Schinasi House

The Schinasi House (also Schinasi Residence or Schinasi Mansion) is a residence at 351 Riverside Drive, at the northeast corner with West 107th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It was built in 1907 for the tobacco baron Morris Schinasi. Completed in 1909, it was designed in the neo–French Renaissance style by William Tuthill. It is one of the last remaining detached single-family houses in Manhattan that is still used as a residence. The house has a marble facade with decorations such as balconies, oriel windows, and dormers. The 12,000-square-foot (1, 100 m2) interior was originally subdivided into 35 rooms. The structure is designated a New York City Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Schinasi House was used as a single-family home for its first two decades. After Schinasi died in 1928, his heirs sold the house to Semple Realty Corporation in 1930 for use as a girls' finishing school. In 1960, it was sold to Columbia University for use as a daycare center; it was also used for classrooms during the mid-1960s. Hans Smit, a Columbia University law professor, bought it in 1979 and conducted an extensive interior restoration. Since 2013, it has been owned by Mark Schwartz, a Goldman Sachs executive.

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