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Per the film’s production notes, their apartment was part of a massive 11,000-square-foot set built at the Jersey City Armory in New Jersey.Ī Perfect Murder is hardly the first production to make use of the two properties.

The interior of Steven and Emily’s massive penthouse cannot be found in either mansion, though. while the Otto Kahn Mansion’s rooftop masks as the Taylors’ private terrace.

as well as its rotunda and central staircase portray the apartment building’s entrance and lobby. For exterior shots of the Taylors’ upscale apartment building, the estates were made to appear as one singular property, as you can see below. The Otto Kahn and James Burden Mansions pop up numerous times throughout A Perfect Murder. You can catch a glimpse of its striking interior here. The 1901 estate was designed by the Warren and Wetmore architecture firm (who also designed Grand Central Station and the New York Yacht Club) and is just as palatial and lux as its neighbor with a grand Hauteville marble spiraling staircase situated underneath a Tiffany glass skylight, a banquet hall lined with Campan vert marble, and an extravagantly-arched carriageway. While I did not snap any photographs of that property, you can check out what it looks like here. Six years later, the Convent of the Sacred Heart purchased the James Burden Mansion next door and combined the two sites. When Kahn passed away in 1934, Adelaide sold the massive home to the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private Catholic all-girls school. The property’s French limestone exterior is actually rather non-descript and belies the utter extravagance and opulence of the interior, which you can see photographs of here, here and here. The 80-room manse was modeled after Rome’s Palazzo della Cancelleria and boasts an oak-paneled library, a garden, a Caen stone entry and stairwell, a large inner courtyard, an enclosed driveway (to keep away prying eyes), a reception room, a ballroom, a music room with parquet floors and an Adams-style ceiling, and accommodations for a staff of forty! Otto was once quoted as saying, “It’s a sin to keep money idle” (Why oh why can’t the Grim Cheaper share that belief?), so money was no object when it came to the property’s construction which began in 1914 and took four years to complete. Armstrong Stenhouse for wealthy banker Otto Kahn and his wife, Adelaide Wolff. Sinclair House from Cruel Intentions) and J. The neo-Italian Renaissance-style Otto Kahn Mansion was designed by architects C.P.H. So I, of course, ran right out to stalk it while in town.

#PERFECT MURDER MOVIE MOVIE#

Prior to writing this post, I had only been aware of the former, which I learned of via the book New York: The Movie Lover’s Guide shortly before my 2016 trip to NYC. The mashup included a studio-built set and two adjacent Upper East Side estates – the Otto Kahn Mansion at 1 East 91st Street and the neighboring James Burden Mansion at 7 East 91st. Somehow I also failed to realize that three different spots were utilized to represent the Manhattan penthouse where Steven Taylor (Michael Douglas) and his wife, Emily Bradford Taylor (Gwyneth Paltrow), lived in the film. (Insert monkey-covering-face emoji here.) Sadly, my ignorance didn’t end there. Truth be told, up until doing research for this post, I had no idea that the 1998 flick had been based upon anything. Case in point – though A Perfect Murder has long been a favorite thriller, I have never seen Dial M for Murder, the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece from which it was adapted. For someone who is so well-versed in all things movie-related, I know very little about Old Hollywood – a fact my mom often admonishes me for.