49 East 80th Street
House at 49 East 80th Street | |
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 49 East 80th Street (left) | |
| Location | 49 E 80th St., Manhattan, New York, US |
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| Coordinates | 40°46′44″N 73°57′40″W / 40.77889°N 73.96111°WCoordinates: 40°46′44″N 73°57′40″W / 40.77889°N 73.96111°W Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Architect | Harry Allan Jacobs |
| Architectural style | Art Deco |
| {{{DESIGNATED_OTHER1_ABBR}}} # | 06101.016200 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | 2007-11-15 |
| Designated {{{DESIGNATED_OTHER1_ABBR}}} | 2007-09-27[1] |
49 East 80th Street is a mansion on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, US. The five-story mansion was designed in the Art Deco style by Harry Allan Jacobs for the banker Lionello Perera. It was built in 1930.
Description
49 East 80th Street is a mansion on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, US.[3][4] The building occupies a rectangular 2,554-square-foot (237.3 m2) land lot on the north side of the street, with a frontage measuring 25 feet (7.6 m) wide and a depth extending 102 feet (31 m) into the block. It is one block north of the New York Society Library.[5] The mansion was designed in the Art Deco style by Harry Allan Jacobs for the banker Lionello Perera.[3][6]
Exterior
The main elevation of the facade, on 80th Street, is made of multi-colored stone on the ground floor and plain brick on the upper stories. The first story has a recessed entrance in its leftmost (western) bay with a metal alloy gate; the entrance is capped by a cast stone band with abstract zigzags, and a rhombus motif bearing the address number "49". The first story's center bay has a metal casement window, and the eastern bay has a garage door.[7] When built, the eastern bay originally had a front kitchen space.[7][8] On the second story is a single casement window, while the third and fourth stories contain two casements, each with four lights (panes). Above the windows on these stories are decorative brick courses and pyramidal corbels. The fifth story functions as a windowless attic.[7]
The rear elevation has a five-story brick facade. At the ground floor is a raised terrace with a French door, awning, and garden steps. The upper floors include large casement windows; the second story has one casement window with French doors, while the other stories have two casement windows apiece. These windows open onto connected fire escapes overlooking a landscaped garden.[9]
Interior
The house spans five stories, plus a basement, and has five bathrooms and eight bedrooms.[4] The interior covers nearly 9,200 square feet (850 m2)[10] and was described in The New York Times as having originally been decorated in a "severe" style.[8]
The first story has an octagonal entrance vestibule with matching mirror-image terrazzo floor and plaster ceiling designs. A doorway , with a transom of leaded glass, leads to the front hall, where a curving staircase with a metal railing and an elevator lead to the upper stories. The rear of the first floor has a dining room, which contains the French doors to the garden, along with a metal Art Deco fireplace mantel with symmetrical leaf fronds.[9] A kitchen connects with the dining room; it supplants the original kitchen, which was replaced by the garage.[11]
The second floor has a grand sitting room at the front, illuminated by the large casement window. It has decorative pilasters topped by Art Deco capitals, and a fireplace with classically-inspired paneled pilasters and abstract geometric ornamentation. The second floor also includes a rear library with paneled walls, a plaster ceiling, and a fireplace, illuminated by the casement window overlooking the garden.[12] The bedrooms on the third and fourth stories have similar casement windows to the sitting room, and they also have decorative pilasters beneath flat architraves. The fifth floor, originally a windowless attic story, is used as a kitchen and has exposed ceiling beams and a skylight.[12]
History
Perera died in 1942, and Walter E. Sachs, the descendant of a founder of the banking firm Goldman Sachs, bought the house.[6]
In 1970, the actress Barbra Streisand bought the house for $420,000.[10][6] At the time, Streisand said she had been rejected for membership in two nearby housing cooperatives because of her occupation. Streisand said she "would much rather have the 17 rooms horizontally than vertically" but that she did not have much choice than to buy a multistory house.[6] The real-estate magnate Michael T. Cohen bought the house in 1980 for $4 million.[13] By 2024, Cohen had listed the building for sale for $18 million;[4][13] it was sold the next year for $15.9 million.[10][14]
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan from 59th to 110th Streets
- Art Deco architecture of New York City
References
- ↑ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. November 7, 2014. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2023. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ National Park Service (2013-11-02). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gray, Christopher (March 7, 2004). "Streetscapes/East 80th Street From Madison to Park Avenues; A Block With Rare Windows and Unusual Statues". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Crowley, Kinsey (2024-07-06). "Barbra Streisand's former NYC mansion listed for $18m: Photos". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
- ↑ "49 East 80 Street, 10075". New York City Department of City Planning. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Reif, Rita (11 June 1970). "Barbra prefers apartments: $420,000 house is a 'compromise'". The Globe and Mail. p. W8. ISSN 0319-0714. ProQuest 1242125415.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 National Park Service 2007, p. 3.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Manhattan Private Home Plans at Low Record; Building Bureau Reports Only Four Designs Filed for Individual Dwellings Last Year". The New York Times. February 9, 1930. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 National Park Service 2007, p. 4.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Wall, Sheridan (2025-08-25). "Barbra Streisand's former UES home tops Manhattan's luxury contracts". The Real Deal. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
- ↑ National Park Service 2007, pp. 3–4.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 National Park Service 2007, p. 5.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Hughes, C. J. (2025-08-25). "Williams Equities' Michael Cohen sells East 80th Street townhouse once owned by Barbra Streisand". Crain's New York Business. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
- ↑ Levingston, Miranda (2025-08-27). "Barbra Streisand's Upper East Side Townhouse Sells For $15.9M". Patch. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
Sources
- National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: House at 49 East 80th Street (PDF) (Report). National Park Service. 2007. Retrieved August 2, 2026.
- Upper East Side Historic District (PDF) (Report). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. 1981. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 21, 2020. Unknown parameter
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