THE HEROY HOUSE
262 West 11th street
A RARITY AMONG RARITIES
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 25 YEARS
Elegant and Sprawling 1828 Townhouse
Five Full Levels
Semi-Detached with Horse Walk/Private Alley
Three Exposures on Two Floors
Four exposures on Top Two Floors
Preserved Period Detail Throughout
South-Facing Garden and Terraces
The West Village’s Most Exclusive Block
Versatile and Unusual Layout
An Architect’s Dream Property
$22,500,000
A rarity among rarities on Billionaires’ Row!
To call The Heroy House unique is not an exaggeration. With its combination of versatile space and abundant light, preserved traditional details and room for imagination, landmark location and latitude for contemporary transformation, this townhouse on the most prestigious block of the West Village comes to the market in early April.
The Heroy House is a stately 5-story, 21’-wide brownstone and brick townhouse with a stoop and a rarely-found horse walk/ alleyway offering private access to the south-facing garden oasis. Named after its builder and first occupant, master sashmaker Lavinius C. Heroy, this elegant townhouse offers over 5000 square feet of blank slate for your imagination, though you and your architect will likely be inspired to keep some of its stunning detail as you begin dreaming.
As a semi-detached townhouse with three exposures on all floors and bonus 4th exposures on the top two floors and a skylight over the staircase, the home is more luminous than row homes with only two exposures. This extra light allows for more possibilities, more interior bedrooms and more opportunity for living spaces facing the glowing southern garden.
In addition to its abundant and versatile indoor space, the Heroy House offers expansive outdoor space – a south patio and meditative garden and a roof terrace off the primary bedroom. And, there’s the possibility of a building roof terrace and balconies off the middle floors.
Rich, original details include floor-to-ceiling parlor windows with period moldings, high ceilings on every level, wide-plank floors, exposed beams, exposed brick, original archways and shutters, and signature lintels on the facade.
This is your private invitation to see this rarity among rarities now before the rest of the world has its chance in a few weeks.
Rendering 360s
The visuals shown are renderings and do not represent the actual property. They are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change.
Parlor Floor
Patio / Garden
Top Floor / Fifth Floor
Terrace
Rendering Details
The visuals shown are renderings and do not represent the actual property. They are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change.
Original Details
Rendered Floor Plans
The Neighborhood
Manhattan’s Greenwich Village needs no introduction. The world knows all about its Bohemian History, the jazz and folk music, its monumental social firsts, but what people might not know about are the meandering, tree-lined streets of charming and stately townhouses and the Landmark beauty of rows of elegant facades that characterize the western quadrant, or The West Village.
It is here, among the old world charm of the narrow streets and crooked sidewalks, the towering shade trees, the stoops and carved doorways and lintels, that some of New York City’s most prestigious and desirable, and yes, most expensive, townhouses stand. It is here where New York City’s increasingly rare resource – a townhouse – comes to market, and it is a major event.
“As for New York City, it is a place apart.
There is not its match in any other country in the world.”
― Pearl S. Buck
The Block
When referring to this stretch of West 11th Street between Bleecker and West 4th Streets, we should not call it the block but THE block. It is THE block of fewer than thirty townhouses with the highest concentration of the most prestigious and expensive properties in the West Village and the whole city, so much so that this block has been nicknamed Billionaire’s Row. In keeping with its Landmark designation, THE block quietly boasts all the charm and personality of the centuries-old neighborhood. And yet behind these elegant and timeless facades are where homeowners and their architects have reached for and achieved their dream homes. A townhouse on Billionaires’ Row only comes around once in several years.
The Building
We would like you to see The Heroy House for yourself. Walking up the stoop and stepping inside, you will feel the history – from the master craftsman/sashmaker who built it as a two-story home in 1828 through its boarding house years with famous tenants like a popular French romance novelist and cousin of the world’s first international celebrity Sarah Bernhardt, to its transformation into a larger home in the late 19th or early 20th Century.
Walking through The Heroy House, you will see how it has changed from a humble Federal home into an elegant and grand Victorian townhouse with moldings and wide-plank floors, original shutters on its floor-to-ceiling parlor windows, fireplaces on every floor, and even more windows and light from its three and four exposures. You might even sense as you walk through the private entrance to the home’s horse walk/alleyway, the A-list celebrities and other artist friends of the Hollywood producer who was The Heroy House’s most recent owner who hosted his annual and quite famous holiday Glögg parties.
All through the house and its outdoor spaces, you will feel the true spirit of this home – built with love and working hands and preserved for almost two centuries – ready once again to be transformed into its next iteration: a grand, contemporary home, a rarity among rarities, on Billionaire’s Row.
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