Credit: Essential New York Real Estate LLC
Manhattan house-hunters would likely consider renting this historic Upper East Side townhouse for $22,550 a month, even without knowing Andy Warhol lived there from 1960 until 1972. The Lexington Avenue home, two blocks from the Guggenheim Museum, is a remarkably preserved example of the Northern Renaissance Revival style by architect Henry J. Hardenbergh.
Its 285 sqms are filled with modern updates, appliances, built-in storage, and hardwood floors, yet it has maintained heritage details like the formal living room and wood-panelled library on the parlour level.
But its artistic credentials will surely boost its desirability. According to the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, Warhol had many early successes while living here with his mother (and 25 cats). He established his Factory in Midtown and showed his famous Campbell’s soup can paintings while in residence, and filled the rooms with his art. The artist reportedly paid $60,000 for the townhouse in 1959. After leaving in the early 1970s, he completed his Mao prints and moved into a brownstone on 66th Street, where he lived until his death in 1987.
Though the Lexington Avenue house is currently zoned for live/work, it’s been configured for single-family living, with a sleek garden-level kitchen with top-line fittings, plenty of communal areas, four bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, two sets of laundry machines and a private rear garden.
The property is currently listed with Essential New York Real Estate LLC.
