"Among them: this seven-bedroom, 14-bathroom limestone mansion nestled between two high-rise buildings on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The 11,500-square-foot property, which is listed with Douglas Elliman agent Lydia Sussek, hit the market in April for a cool $29.75 million. But it's been around much, much longer. It was commissioned in 1901 by builder Joseph A. Farley, who hired the architecture firm Janes and Leo."
"In the 1940s, the exiled Russian prince Sergei Belosselsky-Belozersky purchased the building and made it the headquarters of a nonprofit for Russian immigrants to New York called the House of Free Russia, The Real Deal reported. It remained as such for 50 years, and was left in a state of somewhat disrepair, until it was sold and refurbished in 1999."
An 11,500-square-foot Beaux-Arts limestone mansion on Manhattan's Upper West Side has seven bedrooms, 14 bathrooms and seven floors including a cellar and a roof. The property is listed for $29.75 million with Douglas Elliman agent Lydia Sussek. Commissioned in 1901 by builder Joseph A. Farley and designed by Janes and Leo, the house later belonged to developer Samuel Borchard until 1930. In the 1940s exiled Russian prince Sergei Belosselsky-Belozersky made it the House of Free Russia for immigrants and it served that role for about 50 years before falling into disrepair. Randall Rackson bought and thoroughly renovated it in 1999; he lived there until deciding to downsize.
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