Upper West Side Mansion Could Fetch $16 Million in Auction

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — An 11,000-square-foot Upper West Side mansion with 18 rooms and four outdoor terraces is set to hit the auction block this month.

The Kleeberg Residence — located on Riverside Drive between West 72nd and 73rd streets — is expected to fetch $13 million to $16 million during a Dec. 20 auction, according to a listing from Concierge Auctions. The five-story home features "gilded age opulence," eight bedrooms and nine bathrooms, according to the listing.

The home was designed by in the French Renaissance Revival style by renowned "society architect" Charles Pierrepont H. Gilbert. Some of the building's luxury amenities include a spa and gym, an indoor resistance pool, nine gas fireplaces, an elevator, a home office and a modern chef's kitchen with stainless steel counters.

The building is being put up for auction due to the owner's inability to sell the home on the open market and an impending foreclosure, reported the Wall Street Journal. The current owner, Regina Kislin, bought the home in 1996 for $2.6 million and converted it from five apartments into a single-family home, according to the report.

Now she's facing a foreclosure on a $4 million mortgage for the home, the Journal Reported.

“It is a beautiful property,” Kislin's lawyer Jeffrey Dannenberg told the Journal, “and she needs to move on with her life.”

Photo by Google maps street view Sept. 2016