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The initial price for the apartment, an loft type duplex in 27 West 67th Street, known as an artist study building, is $ 4.44 million, according to the listing corridor, Michael Graves or Douglas Elliman Real Estate, who was also a personal friend. Monthly maintenance is $ 7,589.
Mr. Yarrow bought the unit, at Central Park West, near Lincoln Center, in the early 1980s and raised his children, Christopher and Bethany, there. He celebrated group trials in the large double -height height room and organized events and meetings of funds and meetings there with musicians such as Pete Seeger, Harry Belafonte and Neil Sedaka, along with politicians and activists.
“It was a center of music, art and culture and activism,” said Bethany Yarrow, who directs two non -profit environmental groups and is a folk singer. (Christopher Yarrow is a composer). “There was an extraordinary wave of human beings that passed and singing all the songs of the great movements,” he said.
Noel Paul Stookey, part of the trio, also recalls his time there. “The size of the living room was comfortable for the three”, and the testing of its arrangers and bassists, he said in an email, “and at the same time, large enough for the special events that Peter would house, attracting up to 100 people.”
By measuring around 2,500 square feet, the apartment is located on the ninth and tenth floors of the building before the war. There are three bedrooms and three full bathrooms, in addition to an office/lair at home that could become another room.
The unit also comes with a basement storage space and a small “attic” office on the roof where Mr. Yarrow’s personal assistant had worked. (“Once it was used as a sleeping room before the cooperative changed the rules,” Graves said about its past iterations).
The main entrance of the house is at the lower level. A lobby open to the huge room with vaulted ceilings and a firewood fireplace with a carved stone mantle. An extra large window provides a large amount of sunlight, along with panoramic views of the urban landscape.
“You have a floor, so the light is flooded from the north and the south,” said Graves.
Outside the great room, through French doors folded, there is a spacious formal dining room, which ms. Yarrow said that his father had closed and for a while he became a den with his favorite massage chair there.
At the years, Mr. Yarrow made some other changes in the apartment. “My dad did not make many remodeling, it was more like a great restoration,” said Mrs. Yarrow, noting that she had restored the window in the great room and other prewar details such as cast iron sinks, textured walls and plaster roofs. “Hello, I loved the authenticity of that apartment,” he said.
Beyond the dining room there is a kitchen with windows and meals with a brick and pantry roof with barrel vault. The kitchen is equipped with wooden cabinets, a central island of butcher blocks and Terra-Cotta tile floors.
The lower level also contains a guest bedroom with a lot of space in the closet and a full bathroom.
Before the second level, the staircase wall shows several photographs of Mr. Yarrow and his family. These include performances with Peter, Paul and Mary in Carnegie Hall and the participation of the trio in March on Washington, the discourse site of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “I have a Dream”.
“These were his favorite moments in life,” said Yarrow.
Peter, Paul and Mary were one of the most popular popular acts of the 1960s, with a series of successful songs that include “Puff The Magic Dragon”, which Mr. Yarrow co -wrote; And “the day is made.” (The group began in 1961, just before the United States entered the Vietnam War and dissolved in 1970; it met in 1978 and continued to act until the death of Mary Travers in 2009))
When Yarrow children grew up, they had a front row seat for the hero of private concerts in the apartment. “The acoustics was extraordinary,” said Mrs. Yarrow, who divides her time between Williamsburg, Brooklyn and West Fulton, New York, over the big room. “It’s like when you’re in church, it echoes.”
On the second level there are two more rooms and two bathrooms, which can also be reached through the building elevator. The main suite, with glass panels that look towards the big room, has a bathroom and a bathroom at home and an office at home.
Mrs. Yarrow has good memories of her childhood room. “Led Zeppelin would play very strong from my tree box,” he said.
