Herbert N. Straus Residence (New York City, New York)

 place with historical importance, Horace Trumbauer (architect)

Built circa 1930 by Horace Trumbauer. Herbert, with his two brothers, assumed management of RH Macy & Company after their father died on the Titanic in 1912. At least two imported 18th-century French interiors were inside the house: the Tessé Room from Paris and a circular room from Bordeaux, were later purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where they have been installed in the Wrightsman Galleries. The seven-story residence sprawls across 21,000 square feet and has five bathrooms, a two-story reception room and many bedrooms, including three three-room suites on the fourth floor.

As of 2019, the residence was owned by a Virgin Islands corporation 'Maple Inc' controlled by convicted serial sex offender, pedophile and serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein.

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