This $8 Million New York Townhouse Used to Be a Sculpture Studio

A bohemian 19th-century New York City townhouse with a long artistic history is ready for its next creative steward.

The $8 million property in Manhattan’s Kips Bay neighborhood, originally built in 1848 and today enshrouded in ivy, has been host and home to numerous artists over its 177-year history. It was initially the location of the National Fine Art Foundry, and in 1909, the artists Eugene Rochette and Michel Parzini bought the building and turned it into their sculpting…