If you can pay back the value for these Manhattan properties, which have ties to one particular of the nation’s greatest authors, you can connect with on your own the Beast of Eden.
A pair of Manhattan townhouses wherever John Steinbeck when lived are up for sale for a combined $18 million.
Found on East 78th Street, the residences are also readily available to invest in separately, at $8.95 million apiece.
Steinbeck, who gained a Nobel Prize in literature in 1962 — six many years just before his dying — lived in one of the townhomes when renting out the other.
Known for his get the job done in “Of Mice and Gentlemen,” “The Grapes of Wrath,” and notably the gripping “East of Eden,” Steinbeck, a native of California, handed away at the age of 66 in December 1968.
In accordance to the listing, Steinbeck owned the properties concerning 1946 and 1948.
Both equally properties have been owned by the exact family members for the last 55 decades.
Standing four tales just about every, the purple brick townhouses each arrive with four bedrooms and operate approximately 3,000 square toes each and every.
1 of the two townhouses has been renovated with contemporary touches and finishes. The other is described as having “old-university charm,” with a vintage layout that capabilities tall ceilings, woodburning fireplaces and a sculptural staircase. It also has an elevator servicing each and every floor.
Mixed, they also have extra than 2,000 sq. ft of out of doors place.
Elizabeth Sahlman, Meredith Verona, Becca Schreiber and Lorand Kovacs of Corcoran maintain the listing.
“It is really exceptional that you can have two residences that are properly aligned and can be joined and be a person property and have an nearly [60 foot by 40 foot backyard that spans the width of the property] and on a attractive townhouse block,” Sahlman informed Mansion World. “And also that it was when inhabited by John Steinbeck.”
“It’s proper in the center of every thing: the ideal marketplaces, all transportation, you are close to Central Park, you have obtained a garage suitable across the avenue,” Verona added. “The ease issue is big and it is a extremely really tree-lined road.”
Steinbeck’s last residence was on the 34th floor of a significant-increase at 190 E. 72nd St., which went up for sale in 2018 — and even integrated his old desk.
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