More than 100 firefighters battled a devastating blaze at one of New York's last Gilded Age mansions that's currently on sale for $50 million.
Flames burst out of the windows of the townhouse at 854 Fifth Avenue – which is home to the Serbian Mission to the United States – after a fire broke out on the third floor at around 8.40pm on Sunday.
The two-alarm fire was declared under control shortly before 10pm, CBS New York reported. No one was injured in the blaze, the FDNY said.
Firefighters battled a devastating fire at one of New York's last Gilded Age mansions
Flames burst out of the windows of the townhouse at 854 Fifth Avenue after a fire broke out on the third floor at around 8.40pm on Sunday
The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
The Beaux Arts mansion – which has 32 rooms, eight bathrooms and two elevators - on Manhattan's Upper East Side is listed for sale with an asking price of $50 million.
Built in 1905, it was designed by the same firm who worked on the iconic Grand Central Terminal.
It has remained virtually untouched as it passed through the hands of the Vanderbilt family until it was bought by Yugoslavia in the wake of the Second World War.
The 20,000 square foot mansion was then fortified with bulletproof windows facing Central Park and the top floors became a Faraday Cage so Cold War meetings could be held without being wire tapped.
The two-alarm fire at the townhouse on Fifth Avenue was declared under control shortly before 10pm
No one was injured in the blaze at the property, which is home to the Serbian Mission to the US
During the Cold War, Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito hid out after an assassination attempt on him at the Waldorf Astora in 1963.
It was originally built in 1905 for New York stockbroker Robert Livingston Beeckman, who later became the governor of Rhode Island, for $60,000.
He installed white marble balustrades, oversized murals and decorative wood paneling looted from French chateaux, according to Avenue magazine.
Emily Thorn Vanderbilt Sloane White, granddaughter of railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt, and her husband Henry White moved to the mansion after buying it for $450,000 in 1925.
She put her stamp on it with even more ostentatious details, including unique cherubs covered in gold leaf in the ceiling moldings of the dining room and frescoes depicting angels on ceilings in parlor rooms.
Fire crews work at the site of a blaze at the Serbian Mission on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue
The property, which is owned by the successor states to the former Yugoslavia, is currently on sale for $50 million
But after her death in July 1946, the Republic of Yugoslavia snapped up the property for a mere $300,000, thanks to the post-war depressed real estate market, and used it as their mission.
In 1961, Tito hosted the leaders of Egypt, Ghana, India and Indonesia to draft plans for the creation of the Non-Aligned Movement in one of the mansion's front parlor rooms, according to Avenue.
In 1975, a bomb was set off in a basement stairwell, damaging the first floor and shattering windows, in another assassination attempt.
People watch from a neighboring building as fire crews work at the site of a fire on Sunday
A firefighter is seen by one of the building's windows after the fire was declared under control
Three armed Croatian nationalists stormed the property two years later and shot one man in the stomach.
Today, the property is still owned by the nation's five successor states. Their ownership stakes were decided by the United Nations.
Serbia owns the biggest amount and bases its Permanent Mission to the United Nations there.
Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia have a portfolio of 50 properties across the world that are in the process of being sold off.
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