This Extravagant UES Mansion Has A Pool, Two Saunas And A Theater

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — An Upper East Side mansion originally built for a nineteenth century silk trader is back on the market for a whopping $88 million, according to Thursday Realtor.com listing.

Billionaire and CEO of Virtu Financial, Vincent Viola, has re-listed his six-story townhouse at 12 East 69th Street. Viola bought the 19-room, 40-foot-wide mansion back in 2005 for a mere $20 million, property records show. The 20,000-square-foot house was listed for a $113 million in 2013, but struggled to find a buyer.

Originally commissioned in 1883 for a silk trader, the mansion between Madison and Fifth avenues was transformed into its current style that rivals a fairytale castle in 1913 by architect William Welles Bosworth, who built the Rockefeller family estate in Westchester and helmed a restoration project for the Palace of Versailles in France.

Nestled on a treelined block, the grandiose building features an entry hall that opens up to a 28.5-foot-high rotunda to the third floor. A sprawling great room includes French doors that open onto Juliette balconies and a hidden hallway off the main entry way opens into a library.

A formal dinning room on the third floor can accommodate more than 40 guests and a massive kitchen includes chef-quality appliances. The mansion features two bedrooms, a massive master bedroom suite with a sitting room, two full baths, two dressing rooms and a panic room.

To top it all off, the mansion also includes a red velvet 12-seat movie theater, a saltwater swimming pool, two saunas, an elevator and even a heated sidewalk for automatic snow removal.

Photos courtesy of Realtor.com