There is anecdotal evidence that the maisonette [large apartment] once served as a school for the deaf, which may explain its unusual arrangement of back-to-back powder rooms, each with its own anteroom and a marble or tile floor, off a sunken foyer reached through the lobby, according to the New York Times, 3/15/15, at p. RE 2.
Publication date | Jun 24, 2018 |
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There is anecdotal evidence that the maisonette [large apartment] once served as a school for the deaf, which may explain its unusual arrangement of back-to-back powder rooms, each with its own anteroom and a marble or tile floor, off a sunken foyer reached through the lobby, according to the New York Times, 3/15/15, at p. RE 2.