor viewing mezzanine. An enfilade portal opens onto the library, which centers on a second fireplace. The palace-in-the-sky also offers a dining room with floral moldings on the ceiling, an ornate oak staircase, an office with the unit’s third fireplace, a children’s bedroom with bunked sleeping alcoves, and a glass-ceiled rooftop solarium that faces a 60-foot-long terrace lined with Gothic finials and medieval battlements.
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Hotel Des Artistes apartment #909
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The building, designed by architect George Mott Pollard, stands at 1 West 67th Street, almost directly next to Central Park, on a tree-lined block in a district listed National Register of Historic Places, where seven pre-war artist loft buildings stand side by side. Ever since its 1916 completion, the Hotel has housed a who-is-who of elite luminaries, such as artists Norman Rockwell and LeRoy Neiman, actors Rudolph Valentino and Sir Noël Peirce Coward, dancer Isadora Duncan, choreographer George Balanchine, Mayor John V. Lindsay, writer Fannie Hurst, and critics Alexander Woollcott and Paul Goldberger, as well as many other well-known public figures.
Private roofdeck at the Hotel Des Artistes apartment #909 (Douglas Elliman)
Sinuous Gothic tracery and crockets decorate the facade. Inside, the building offers amenities that few other co-ops can match, such as an indoor pool, a fitness center with a squash court, and The Leopard at Des Artistes, an in-house restaurant that offers resident catering. The premises are serviced by a twenty-four-hour doorman, an elevator operator, concierge, and a live-in superintendent. The co-op is located within walking distance from the Lincoln Center and Columbus Circle, and offers the Upper West Side’s famed shopping and dining within easy reach.
Hotel Des Artistes
Hotel Des Artistes
Hotel Des Artistes
CityRealty’s recently-updated rundown of the Upper West Side’s top co-ops ranks Hotel Des Artistes at #4, in the running toe-to-toe against the likes of legendary Dakota, The San Remo, and The Beresford, and ahead of Central Park-facing icons such as The Majestic, The Eldorado, and The Ardsley.
If your residential needs do not include a chateau-sized triplex, Hotel Des Artistes also offers several “modest” one- to three-bedroom units, all of which also feature double-height living areas, available from $1.2 million to $3.2 million.
Hotel Des Artistes apartment #909 floor plan
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