The Manhattan home of the late Anne Eisenhower, an interior designer and the granddaughter of former president
Dwight D. Eisenhower,
has hit the market for $5.75 million.
The Upper East Side co-op, located on Park Avenue between East 72nd and East 73rd streets, has a “prime corner location, on one of the most beautiful tree-lined residential boulevards of Manhattan,” according to John Burger, a Brown Harris Stevens agent who listed the apartment on Friday.
“The proportions and scale of the rooms, combined with its 10-foot ceilings, puts it in a league of its own,” Mr. Burger said in an email. “It gives you the feeling of an elegant and gracious home, the moment you step into the gallery.”
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Eisenhower, who died in 2022 at the age of 73, purchased the unit in 2001 for $3 million, The Observer reported at the time. She was an accomplished designer, so it’s not a surprise that she left her stamp on the residence over the 20-plus years she owned it.
“My mother was an incredibly talented designer with impeccable taste and an eye for every detail,” said Adriana Echavarria, Eisenhower’s daughter and the executor of the estate. “Her projects were often transforming old and neglected spaces into their well-deserved grandness and beauty.”
Indeed, the eight-room Park Avenue apartment was “totally run down” when Eisenhower bought it, Ms. Echavarria said.
“She turned it into an amazingly beautiful home of exquisite taste and style,” Ms. Echavarria explained. “She always said that what was behind the walls was as important as the decoration on the other side. She had a knack for restoring, perfecting and preserving the architectural uniqueness of a space, while also creating a grand—yet warm—home for herself and her family.”
For example, Eisenhower loved the sun-filled kitchen and hosted many dinners, her daughter noted.
“She made sure to always have her tables impeccably set and festive, and almost always by candlelight,” according to Ms. Echavarria. “Lighting, she would say, was everything.”
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Eisenhower also converted the smallest of the three bedrooms into a playroom and bedroom for her grandchildren.
“My mother adored her two grandchildren, Camila and Nico, and probably one of the fondest memories I have of the apartment is of when my twins would spend the night with her,” Ms. Echavarria said. “My mom made the smaller third bedroom into their playroom and bedroom. They loved going to Grandma’s.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th president of the U.S. and the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe during WWII, as well as a former president of New York’s Columbia University. He died in 1969 at the age of 78.
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