Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow’s former Upper East Side brownstone just hit the market for the first time in 50 years with an asking price of $4.45 million, according to the report. New York Post.
Sinatra lived in the iconic town house from 1963 to 1969, which included a short period before marrying a then 21-year-old Farrow, the period of their brief marriage and shortly after their divorce. The 3,730-square-foot home has remained in the Solomon family since “Ol’ Blue Eyes” himself sold the place to them in 1969.
“He didn’t want to move out, but he wanted to build a garage and he wasn’t allowed to,” said Teimour Solomon, whose parents raised him and his brother in the four-bedroom, four-and-a-half bathroom. abode
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Built in 1872, the 16-foot-wide house is located in New York’s Treadwell Farm Historic District, located along Manhattan’s 61st and 62nd Streets between Third and Second Avenues. Most of the buildings in the residential neighborhood are four-story townhouses built between 1868 and 1875, but they reflect an elegant aesthetic of the 1910s and 1920s, a period when protruding details were removed in the name of “modernization.”
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Despite Sinatra’s push towards contemporary style and the removal of moldings in the interior of the house, original details such as wooden floors, stained glass doors and mantelpieces remain. To let in natural light, the Solomon family opened up the back wall of the first floor, which leads to a backyard paved with flagstone and brick. Solomon said the publication that when Sinatra didn’t show up for the closing, his mother had his lawyer call the entertainer to sing for her as a sign that it was really him, and he obliged.
