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A Gilded Age Upper West Side mansion that’s been restored right down to its carved paneling and stained-glass windows has hit the market, but one of its original features didn’t make the cut.
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The house at 313 West 74th Street, between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue, was listed on Sept. 30 for $26 million, according to StreetEasy. That works out to about $2,363 per square foot for roughly 11,000 square feet behind a 25-foot-wide limestone facade.It’s not clear from public records what he paid, Crain’s reports, though Zillow’s sales history lists a $3.825 million sale in July 2000, which would make the new asking price nearly seven times that.
The home has 14 rooms, including seven bedrooms and at least five bathrooms, according to the listing. Original details include carved wood paneling, decorative columns, parquet floors, stained glass and ornate fireplaces, and the formal dining room has a coffered wood ceiling. There’s also a chef’s kitchen with a center island and two outdoor grills, a screening room, and a top-floor entertaining room that opens onto a roof terrace with views toward the Hudson River.
Owner Ronald Domb bought the house in 2000 and then spent several years renovating it, Crain’s reports. The one historic detail he didn’t bring back was the home’s birdcage-style elevator, which he donated to the Otis Elevator Co., he told The New York Times in 2002. A more modern private elevator runs there today.
Domb’s family owns Empire Hotel Group, which his father, Sam, founded, and which owns the Lucerne Hotel on West 79th Street at Amsterdam Avenue. The Lucerne became a temporary homeless shelter in July 2020, drawing pushback from some neighbors, and reopened as a hotel the following fall after its last shelter residents moved out.
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