The William Lescaze house that is considered the first modernist home built in NY, is on the market. The asking price: a cool $4.95 million.
The home at 211 East 48th Street, designed by Swiss-American architect Lescaze as both an office and residential space, is part of a portfolio of three buildings being sold by the William Kaufman Organization. Its facade is all smooth stucco and glass blocks, a material that hadn’t been used in New York previously, and it was a startling addition to the block when it was built in 1934.
