It’s a knockout!
A landmark, $49.5 million Gilded Age mansion in the heart of Manhattan has caught the eye of boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr.
After recently touring the city’s most expensive home, as Gimme Shelter exclusively reported — a $150,000-a-month Soho penthouse owned by former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick — Mayweather has shifted his home search to Midtown, we can find out.
The retired boxing champion, who boasts 30 million followers on social media, is also a real estate investor whose massive portfolio includes 1,000 affordable housing units as well as luxury assets in the city.
He was recently spotted looking at 9 W. 54th St., a 50-foot-wide brick and limestone residence off Fifth Avenue across from the Museum of Modern Art. The residence is a combination of two separate townhouses.
The current seller bought the building for $55 million in 2019.
The property was built in 1898 for JP Morgan’s cousin and business partner, James Goodwin. It was designed by the famous architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, whose other landmarks include the University Club of New York, the original Penn Station, the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, and the main campus of Columbia University.
The five-storey neo-Georgian terrace comes with 11 bedrooms.
Original details include 12 fireplaces, hand-crafted woodwork and millwork, numerous columns, hardwood floors and stained glass. There is also a vault for the original owners’ silver in the octagonal dining room and a 17-foot-deep bank vault with bulletproof windows, as the building once served as the headquarters of the US Trust Company.
It’s currently zoned mixed-use, so it could serve as an office, a gallery, a private club or an embassy — alternatively, it could be converted back to its original status as a single-family residence, the listing notes.
All open to a wood-panelled entrance gallery, a library, a reception room and other fine spaces. Two staircases, with original roofs above, lead to a lounge floor with ceilings just under 14 meters high. Two large rooms here have floor-to-ceiling windows, along with five Juliet balconies with “tree-lined street views” of MoMA’s sculpture garden. There is also a library, butler’s pantry in the dining room and a glass conservatory overlooking a garden.
The following floors, three through five, can be configured to suit the buyer. A windowed cellar with French doors leads to a landscaped garden with two entrances.
The listing brokers are Patricia Vance and Sandra Ripert of Douglas Elliman, who declined to comment.
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