In New York’s Harlem neighborhood, a largely intact Romanesque Revival house built by circus co-founder James Bailey is on the market for the first time since 1951, with an asking price of $10 million.
On St. Nicholas Place and 150th Street, at the northern end of Manhattan, the freestanding stone house measures 12,000 square feet on a 62.5-by-100-foot lot.
Bailey, who was the business-minded half of Barnum & Bailey Circus, built the house in 1888, a few years after combining operations with P.T. Barnum’s “Greatest Show on Earth.” A cousin of Louis Comfort Tiffany designed the home’s numerous stained-glass windows, most of which remain intact. The home’s interior is paneled in hand-carved wood.
Marguerite Blake, now 87 years old, and her late husband, Warren, a New York police detective, bought the house in 1951. Ms. Blake, a former funeral home director, and a niece live in the house, which needs renovations.
We wonder what would happened if the city purchased the property as a historic landmark and used purchase to drive tourism to northen Manhattan?
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