16 West 74th Street, PH

Rare elevator townhouse junior one bedroom with huge roof deck and wood burning fireplace.

Built in 1891 and located just off Central Park West this elevator townhouse offers that special pre-war cooperative home. Take the elevator to the 5th floor and walk up one flight to the Penthouse, with incredible unobstructed views of the San Remo and upper west side looking north over the tops of the townhouses across the street. The south section of this junior one bedroom includes an approximate 19x20 private roof deck facing south looking half a block away at the Dakota, accessed through sliding glass doors adjacent to the open kitchen.

This junior one bedroom in need of renovation has high ceilings, two skylights and a wood burning fireplace with exposed brick, and there is a very large storage cage in the basement included in the sale.

The home receives direct sunlight from both the north and south. The townhouse recently underwent a major improvement of the facade, replacement of the roof and the roof deck of the penthouse, new fence and brickwork and new carpeting and tiles in the common areas. NO DOGS

16 West 74th Street is the only one that remains of an original row of four townhouses built in 1891 by the builder-developer Cornellus W. Luyster from the designs of the architect John H. Duncan (1855-1929). Duncan's reputation had already been established by such prestigious commissions as the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch on Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn (1889-92) and the classically-inspired Grant's Tomb in Manhattan (1891-97). Both of these monuments designated New York City Landmarks were under construction at the same time as the West 74th Street row was being erected. Duncan frequently collaborated with Luyster in fashionable residential development. Many of Duncan's designs were in the French Classical style including the house at 11 East 70th Street, also a designated New York City Landmark, and many fine townhouses in the Central Park West - 76th Street Historical District.