441 West 21 Booklet

“For the two of us, home isn’t a
place. It is a person. And we are

finally home.”

―

-Stephanie Perkins

WELCOME

Situated on West Chelsea’s addition to a front garden
most beautiful landmarked and terrace, nine fireplaces,
block, this stunningly original moldings, an
renovated, grand Italianate expansive contemporary
townhouse is the perfect great room, and five
blend of old-world charm skylights. Featured as Louis
and modern elegance. Built CKs dream house on his
in 1854 and expanded in television show “Louie,”
1930 through the purchase the house has also graced
of neighboring gardens, the the pages of Elle Decor,
scale of this 25 wide house Vogue, Town & Country,
is unrivaled. It features one New York magazine, and
of the largest in-ground many other international
gardens in the city, in magazines and books.

“Home is not where
you live but where
they understand

you.”
-Christian
Morgenstern

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Over the last 150 years the house has electricity etc. There is also a corking
been the home of poets, dreamers, kitchenette—clean as a whistle—
and visionaries. 441 West 21st Street white paint etc. And a corking bath-
was originally built in 1854 for room with a porcelain tub, a large
William G. Lyons. In the 1980’s it window etc. Then I saw at least three
became home to Mrs. Charles A. Du large closets for clothes. There can
Vivier, who hosted legendary social be no question about it—fine-looking
gatherings here. British composer house with perfectly-kept hall, and all
and pianist Bruno Huhn was one of that sort of thing. “The house served
many luminaries to perform here. as his inspiration for his historic
Soon after the turn-of-the-century, poem, Sunday Morning, which he
Adolph Alexander Weinman, a well- penned from its creative confines.
regarded sculptor, purchased the Weinman would go on to design the
townhouse. When a vacant unit came 1916 “Winged Liberty Dime,” and
up a few years later, he convinced his selected as the face for the coin,
friend, the poet, Wallace Stevens, Stevens wife, Elsie.
to take occupancy. Stevens was The New York City Landmark
immediately taken with the property, Preservation Commission Report of
writing to his finance, Elsie, on 1970 noted, “No.441 was built as a
August 9, 1909: Well, I think I have grand high-stooped Italianate house
found the befitting home…There are with an elaborately enframed door.”
two very large rooms with abundant In 2006, its current owner purchased
light (they occupy almost an entire the house and embarked on a grand
floor.) The front room looks out over renovation that celebrated his history
the General Theological Seminary—a while adding contemporary design
group of beautiful buildings elements that represent the finest in
occupying an entire block. It is all modern luxury.
freshly painted and papered—has
hardwood floors—open fire-places—



about the
property.

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The sunny rear garden is one of the largest you will ever find in a
townhouse. It is fully landscaped, very private, and unusual in that it
opens directly into the main living space. There is no other townhouse
presently on the market fully built to its lot line like this one, while also
featuring its own private garden.
In addition to the great room, kitchen, and garden, the first floor also
features a bedroom/den with a full en-suite Waterworks bathroom.
Above the kitchen is another bedroom and full bath, perfect for staff
quarters or as an extra guest bedroom.
Descending from the first floor, you reach the basement. Its floor was
excavated down several feet to allow for high ceilings and window wells
for natural light as part of an exhaustive three-year renovation. The
basement now contains a screening room, storage room, and guest
bathroom, and it houses the buildings mechanicals. All new HVAC,
electrical, plumbing, audio, water main, video, and security systems were
installed during the renovation.
The parlor level features a stunning bedroom with a 14 plaster ceiling, a
lovely mosaic bathroom with Waterworks fixtures and tub, and a library.
The third floor features the master bedroom with an en-suite bathroom,
an additional bedroom and bathroom, and an office that opens onto a
landscaped terrace with irrigation.
The natural light level increases on the fourth and fifth floors thanks to
large windows on all four exposures and multiple skylights. Northern
views include the Empire State Building. These floors feature a home
office, three large bedrooms, three bathrooms, an eat-in kitchen, and a
dining room. Original details abound in this light and airy space.
Currently, the fourth and fifth floors are configured as a separate duplex,
but the home can easily be reconfigured as a 9,700-square-foot single-
family residence. Or you may wish to maintain it as a 6,700-sqare-foot
triplex plus basement with five bedrooms and five and a half bathrooms,
plus a 3,000-square-foot duplex with three bedrooms and three
bathrooms.
This extraordinary offering is for a resident who demands nothing but
the best. Each room will impress, inspire, and stir your imaginationjust
as it did poet Wallace Stevens over 100 years ago, when he penned
Sunday Morning about his then-home in this very townhouse.

8 bedrooms
8½ bathrooms
17 total rooms
9,700 square feet
6 total floors
private garden

bedrooms.

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The bedrooms of 441 West 21st have
been designed with a sense of history
and modernity. Many original details
were preserved or restored in an effort
to recreate the rooms of the past. At
the same time, new windows, lighting,
and finishes provide all the essential
elements needed for today.



dining.

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kitchen.

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“Always go to
the bathroom
when you have a

chance.”

- King George, V

bathrooms.

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garden.

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“Give me odorous
at sunrise a garden

of beautiful
flowers where

I can walk
undisturbed.”
- Walt Whitman

“The home is the center
and circumference, the
start and the finish, of

most of our lives.”

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman

title here.

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price $24,700,000 price $24,700,000
building Pre-War building Pre-War
type Townhouse type Townhouse
floors 5 + Basement floors 5 + Basement

Press.

The townhome has been featured in the
following publications:

Contact.

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Jason Haber

LICENSED ASSOCIATE REAL ESTATE BROKER

o: 212.327.9624
[email protected]