Ronsons Are One Step Closer to Recreating Gilded Age Fifth Avenue Manse
Roman Abramovich tried to buy the Upper East Side manse, but the $75 million deal fell through
Berwind Mansion
How an Upstart From Philadelphia Built the Most Resilient of the Robber Baron Estates
For all their solidity—their block-swallowing footprints and formidable frontage, slate-hooded turrets and iron-fanged fences—the mansions built on Fifth Avenue during the Gilded Age proved, within a few decades of construction, to be something like real estate equivalents of dinosaurs, behemoths unable to survive rapid shifts in climate.
So Much for the Super Mansion! Roman Abramovich Has a Landmarks Problem
The townhouses at 11, 13 and 15 E. 75th Street, which are of varying heights and facades, do not lend themselves to the "mega mansion" the New York Post claimed last week Roman Abramovich is planning to build, being located, rather inconveniently, in the Upper East Side historic district.
