Herbert N. Straus House

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The Herbert N. Straus House is a large town house at 9 East 71st Street, on the north side in the middle of the block just east of Fifth Avenue in the Upper East Side neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The exterior was designed by Gilded Age architect Horace Trumbauer and completed in 1933. Work on the interior was abandoned after Straus's death and would not be fully redesigned until 1995. The size of the house was believed to be 21,000 square feet (2,000 m2) in the late 1980s, and by 2003 had been enlarged to 51,000 square feet (4,700 m2), spread over nine floors. A 15-foot-high (4.6 m) oak door and large arched windows are distinctive features of the limestone exterior. A heated sidewalk is located in front of the house. Vicky Ward in 2003 described the house as "the crown jewel of the city's residential town houses ... it sits on—or, rather, commands—the block of 71st Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues. Almost ludicrously out of proportion with its four...

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