One of New York’s most celebrated architects called this condo his home — and now it’s ready for its next generation of owners.
The Upper East Side residence of Robert A.M. Stern, the visionary behind Manhattan’s ultra-luxury 15 Central Park West and 220 Central Park South condominiums, has listed for $4.5 million.
Stern, a former dean at Yale University’s School of Architecture — and who had long been known as the architect for New York’s rich and famous — died this past Thanksgiving morning at age 86 from pulmonary illness.
The approximately 1,700-square-foot two-bedroom dwelling is in the Chatham, a Stern-designed property that stands at 181 E. 65th St. What’s more, it was the first condo unit that Stern had ever owned.
“He knew the building well and decided, ‘It is time I actually owned an apartment,’” Stern’s son, Nicholas, told the Wall Street Journal.
Thanks to his work on the building, which Related Companies selected Stern to handle, he had prime intel for selecting himself a great apartment — whose purchase price isn’t known. Located on the sixth floor, it’s below a building setback, with 11-foot ceilings and a roughly 88-square-foot terrace. A listing image of the terrace makes a cute nod to Stern with glasses of martinis — his favorite cocktail — set on an outdoor table.
With the helping hands of colleagues at his eponymous firm, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Stern renovated the dwelling. Its features include a wide entry gallery, an expanded great room by eliminating the third bedroom and a study — also converted from another bedroom — with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves.
Marketing images additionally show the view that Stern enjoyed from this perch, a private landscaped garden with rose window views of a church. The interiors fill with light from three exposures — and the kitchen, with two entrances, has top-of-the-line appliances, according to the unit’s StreetEasy listing.
Stern’s estate stipulated that the apartment sell.
