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Imagine that you're eating your leftover chicken dinner in the same place where Wild Turkey bourbon was stored, or where New Yorkers went to get their first telephones in the early 20th century.
If you live in one of New York City's landmarked buildings - of which there are more than one thousand, according to the real estate listings site StreetEasy - your domestic routine takes place in the setting of a piece of New York history. From the original New York Telephone Company Building to the former Wild Turkey warehouse and a bank that opened in 1913, here are some of the city's most beautiful and unique landmarked buildings that you can live in:
Brooklyn Trust Company Building
138 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn Heights
Talk about old money - the Brooklyn Trust Company Building, which was converted to condos in 2015, was originally a Chase Bank. The ground floor of the building, first constructed in 1913, is still a bank, and now has 12 condos in the five stories above it.
The structure was landmarked twice, first in 1996 by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. In 2009, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Stahl Organization, the conversion's developer, preserved the building's original facade and several of the residences have original wood-burning fireplaces.
"Architect Barry Rice updated this historic landmark for 21st-century living by creating just 12 generous, open-plan apartments which combine the scale and comfort of a Manhattan loft with the intimacy of a townhouse," said Roger Fortune, vice president of The Stahl Organization. Five condos were for sale in the building recently, ranging in price from $3.25 million to $4.2 million.
Austin Nichols House
184 Kent Ave., Williamsburg
The Austin Nichols House is the ideal location for lovers of history and whiskey. The building was originally designed by Cass Gilbert, whose other projects included the Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway, and was built for Austin, Nichols. & Co., the grocer...