116 E 68TH Street #8B

Wonderful for entertaining, this classic eight room home has a graceful entrance foyer opening onto an immense forty-eight foot expanse of living room and formal dining room. There are enormous casement windows and a wood-burning fireplace with marble mantle. Five south-facing rooms have sunny garden exposures. Each of the three well-proportioned bedrooms has a bath en suite. The apartment is in move-in-condition, entirely rewired and has six through-wall air conditioners. A huge pantry leads to a traditional kitchen with white wood cabinetry, a new Sub-Zero refrigerator and a Viking stove. The large kitchen has both a dining area and a sitting room. Off the kitchen, there is a powder room, washer/dryer, and an over-sized staff room or fourth bedroom. This sophisticated home, steps off Park Avenue, is in a prime, highly-serviced prewar building known as Millan House. Built by John D. Rockefeller in 1931, Millan House consists of two separate buildings connected by a two-level Italianate interior garden courtyard, with fountain and seating areas. Designed by architect Andrew J. Thomas with 57 apartments, the buildings are of general Romanesque character and covered with unique carved animal ornamentation. Pied-a-terre purchases are welcome.