See Inside David Rockefeller's Upper East Side Townhouse
The nearly 10,000-square-foot home recently sold for $20 million.
Legendary philanthropist David Rockefeller, who died last year, raised his six children in a double-wide townhouse on a quiet block of the Upper East Side.
That townhouse, at 146 East 65th Street, was listed by Brown Harris Stevens for $32.5 million last June and subsequently reduced in price to $27 million in October. On April 2, a buyer who the Wall Street Journal reports was Doug Band—a longtime advisor to President Bill Clinton and founder of the advisory firm Teneo Holdings—paid $20 million to acquire it. (The buyer bought the property through a limited-liability company, 146 East 65, LLC.)
Rockefeller, a former chairman and CEO of the Chase Manhattan Corporation—and grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller—bought the home with his wife, Peggy, in 1948.
The nearly 10,000-square-foot Colonial Revival property was originally built in 1924, and Rockefeller tapped architect Mott Schmidt to renovate its interior in the 1970s. It comprises five floors, including a basement, and includes 2,958 square feet of outdoor space. Scroll down to see inside.
The house on East 65th Street in Manhattan was Peggy and David Rockefeller's primary residence for 69 years.
It's on a quiet block between Lexington and Third Avenues.
It's 40 feet wide.
"When you walk in, you can see through the house right into the garden," Hall F. Willkie, the president of Brown Harris Stevens, told the New York Times. "You don’t even feel like you’re in the city."
The dining room overlooks the 40-foot-wide garden.
"With silver birch trees, mature rhododendrons and trimmed moss between the stones, it provides an oasis of greenery," the listing states.
So does the living room, which is as wide as the house and includes windows facing east and south.
Schmidt also designed houses for Vincent Astor, J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne Morgan, and Mrs. W.K. Vanderbilt.
There are eight full bedrooms and eight full bathrooms.
Plus an additional six smaller staff bedrooms and three half-bathrooms.
There are a total of eight fireplaces.
A domed skylight at the top of the spiral staircase fills the interior with sunlight.
The floorplan shows the five levels, which are all served by an elevator.
The basement includes a temperature-controlled wine vault.
Sam Dangremond is a Contributing Digital Editor at Town & Country, where he covers men's style, cocktails, travel, and the social scene.
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