What is the last true mansion on Fifth Avenue?

The five-level mansion was built between the years of 1899-1901 and stands as one of NYC's last true mansions. The Benjamin N. Duke House, NYC's “last true mansion,” was recently listed at a whopping $80 million, and a look inside makes us all wish we were nepo babies.



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Located on one of the most the iconic streets in the world, the Duke House was built during the Gilded Age and remains as one of Fifth Avenue's last true mansions, according to New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.

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The Cornelius Vanderbilt II Mansion on 57th Street and 5th Avenue, now demolished.

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1. Biltmore Estate (Asheville, North Carolina): 175,000 square feet. The Biltmore Estate isn't just the largest privately owned house in the United States — it blows the competition out of the water.

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Alice Vanderbilt sold 1 West 57th street—the grand mansion lauded as the largest house in Manhattan—for $6.1M (about $83.2M in today's dollars) in 1925, citing how expensive the taxes were on the property. The mansion was demolished to eventually make way for the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman.

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Morris Jumel Mansion — 65 Jumel Ter, New York, NY 10032 The oldest home in Manhattan was built roughly 100 years after the Wyckoff home in Brooklyn. British loyalist Roger Morris built this lavish mansion. It was one of the finest houses in the area at that time. George Washington stayed here in 1776.

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