A Look Inside the Montessori Mansion

A month ago we noticed the building at 105 8th Avenue, which had been a Montessori School until it abruptly closed this past summer, was up for sale (or available to rent). Well, the property was listed by Halstead for $25 million last week, and now the Wall Street Journal takes a look inside the grand space.

The 10,000-square-foot mansion has three floors and a basement, but also some things that new owners may want to remove, including “scores of child-size desks and chairs, posters and artwork and even an above-ground swimming pool.”

The WSJ adds that it was “built for the founders of M. & J. Tracy, a company that operated tugboats, barges and other vessels in New York harbor, and continued to be occupied by members of the family through at least 1940,” and that the asking price is more than 250 times its last sale price of $95,000 in 1969.

Whether it can fetch that price is another matter. The highest price a home has gotten in our borough was the former 11-bedroom Brooklyn Heights residence of Truman Capote, which sold in March for $12.5 million. What do you think it might sell for?

Interior photo via Halstead