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Jan 26, 2023 · Located at 1009 5th Avenue, the 20,000 square-foot palace is known as the Benjamin N. Duke House. Receiving its namesake from its original owner, a tobacco, textile, and energy tycoon, the home...
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Jan 27, 2023 · Yes, you read that right: $80 million. A listing for The Benjamin N. Duke House, located at 1009 Fifth Avenue across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, calls it “the rarest opportunity to...
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Jan 26, 2023 · If the Benjamin N. Duke House sells for the US$80 million asking price, it stands to be the most expensive townhouse ever sold in Manhattan.
Oct 1, 2015 · In May, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim listed the landmarked Benjamin N. Duke house, a Beaux Arts mansion across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for a whopping $80 million (which landed...
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The sons of tobacco manufacturer Washington Duke, James and Benjamin got their start at the family business in Durham, North Carolina. It quickly became successful and in 1884, James Buchanan Duke moved to New York to open the new offices of Duke and Sons and help expand operations. And expand they did: in 1890, James created the country’s largest ...
The first major Duke land acquisition in the New York area was James’s 1893 purchase of a farm in Somerville, New Jersey. Inspired by the North Carolina farms he grew up on, by the time of his death in 1925 the 2,000-acre property boasted“45 buildings, 9 lakes, 18 miles of roads, 810 acres of woodlands, 464 acres of grassland bird habitat and 1.5 m...
In 1901, Benjamin N. Duke joined his brother in New York, and in the real estate game through the purchase of his mansion at 1009 Fifth Avenue– the very townhouse which fetched an $80 million price tag in early 2023. Benjamin Duke lived at the residence until 1907, when it was purchased by J.B. Duke, who needed a place to live until his Manhattan h...
Mary Semans was the last Duke to lay claim to her grandfather’s mansion. It is currently owned by business magnate Carlos Slim, who previously listed the home in 2015 for $44 million. Constructed in the Beaux-Arts style, the massive townhouse includes“eight bedrooms and 10 bathrooms across seven stories, one grand staircase connecting each story, t...
In 1909, eager to participate in the New York social scene, James B. Dukepurchased the Henry H. Cook mansion located at 1 East 78th Street. Built-in 1878, the original opulent and exquisite mansion was demolished by Duke, who initially intended to remodel the building but then decided to rebuild from the ground up. Architectural historian John Taur...
It would be impossible to sum up the life of heiress, socialite, and philanthropist Doris Dukein one short paragraph. After inheriting her fortune, Doris attempted (with little success) to stay out of the spotlight. By the time she was 30, she had homes in Hawaii (the infamous Shangri La), Newport (Rough Point), New York City (James B. Duke House),...
As Doris Duke was the only child of J.B. Duke and she had none of her own, the Duke lineage has faded. The only remaining heirs to the Duke fortune are Georgia and Walker Patterson Inman, who were expected to inherit nearly $1 billion after the untimely death of their father, Walker Inman (the nephew of Doris Duke) in 2015. As far as Doris Duke’s e...
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Oct 1, 2015 · Earlier this year the landmarked Benjamin N. Duke House was put on the market for $80 million. The historic mansion, once eyed by Lenny Kravitz , according to an ice cream truck vendor, dates...
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The Benjamin N. Duke House, also the Duke–Semans Mansion and the Benjamin N. and Sarah Duke House, is a mansion at 1009 Fifth Avenue, at the southeast corner with 82nd Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
