Townhouse that provided the backdrop to composition of celebrated novella becomes available at a cool $18m
Alison Flood , guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 May 2010
"I live in Brooklyn. By choice," wrote Truman Capote in 1959. Now anyone with a cool $18m to spare can make that choice too and live in the house where the author penned Breakfast at Tiffany's.
The Brooklyn Heights home where Capote lived in the 1950s and 1960s - a five-storey, 11-bedroom townhouse built in 1839 - went on sale with Sotheby's International Realty yesterday for the first time in 70 years. Capote wrote his 1959 essay about Brooklyn, A House On the Heights, while living in the property, describing the splendour of its "beautiful staircase floating upward in white, swan-simple curves to a skylight of sunny amber-gold glass", its walls "thick as a buffalo, immune to the mightiest cold, the meanest heat" and its "porch canopied, completely submerged, as though under a lake of leaves, by an ancient but admirably vigorous vine weighty with grapelike bunches of wisteria".
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