Tony Winner Lauren Bacall's NYC Apartment Now on Sale for $26 Million

Tony Award winner Lauren Bacall's former Manhattan apartment, where she lived from the 1960s until her death this August, hit the market today with a list price of $26 million, Forbes.com reports.

The more than 4,000 square foot apartment in the iconic Dakota Building retains its original layout and many pre-war details, including the original hardwood floors and a wood-burning fireplace with a hand-carved mantel dating back to the building's original construction in 1884. The apartment has 13 foot ceilings and unusually large windows for the period, and five of the co-op's nine rooms feature views of Central Park.

The listing agent is Rebecca Edwardson of Warburg Realty.

Read the Forbes.com article here.

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Lauren Bacall was 19 when she made her screen debut in To Have and Have Not opposite Humphrey Bogart. The actress was born in Brooklyn in 1924 and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, supporting herself by working as an usherette and model. She was spotted by Diana Vreeland, then fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar, whose cover featuring a besuited Bacall was in turn seen by the director Howard Hawks.

Hawks who cast the inexperienced starlet in his adaption of Hemingway's tale of deep sea fishermen in the Caribbean. The public was hooked on Bacall's on-screen and real chemistry with Humphrey Bogart. The couple married in 1945 and they had two children and remained married until Bogart's death in 1957. Bacall later had a third child with her second husband, Jason Robards.

Bacall also became an accomplished stage actress, receiving great acclaim for her work in Cactus Flower, and winning Tony Awards for her roles in Applause and Woman of the Year. She continued acting in movies as well, appearing in more than 30, including How to Marry a Millionaire and Murder on the Orient Express. In 2009, Bacall colected an Oscar in recognition of 'her central place in the golden age of motion pictures.'

Lauren Bacall died in August 2014, aged 89.

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