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House at 49 East 80th Street
49 East 80th Street (left)
49 East 80th Street is located in Manhattan
49 East 80th Street
Location within Manhattan
49 East 80th Street is located in New York City
49 East 80th Street
Location within New York City
49 East 80th Street is located in New York
49 East 80th Street
Location within New York
49 East 80th Street is located in the United States
49 East 80th Street
Location within the United States
Location49 E 80th St., Manhattan, New York, US
Coordinates40°46′44″N 73°57′40″W / 40.77889°N 73.96111°W / 40.77889; -73.96111 (House at 49 East 80th Street)
Area2,554 ft2 (237.3 m2)
ArchitectHarry Allan Jacobs
Architectural styleArt Deco
NRHP reference No.07001193[1]
NYSRHP No.06101.016200
Significant dates
Added to NRHP2007-11-15
Designated NYSRHP2007-09-27[2]

49 East 80th Street is a residence on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, US. Designed in the Art Deco style by Harry Allan Jacobs for the banker Lionello Perera, the house was built in 1930. The main elevation of the facade is made of multi-colored stone and brick, while the rear is made of brick. The house spans five stories, plus a basement, and has five bathrooms and eight bedrooms across nearly 9,200 square feet (850 m2). The house was used by banker Walter E. Sachs after Perera's death in 1942. Sachs sold the house in 1970 to actress Barbra Streisand, and it was owned by real-estate magnate Michael T. Cohen between 1980 and 2025.

Description

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49 East 80th Street is a residence on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, US.[3][4] The building occupies a rectangular 2,554-square-foot (237.3 m2) land lot on the north side of the street, with a frontage measuring 25 feet (7.6 m) wide and a depth extending 102 feet (31 m) into the block. It is one block north of the New York Society Library.[5] The mansion was designed in the Art Deco style by Harry Allan Jacobs for the banker Lionello Perera.[3][6]

Exterior

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The main elevation of the facade, on 80th Street, is made of multi-colored stone on the ground floor and plain brick on the upper stories. The first story has a recessed entrance in its leftmost (western) bay with a metal alloy gate,[7] decorated with low reliefs.[3] The entrance is capped by a cast stone band with abstract zigzags, and a rhombus motif bearing the address number "49". The first story's center bay has a metal casement window, and the eastern bay has a garage door.[7] When built, the eastern bay originally had a front kitchen space.[7][8] Spanning the facade are soldier courses of bricks, laid at a diagonal with their long (stretcher) faces oriented vertically.[3] On the second story is a single casement window, while the third and fourth stories contain two casements, each with four lights (panes). Above the windows on these stories are decorative brick courses and pyramidal corbels. The fifth story is designed as a windowless attic.[7]

The rear elevation has a five-story brick facade. At the ground floor is a raised terrace with a French door, awning, and garden steps. The upper floors include large casement windows; the second story has one casement window with French doors, while the other stories have two casement windows apiece. These windows open onto connected fire escapes overlooking a landscaped garden.[9]

Interior

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The house spans five stories, plus a basement, and has five bathrooms and eight bedrooms.[4] The interior covers nearly 9,200 square feet (850 m2)[10] and was described in The New York Times as having originally been decorated in a "severe" style.[8] When built, the house had 20 rooms in total, including a raised "English basement".[8]

The first story has an octagonal entrance vestibule with matching mirror-image terrazzo floor and plaster ceiling designs. A doorway, with a transom of leaded glass, leads to the front hall, where a curving staircase with a metal railing and an elevator lead to the upper stories. The rear of the first floor has a dining room, which contains the French doors to the garden, along with a metal Art Deco fireplace mantel with symmetrical leaf fronds.[9] A kitchen connects with the dining room.[11] The original kitchen was in the front of the house[8] but has been replaced by the garage.[11]

The second floor has a grand sitting room at the front, illuminated by the large casement window. It has decorative pilasters topped by Art Deco capitals, and a fireplace with classically-inspired paneled pilasters and abstract geometric ornamentation. The second floor also includes a rear library with paneled walls, a plaster ceiling, and a fireplace, illuminated by the casement window overlooking the garden.[12] The bedrooms on the third and fourth stories have similar casement windows to the sitting room, and they also have decorative pilasters beneath flat architraves. The fifth floor, originally a windowless attic story, is used as a kitchen and has exposed ceiling beams and a skylight.[12] Jacobs designed the art deco sconces and chandeliers that were installed throughout the house.[13]

History

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Facade (mid 1930s)

Lionello Perera (1871–1942) was an Italian-born American banker.[14][15] He immigrated to the US in 1894, becoming a successful banker over the next three decades, and in 1928 his firm merged with Bank of America.[16] The next year, Perera, his wife Carolyn, and their family hired Harry Allan Jacobs to design them a house on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.[17][8] The Perera House was one of four single-family houses in Manhattan for which plans were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings in 1929; two of the other three houses were also located on 80th Street.[8]

