A West Village townhouse with interiors and exteriors that have actually been featured on the cinema in movies such as 1988’s iconic Working Girl recently sold for $15.5 million, according to city records filed Tuesday.
The charming 5,834-square-foot house attributes five bed rooms as well as two and also a half shower rooms, with a roomy shop flooring boasting 12-foot-high ceilings; the top level has ceilings as high as 15 feet. Significant exterior features consist of polygonal bay home windows as well as bowed facade.
Windows on 3 of the four sides of the structure also let in lots of all-natural light. Inside your home, the house has nine fire places, 3 of which are housed in the three-way shop sitting room area (the parlor likewise has original information such as moving mantels and doors).
Followers of the 1988 movie, which starred Melanie Griffith as Tess McGill, will certainly keep in mind the house as the fictional pad that Harrison Ford’s Jack Trainer drags her to after she’s lost consciousness from an evening on the town. It is also where the two eventual enthusiasts eat morning meal with each other before Griffith’s personality avoid to her very first day of operate at her dream task.
The outside of the home has been included in other movies as well, most significantly The Night We Never Met, starring Matthew Broderick, and Autumn in New York with Winona Ryder. Robert Redford’s Quiz Kid and also even a Madonna music video have actually likewise been fired on the premises.
The seller of the elegant house also has a star pedigree: Jewelry designer to the stars David Yurman purchased the house for $17 million in 2015 after an extreme bidding battle (a significant $3 million over its initial asking rate), as well as just recently marketed it at a considerable $1.5 million loss.
The house was initially built in 1852 for trustees of Trinity Church, and before Yurman, belonged to Mary E. Kaplan, who got the area in 1969 and was the one that frequently leased the area to studios for film shoots.