In the 1930s, it was converted into apartments, and then went co-op in 1952, after narrowly escaping a date with the wrecking ball. Shortly thereafter, his family moved out and the magnificent mansion sat vacant for years. The newspaper baron got to enjoy his baronial digs for about eight years before he passed away in 1911. Costing $369,000 to construct, or roughly $9 million in today’s money, it featured a 50-foot ballroom, a basement swimming pool and squash court, and a custom-built electro-pneumatic Aeolian pipe organ. Currently on the market in Manhattan’s Upper East Side is a three-bedroom spread in the former mansion designed for publishing mogul Joseph Pulitzer by premier Gilded Age architect Stanford White of the illustrious firm McKim, Mead & White.Ĭompleted in 1903, the four-story, limestone-clad residence’s design was modeled after a pair of 17th century Venetian palazzos. While you can’t buy yourself a Pulitzer Prize, for $4.5 million, you can buy a piece of a prize Pulitzer property.
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