From A Cancer Hospital Built In 1887 To Luxury Condos Today - No Corners For Germs
The prices paid for the turret apartments were the highest prices paid for a coop or condo north of 96th Street originally priced from $4.8 - $7.6 million.
Affluent buyers paying record prices are moving on up to deluxe apartments on the Upper Upper West Side. The apartment is over 5000 square feet with 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a library, dining room, and family room; eat in kitchen, two terraces and a patio with 1000 square feet of outdoor space.
The French renaissance style chateau building has intricate wrought iron gates, arcaded loggia and imposing circular towers and slate roof. Built in 1887 for the New York Cancer Hospital, the first cancer hospital in the city.
The building has 5 round turrets because at the time it was built corners were thought to harbor germs. It later became a nursing home and asylum whose management was convicted of Medicaid fraud and it closed.
The building had been dormant and decaying for more than 25 years. Local neighborhood residents call it the castle.
In 2001 a Chicago developer Dan McLean who also built a development on Fisher Island off the Miami coast broke ground blending the landmark building with a new 26-story tower. The new building shares a lobby and courtyard with the chateau-style structure. Each turret condo has at least 1 circular room.
9/11 caused hardship and a halt to the project until Columbia University came to the rescue. The first 15 floors in the tower were bought by Columbia University. They bought 2 and 3 bedroom apartments for prominent professors and visiting dignitaries. They paid $45.38 million for 53 luxury condos an average of about $1 million per apartment.
The building is opposite Central Park, the area is called Manhattan Valley adjacent to Harlem and a few blocks east of Morningside Heights
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