Carolyn was involved in many Italian cultural and welfare organizations, as well as musical groups.[17] As such, she often hosted many events for these groups.[18] During the Pereras' ownership, the house hosted events such as a reception for their son Lionel Jr.,[19] displays of Carolyn's spring plantings,[20] and teatime events and receptions.[18][21] Perera died in 1942, and banker Walter E. Sachs, the descendant of a founder of the banking firm Goldman Sachs, moved into the house.[22][6] The house was initially leased out in 1943;[23] it was purchased outright the next year.[18][24] Sachs and his wife Mary Williamson Sachs lived in the house until they divorced, after which Mary kept the house until February 1970.[13]

The house was sold at a foreclosure auction in January 1970 after Mary failed to make mortgage or tax payments on the property.[25] Actress Barbra Streisand bought the house for $420,000;[10][6] this amount included $295,000 for the property itself, along with back taxes.[25] At the time, Streisand said she had been rejected for membership in two nearby housing cooperatives because of her occupation. Streisand said she "would much rather have the 17 rooms horizontally than vertically" but that she did not have much choice than to buy a multistory house.[6] Streisand hosted a reception for US Congress member Bella Abzug, attended by 3,000 people, shortly after moving in.[18][13] By May 1970, Streisand was renovating the house and looking to lease it out.[25] Real-estate magnate Michael T. Cohen bought the house in 1980 for $4 million.[26] By 2024, Cohen had listed the building for sale for $18 million;[4][26] it was sold the next year for $15.9 million.[10][27]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. November 7, 2014. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d Gray, Christopher (March 7, 2004). "Streetscapes/East 80th Street From Madison to Park Avenues; A Block With Rare Windows and Unusual Statues". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
  4. ^ a b c Crowley, Kinsey (July 6, 2024). "Barbra Streisand's former NYC mansion listed for $18m: Photos". USA TODAY. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
  5. ^ "49 East 80 Street, 10075". New York City Department of City Planning. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d Reif, Rita (June 11, 1970). "Barbra prefers apartments: $420,000 house is a 'compromise'". The Globe and Mail. p. W8. ISSN 0319-0714. ProQuest 1242125415.
  7. ^ a b c d National Park Service 2007, p. 3.
  8. ^ a b c d e f "Manhattan Private Home Plans at Low Record; Building Bureau Reports Only Four Designs Filed for Individual Dwellings Last Year". The New York Times. February 9, 1930. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 11, 2026.
  9. ^ a b National Park Service 2007, p. 4.
  10. ^ a b c Wall, Sheridan (August 25, 2025). "Barbra Streisand's former UES home tops Manhattan's luxury contracts". The Real Deal. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
  11. ^ a b National Park Service 2007, pp. 3–4.
  12. ^ a b National Park Service 2007, p. 5.
  13. ^ a b c Reif, Rita (June 5, 1970). "Barbra Streisand's 5‐Story Compromise". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 11, 2026.
  14. ^ Mantoan, Diego (September 6, 2022). Lionello Perera: An Italian Banker and Patron in New York. Vernon Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-64889-510-4. Retrieved August 11, 2026.
  15. ^ "Bollettino degli Antichi Studenti". Bollettino degli Antichi Studenti (in Italian). 1 (January). Venice: Ca' Foscari. 1899.
  16. ^ National Park Service 2007, p. 7.
  17. ^ a b National Park Service 2007, p. 8.
  18. ^ a b c d National Park Service 2007, p. 13.
  19. ^ "L.C. Pereras Jr. Give Reception and Dance; Afternoon Party Is Held at the Home of Host's Parents on East Eightieth Street". The New York Times. March 2, 1936. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 11, 2026.
  20. ^ "2-Day Tour Planned of Gardens in City; Visits to Bird Sanctuary and Corn Patch Among Features of Women Voters' Benefit". The New York Times. May 9, 1937. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 11, 2026.
  21. ^ See, for example:
  22. ^ National Park Service 2007, p. 14.
  23. ^ "East Side Home Leased With Purchase Option". The New York Times. January 15, 1943. p. 31. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 106551165.
  24. ^ "Broadway Loft Buildings Sold To D. S. Meister: Operator Purchases Four 12-Story Structures From Central Savings Bank". New York Herald Tribune. February 24, 1944. p. 27. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 1291212792.
  25. ^ a b c "News of the Realty Trade: New Plants Due in Jersey". The New York Times. May 3, 1970. p. 308. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 118981584.
  26. ^ a b Hughes, C. J. (August 25, 2025). "Williams Equities' Michael Cohen sells East 80th Street townhouse once owned by Barbra Streisand". Crain's New York Business. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
  27. ^ Levingston, Miranda (August 27, 2025). "Barbra Streisand's Upper East Side Townhouse Sells For $15.9M". Patch. Retrieved August 5, 2026.

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