Back in 1928, when Mickey Mouse appeared in “Steamboat Willie” and Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, a religious order in New York built a home for the second coming of Jesus Christ - in the Bronx.
At first, the son of God would have an array of rooms to choose from, but only 1 bathroom, according to the New York Post. Now there are 8 bathrooms to better serve the home’s 7 bedrooms.
The estate atop the Bronx’s highest point can be rented for $35,000 a month, and has been off and on the market over the years. The most recent listing, for $9.9 million, was removed in November 2015.
The sprawling, 15,000-square-foot home boasts amenities fit for a king of kings: a gym, hot tub, walk-in freezer, six fireplaces and four wet bars.
A claret-red formal dining room is blessed with a marble fireplace, parquet floors and a hand-painted ceiling.
One worker stayed at the estate for more than four years getting the ceilings right, owner Sandra Galuten told the New York Daily News. She and her late husband bought the home in 1987 and spent more than a decade restoring it.
Unlike the woman who built the home with her religious order and spent an hour each day playing its organ, the Galutens actually lived there. They salvaged the thick marble slab floors, but not the organ.
"Jesus would probably love [the house]," Galuten told the Post. "I redid it in very elegant taste."
The rental listing agent is May Amos of the Oxford Property Group.
Photos by Stefano Giovannini
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