After less than six weeks on the market, the final home of legendary artist, designer, and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt is in contract, the New York Post reports. Located on the Upper East Side’s tree-lined Beekman Place, the three bedroom, two and a half bathroom apartment is located within a gorgeous pre-war building that was constructed in 1930. The space hasn’t been renovated since 1997, when the multi-hyphenate first moved in, so its new owners will have to put in some much needed TLC, along with $4,311 in maintenance fees each month. It was last asking for $1.12 million.
While some of the building’s units have been completely gutted and modernized, between the exposed beams, arched doorways, and wood burning fireplace, Vanderbilt’s former space still has plenty of its original character. She was an elaborate decorator, sometimes worryingly so, according to her son, Anderson Cooper. “She had a storage unit which she had never been to and I used to worry about it,” he told the New York Times, regarding her reserve of furniture and decor, “about the waste of money. I imagined a furnace burning money, like in the closing scene of Citizen Kane.” Needless to say, the new owners have big shoes to fill when it comes time to decorate.
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Vanderbilt’s family, beginning with her great-great-grandfather Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, were known for their beautiful luxury homes. Among the most notable in the life of Gloria herself is her Upper East Side childhood home, a 12 bedroom, 11 full bathroom townhouse, known as the Vanderbilt Mansion. The sprawling 18,504-square-foot home was last on the market in 2019 for $50 million.
