A century-old limestone building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, long used as a medical facility, is going on the market for $72 million.
Built as a single-family home in 1917, the roughly 21,000-square-foot Beaux-arts structure, on 69th Street between Park and Madison Avenues, was for decades the headquarters of the Center for Specialty Care, an outpatient facility for plastic surgery. The center ceased operating a few months ago, the medical equipment has now been removed and the building is vacant, said listing agent Paula Del Nunzio of Brown Harris Stevens. She said much of the original floor plan remains intact and a buyer will most likely return the building to use as a home.
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The building has seven stories plus a basement, with three elevators, Ms. Del Nunzio said. There are multiple terraces, including a roof deck with views of Central Park, she said, and the house retains many of its original details, including 14 marble fireplaces and a curved staircase illuminated by a stained-glass dome. She added that the structure is particularly valuable for its width of about 44 feet.
The building was purchased in 1980 by the late plastic surgeon James W. Smith Jr., who converted it to the Center for Specialty Care. Dr. Smith, who was a professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, died in 2006. The Smith family couldn’t be reached for comment.
A few blocks to the south, another limestone Upper East Side townhouse has been on the market for $84.5 million since February. The record for a Manhattan townhouse is still held by the 2006 sale of the Harkness Mansion on 75th Street for $53 million, said Ms. Del Nunzio, who represented the seller in that transaction.