The Most Expensive House.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 25, 19 June 1912, Page 47

The Most Expensive House.

LA house with a rental value of £60,000 a year has just been erected in the exclusive society quarters of Fifthavenue, near Mr. Andrew Carnegie’* mansion, and it is believed to be the most expensive residential building in the world (says a New York correspondent). It is an apartment house, the first one to be built in the upper Fifthavenue district, facing Central Park, and the enormous rental will be liorne by eighteen tenants, all the building will

"house Each room in the house will average £204 a’year rent. The building has only just been finished, but nearly all the apartments have been taken. Among the tenants are Levi I* Murton, ex-vice-president of the United States, United States Senator Root, and United States Senator tluggenheim. Only millionaires will be able to afford the luxury of living in the apartments. Senator Root pays the highest rental— £5OOO a year. The building is divided into simplex and duplex apartments, the for mer being apartments of one floor only, and the latter occupying two floors con neeted by private stairways. The house has all the features of a modern private dwelling, with fine marble ami wood lavishly used in all the apartments. Each kitchen is provided with a waste inciner

ator, which makes handling of refuse un necessary, and in every laundry are electric drying and ironing equipmentße frigeration is supplied by a plant in the basement of the building, iee being made on the premises. Tlie rental, it is announced, includes the washing of windows and the cleaning of all rooms by the vacuum process.