High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Schinasi Mansion is a French Renaissance home located at 351 Riverside Drive in Manhattan. It is cited as the only privately owned fully detached single-family residence in Manhattan.. Completed in 1909 at the northeast corner of West 107th Street and Riverside Drive, the three-story, 12,000 square foot mansion was designed in neo-French-Renaissance style by William Tuthill., the same architect who designed Carnegie Hall. Morris Schinasi, a Turkish immigrant who made his millions on cigarettes, commissioned the design and owned the thirty-five-room mansion until his death in 1928. After that the mansion changed hands several times until 1979 when Hans Smit, a Columbia University Law Professor, bought it and commissioned an extensive interior restoration.. It was designated a New York City landmark on March 19,1974. The mansion is one of a kind, with rich details in every niche of the building. Pineapple motifs, seen as a symbol of...

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