17 East 90th Street

> 1ST Floor: This floor is accessed by a separate service entrance and contains a very large laundry, playroom, storage room and enormous kitchen.2nd Floor: From the arcaded loggia, one enters up a half story into this elegant 28.83' wide, Neo Georgian mansion through impressive carved doors into a15'8" high entrance foyer. > There is a powder room and charming reception/sitting room with fireplace and an elevator that services all floors. > The foyer leads to a grand gallery with 12'8" ceilings and a large elegant marble staircase. > Also off the foyer is the baronial 28'4" long dining room with 12'10" ceilings with fireplace and floor to ceiling French windows. > There is a serving pantry, dumb elevator and backstairs to the kitchen's pantry below.3rd Floor: At the top of the elegant staircase is a large gallery with Neo-Classical moldings, columns and pediments. > Radiating off the gallery to the front is a voluminous drawing room with 15'5" ceilings, fireplace and oversize almost floor to ceiling French windows. > To the rear of the landing is a mahogany paneled library with fireplace and tall French windows leading to a smallterrace.4th Floor: Another circular staircase from the entertaining rooms to the private quarters upstairs. > On the front is the master suite with antique hand painted wall paper, are 2 charming bedrooms with fireplaces and one largebath.5th Floor: To the front of the mansion is an oversized bedroom suite with fireplace and playroom with kitchen, walk-in cedar closets and a terrace.6th Floor: Currently configured for staff, this floor contains 2 nice sized bedrooms 3 smaller bedrooms, 2 baths and 2 large storage rooms. > This floor could easily contains 3 large bedrooms and ensuite baths. > Roof: There is a roof deck with open views to the reservoir and Central Park. > Built in 1917-1919, this unusually grand mansion was designed by F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr. for Charlotte Winthrop Fowler. > In the early 1920's it was acquired by Fernanda Wanamaker de Heeren Munn, whose family has occupied the house for 4 generations. > Like a large, elegant Parisian "hotel particulier the effect is extremely grand with staggeringly high ceilings and voluminous, highly decorated rooms and 10 period marble fireplaces. > Thankfully, the house retains all its original details and truly represents a "moment in time". > In-deed it was a very grand moment when, after Carnegie built his house, now the Cooper Hewitt Museum, such illustrious people as Otto Kahn, the Burdens, Van-derbilts, Warburgs, Whitneys, Bakers and Carharts all followed suit with their own large mansions in the East 90's.