The last of three Fifth Avenue apartments owned by the late, eccentric copper heiress Huguette Clark is now for sale for $7.2 million.
It’s a little smaller, though, than it used to be.
Financier Frederick Iseman, who last year paid $22.5 million for one of Clark’s eighth-floor apartments, also purchased one of this eighth floor unit’s bedrooms, also owned by Clark, to add to his sprawling home in the building at 907 Fifth Ave.
Iseman bought in the building for $22.5 million after the co-op board blocked Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani’s bid to buy both eighth floor units. Sources inside the building told The Post at the time that the co-op board was vehemently opposed to approving a foreign political leader who came with gun-toting bodyguards, 15 children, multiple wives and diplomatic immunity.
Clark died in 2011 at the age of 104. Although she had not lived in the apartments for decades, they were outdated but clean, maintained by staff and showcasing her possessions including a spooky doll collection.
The current unit for sale on the eighth floor was asking $12 million for five months of last year before it was pulled off the market.
It was re-listed on April 5, minus Iseman’s purchased segment of it, for $7.2 million.
“We were waiting for the right time to re-list it,” an inside source told the Post. “This will be a spectacular apartment for someone to buy.”
“It was the right time to put the apartment back on the market,” the source added. “It’s a great property. There’s lots of space. It’s big and grand. Someone could make something beautiful out of it.”
The two bedroom, two bath, ten room apartment includes a library and a windowed eat-in kitchen. Maintenance is $5602 a month.
The co-op is in a 1915 Italian palazzo style building with a limestone façade designed by J.E.R. Caprtenter, and it won the 1916 gold medal of the American Institute of Architects.
The Brown Harris Stevens listing describes the apartment as elegant, facing north onto 72nd St. The windowed gallery is 47 by 13 feet, with herringbone floors and opens to the 29 foot corner living room. There’s also a library, reception room and formal dining room – along with giant windows, 10.5 foot ceilings and enough wall space to be a “art collector’s dream,” according to the listing.
In the early 20th century, 907 Fifth residents included Herbert L. Pratt, a Standard Oil exec, and William C. Durant, the founder of General Motors.