Facebook Co-Founder Buys Three West Village Mansions to Create Mega-Mansion

When you are responsible for the dawning of Napster and Facebook, one Greenwich Village mansion simply just isn't enough. Instead, you need to build a mega-mansion out of three mansions.

Sean Parker, co-founder of Facebook and creator of Napster, bought three homes on West 10th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues to make one massive mansion, the New York Post reported. Parker bought the carriage house at 40 W. 10th Street for $20 million in 2010, then he bought 38 W. 10th Street in May for $16.5 million, and sources told the Post he bought 36 W. 10th Street for around $22 million recently, even before it was listed.

In combining the three mansions, Parker has to follow rules of the Landmarks Preservation Commission that prohibit him from altering the exteriors of the buildings because they are designated historic landmarks. His first townhouse is a Beaux Arts house built in 1899, and the two adjacent townhouses he purchased more recently are Anglo-Italianate, built in 1900.

Parker's colleague, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, became Parker's neighbor in January when he bought a $23.5 million West Village townhouse after selling his $8.5 million Soho pad.

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