Real Estate

$4M Forest Hills Home Features Turn-Of-The-Century Leaded Windows

The seven-bedroom Forest Hills Gardens manor just hit the market.

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — A newly-listed estate in Forest Hills Gardens comes with seven bedrooms, turn-of-the-century leaded glass windows, custom woodwork and a "music room."

The $4 million home on Tennis Place was built in 1920 and features classically appointed architectural elements like inlaid wood and marble floors and a coffered ceiling in the living room.

The lucky buyer will also get a roomy master suite with a private terrace, dual walk-in closets and a private dressing room.

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The surrounding neighborhood of Forest Hills Gardens is a private residential community designed by architect Grosvenor Atterbury and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.

Here are some more details about the Tennis Place spot:

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99 Tennis Place, Queens, New York

  • Price: $3,950,000
  • Square Feet: 6,531
  • Bedrooms: 7
  • Bathrooms: 3 Full and 2 Half Baths
  • Features: Set on a quarter acre of landscaped gardens on prestigious Tennis Place, this home boasts over six and a half thousand square feet of interior living space, seven spacious sized Bedrooms, three full and two half Bathrooms. A private semicircular driveway leads up to a grand entrance doorway gracefully framed by rare turn of the century leaded glass windows enclosing the entry vestibule. The formal entry leads into a showcase center hall with a mahogany staircase and marble floors. Classically appointed architectural elements throughout the first floor include original custom woodwork beautifully finished and maintained to perfection, high ceilings, herringbone wood and a coffered ceiling adorning the expansive Living Room and formal Dining Room. The Living Room is warmed by a marble fireplace with carved relief and opens to a sun lit Music Room with windows overlooking the garden. To the rear of the center hall is a step-down Family Room with beamed ceiling that originally served as a Library and Billiard Room. The 28 ft. banquet-sized Dining Room designed to host large gatherings adjoins an immaculate Kitchen and Breakfast Room overlooking the manicured patio and garden. This ambassadorial style residence is conceived perfectly for grand-scale entertaining fully incorporating the serenity of the unparalleled private patio and secluded perimeter gardens. A graceful staircase leads to the second floor of the residence which contains an expansive Master Bedroom Suite with dual walk-in closets, a private dressing room, and a sumptuous spa bath, an attached sitting room or nursery, two additional Bedrooms and an ornate hall bath with a custom designed marble bath. There is a south facing 140 sq. ft. private terrace off the Master Suite and a north facing terrace, approximately 418 sq. ft. spanning the depth of the house off the other two Bedrooms. The private quarters of the house continue with a third floor offering three large Bedrooms, a walk in cedar closet and full Bath. The Lower level of the home has been fully renovated and could serve as a Family Room or Media Room. Additionally there is a separate laundry room and half Bath.

This listing originally appeared on Terrace Sotheby's International Realty.

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