
Source: IMDb
UPDATE 4/22/14: Spike Lee has relisted his town house with Brown Harris Stevens for $28.5 million.
ORIGINAL: The director of many of the most daring and controversial movies that confront race in America is seeking $32 million for his East Side town home, which is anything but ordinary.
Spike Lee’s home, known as Hatch House, is an 8,292-square-foot building that comes with the kind of space, styling and pedigree that helps substantiate its list price.
The Spanish-style stucco home was designed by architect Frederick J. Sterner and completed in 1920, then owned over the years by a series of high-profile tenants.
William Vanderbilt originally sold land for the home for $85,000 as a wedding gift for his daughter, Barbara Rutherford. Broadway producer and Globe Theatre owner Charles B. Dillingham bought it in 1921.
A Wright brothers collaborator and aeronautical engineer, Charles Lanier Lawrance, who later aided Amelia Earhart in flights, bought the place in 1924.
Later, burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee was the owner, known to throw wild parties at the residence. She lived there until 1970.
Lee and his wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, purchased the residence in 1998 for $16.6 million, taking it off the hands of artist Jasper Johns. Over the years, the couple and their two children filled the 32-foot-wide townhouse with art and rugs.
The 3-story building has 5 bedrooms, original-detail fireplaces and an interior courtyard – a nice amenity to have in the heart of New York City. There’s a library, staff quarters and an elevator.
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