150 Central Park South

$5,250,000

2 beds · 2 baths · Co-op, 1940

Maintenance $7,271/mo

The Record

The windows are set in deep reveals. Herringbone parquet runs through the bedrooms. The eat-in kitchen is 13 feet 8 by 21 feet 1, with a terracotta hexagon floor, a window over the park and a marble ledge beneath it. The primary bedroom is 16 feet 6 by 17 feet 1 with its own bath; the second, 15 by 18 feet 8, has built-in shelving on either side of its window. Five rooms, two bedrooms, two full bathrooms. No source publishes a square footage, so none is given here.

150 Central Park South is the Hampshire House. A. Rollin Caughey and William F. Evans Jr. drew it, the H. K. Ferguson Company of Cleveland started building it in January 1931, and six months later the Ferguson company walked away. The tower stood derelict above the park until 1938. Stern, Gilmartin and Mellins called it Manhattan's monument to frenzied finance. The city dates the finished building to 1940. It opened as a hotel and it is a cooperative now. Thirty-six floors, 197 apartments on the city's count, 307,549 square feet on a lot a hundred and ten feet wide, under a steep green copper mansard with twin chimneys. It is not a landmark and it is not in a historic district.

Subletting is permitted after two years of ownership, one year minimum and three years maximum, with a fifteen per cent fee to the co-op. Pied-a-terre use is permitted and pets are allowed. The building has six elevators, a full-time doorman and a concierge, a gym and a spa, and the listing adds a courtesy car and optional housekeeping.

Floor plan: yes

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Details

Building

Hampshire House, a 36-storey pre-war cooperative on the south side of Central Park South between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, under a steep green copper mansard with twin chimneys. Begun in January 1931 by the H. K. Ferguson Company of Cleveland to designs by A. Rollin Caughey and William F. Evans Jr., abandoned six months later and left derelict until 1938; the city dates the finished building to 1940. Full-time doorman and concierge, six elevators, gym, spa, bike room, common storage, laundry; the listing adds a courtesy car and optional housekeeping. Pets allowed, pied-a-terre allowed, subletting allowed after two years. Taxes are inside the maintenance; tax deductibility 29%; there is a flip tax.

Listed by:

Ante Jakic and Grigor Licul, Compass

Architecture:

Architecture: A. Rollin Caughey and William F. Evans Jr., 1931-1940

Architect, with William F. Evans Jr., of 150 Central Park South. Filed as Caughey & Evans. The partnership's name is on every secondary source for the building; see 'unverified' for what is not yet traced to a primary filing.:

A. Rollin Caughey

Architect, with A. Rollin Caughey, of 150 Central Park South.:

William F. Evans Jr.

The developer. Started construction in January 1931 and abandoned the building six months later; it stood derelict until 1938. Named first-party by CityRealty's building review. Not given a credit line — a developer who walked is a fact for the write-up, not a credit.:

H. K. Ferguson Company, Cleveland

Interior designer. Credited by secondary sources with the Hampshire House's original public rooms — the first woman to be handed a building of this scale in New York. Her work is in the lobby and the old hotel spaces, NOT in apartment 2204. Do not attach her to this apartment.:

Dorothy Draper (1889-1969)

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