2 Rutherford Pl, New York, NY 10003

Two Rutherford Place is one of the most elegant 19th Century town homes still standing in Manhattan. Built for a private family and used at various times to house Civil War soldiers, as a monastery, as a doctors office with residence and asa dinner theater; it is now a single family home again with an additional three-room professional apartment reached by a separate entrance at street level. The building was constructed in 1853 as a high-stoop brownstone. As for the rest of the block and neighboorhood, all of it is built on land that had been the Stuyvesant family farm. Stuyvesant Park was laid out by Peter Stuyvesant as neighboorhood green space. > Two Rutherford Place is one of the most elegant 19th Century town homes still standing in Manhattan. > Built for a private family and used at various times to house Civil War soldiers, as a monastery, as a doctor's office with residence and as a dinner theater; it is now a single family home again with an additional three-room professional apartment reached by a separate entrance at street level. > The building was constructed in 1853 as a high-stoop brownstone. As for the rest of the block and neighborhood, all of it is built on land that had been the Stuyvesant family farm. > Stuyvesant Park was laid out by Peter Stuyvesant as neighborhood green space. Interior sq. ft. 6,311 and exterior sq. ft. 1,783.