Frank Lloyd Wright’s former NYC home sold for $18.9M

The former Plaza residence of the famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sold at asking price for $18.9 million, The Post has learned.

Wright spent five productive years at the Plaza while overseeing one of his final and most iconic designs, the Guggenheim Museum on the Upper East Side.

The architect’s large corner dwelling, once dubbed the Frank Lloyd Wright Suite, was on the market for less than five months.

The four-bedroom listed in February for $18.5 million, boasting 4,000 square feet and sweeping Central Park views. It quickly entered contract in late April and the ink finally dried two months later, according to city records.

Wright lived at the Plaza with his wife, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, from 1954 to 1959. He managed to find time to redesign the unit while overseeing the Guggenheim Museum’s construction, and he even used the building’s lobby to unveil early plans for the still-highly visited structure.

Not only was the art museum one of the American architect’s most famous projects, but it was also one of his last. Wright died just six months before the Guggenheim Museum opened its doors in October 1959.

The apartment’s next generation of ownership is hidden behind a shell corporation. Listing agent Charlie Attias of Compass revealed to The Post that the mystery buyer is from New York, but is not a New York City local.

Attias, who shared the listing with fellow broker Connor Ramage and Brooke Winsness, declined to provide additional details.

In addition to Venetian plaster walls, custom moldings and mosaic tilework, the luxe condo offers 13-foot ceilings and oversize windows with panoramas of Central Park, Grand Army Plaza and Fifth Avenue.

Owners at the Plaza Private Residences also benefit from hotel amenities like 24-hour room service and twice-a-day housekeeping.  

The well-appointed perch previously belonged to heirs of the Hudson News empire, James and Lisa Cohen.

The pair purchased the condo 2009 for $13 million and used it as a pied-à-terre. Architect Louis Lisboa of VL Architects and interior designer Susanna Maggard were tapped to undertake extensive gut renovations. The upgraded interiors were featured in Architectural Digest more than once.

The Cohens attempted listed the home in 2015 for a whopping $39.5 million — later reduced to $26 million — but found no takers.

The successful sale of Wright’s former home is happy news for the Plaza Private Residences, where excess listings and big price drops were reported by The Post just last year.