One of the 'last true Fifth Avenue mansions,' which overlooks Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum, has hit the market for $80million. Built in the Gilded Age in 1899, 1009 Fifth Avenue was built as a 'spec house' by property brothers William and Thomas Hall, who built four mansions - 1006 to 1009 - on the famous street, knowing the era's wealthiest were desperate to live on the Avenue. Out of the four properties the Hall brothers built, 1009 remains the only one still standing. After its completion in 1901, the home was quickly snapped up by Benjamin N. Duke, a chairman of the American Tobacco Company, and which the home is named after today. The family owned the property until 2006, when they sold it to Tamir Sapir, a real estate mogul, for $40million.
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