Eleanor Roosevelt's Former UES Home Hits Market At $13.5 M

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A stately Upper East Side townhouse where First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt lived for five years has hit the market at an asking price of $13.5 million, according to real estate listings.

Roosevelt lived in the four-bedroom, five-bathroom home on East 62nd Street between Second and Third Avenues from 1953 to 1958, according to listings on realtor.com. The first lady hosted people such as Indira Gandhi, Adlai Stevenson and President John F. Kennedy while she lived in the home, according to the listing.

The five-story, 5,200-square-foot townhouse was recently renovated to feature modern luxuries to complement historic architectural details such as its six marble fireplaces, classical stone columns, the red brick facade and a spiral mahogany staircase that anchors the home.

For outdoor lovers, the home boasts an additional 1,770-square feet of exterior space including a garden and a rooftop dog run.

The East 62nd Street home has been active on the real estate market for the better part of the 21st Century. The home was sold for $10.4 million in 2004 to a man named Roger Rechler and again in 2011 from Rechler's estate to an entity known as Root Tree 211 LLC. In 2016, the property was listed at $16 million and has since seen its price cut down to the $13.5 million in relistings, according to realtor.com.

The townhouse shares the distinction of being Roosevelt's former home with another Upper East Side property that recently hit the market. The East 74th Street home where Roosevelt lived out her last days between 1959 and 1962 was listed for sale in Septmeber.

Roosevelt served as the first lady of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945. A native New Yorker, Roosevelt was born in 1884 and died in 1962. Roosevelt revolutionized the role of first lady, often making appearances and giving speeches in the place of her husband, who suffered am illness that left him paralyzed from the waist down.

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