Historic Townhouse With Renaissance Garden.

Perched on the highest elevation in Manhattan, the neighborhood feels like a slice of Colonial Williamsburg airlifted into the city. The 1891 townhouse looks at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, George Washington’s headquarters for 1776′s Battle of Harlem Heights and home to the infamous grand horizontal, Madame Jumel. At the time Duke Ellington dubbed it the “The Crown of Sugar Hill,” the historic district was also home to W.E.B. DuBois, Paul Robeson, Count Basie, Lena Horne, Coleman Hawkins, Teddy Wilson, Johnny Hodges and dozens of other Jazz Masters. The self-contained 925 sq foot garden apartment/former antiquarian book shop features a 4000 volume library specializing in Harlem Heights' history - from its roots in Revolution through the jazz-age Renaissance to its very Now now and features a full kitchen and bath. It's 925 sq foot Renaissance Garden has been a favorite with fashion photographers, film directors and wedding planners. The first floor's 12 ft ceilinged parlor, music and dining rooms feature art pertaining to local history, about 3000 volumes of 1st edition largely signed literature, avant-garde and classical art history and the culinary arts. We have hosted sit down dinners for 24, and it comfortably stands 75. The library floor above has two full baths and two collections. Besides the rarest books of the collections and a large LP collection and sound system, the front library features large bay windows with a postcard perfect view of the Morris-Jumel Mansion. The second, more intimate library/study specializes in 18th & 19th c. New York history related to the immediate neighborhood, as do art works liberally distributed about the premises. The sky lit top floor's large Master bedroom's most attractive aspects include a king size Charles Rogers brass bed and the boudoir library housed in oversize French chateau style bookcases. The sky lit master bath showcases an elegant antique slipper tub and shares the rest of the top floor with the resident couturier's atelier, featuring a cutting table, all manner of sewing machines, dress racks, manequins and accoutrements, a smaller bath (largely given over to fabric storage) and a large fashion library. All have been shown to great advantage by Bruce Weber in German Vogue's 'All That Jazz' featuring Jessica Chastain and Omar Sy and was ballast to his film with David Bailey, 'Harlem: A Poetry Lesson'; Amanda Gorman's video 'Learning to Love Through Loss' accompanied her Woman of the Year shoot for Glamour Magazine here; Wes Anderson filmed segments of an aborted documentary on Fran Lebowitz in the garden; Kahlil Joseph filmed part of Aloe Blacc's video, 'I Need A Dollar', in the bookshop. Elle Magazine shot '4 Proud Bookworms on the Personal Significance of Being ‘Well Read’' for Gucci on every floor of the house. Ti The location's been featured in Vogue, Elle, Glamour, The New York Times, The Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, The Amsterdam News, USA Today, The Guardian, BBC, HBO, PBS, Le Monde, Arte TV, the Financial Times and The Independent. Tianna Taylor was here for Air Jordon and Remi Ma for Nike. Our listing's hourly rate applies to our regular business hours to the use of at least 3 floors. The Garden apartment, when available, has a full bath and the Library floor has two full baths. On site tailoring and adjustments, a cutting table, sewing machine, steamer, racks, hangers and mannequins available. Inquire as to pricing.. For preview I can be reached at (212) 928-9525. All amities, Kurt Thometz