Barbara Walters' stunning Central Park home hits market for …

The longtime New York home of the late pioneering TV journalist has hit the market for a whopping $19.75 million four months after her death. 
The beautiful Upper East Side apartment, a stone's throw from Central Park, boasts 11 rooms, including a dressing room, a formal dining room and a library. 
It is also where the trailblazing anchorwoman courted many of her famous interviewees - including who visited the apartment twice ahead of her bombshell interview about the sex scandal. 
Walters lived at the home for 30 years before in December last year.
She enjoyed a remarkable decades-long career, which saw her become the first female network news anchor in 1976, launch the female-led daytime talk show The View in 1997, and interview presidents, public figures and celebrities. 
Walters entertained Monica Lewinsky at her home before the famous 1999 interview, which was watched by 74 million people
The living room has sweeping views of Central Park in the longtime New York home of the late pioneering TV journalist
Anchorwoman Barbara Walters lived at the home for 30 years before passing away peacefully aged 93 in December last year
The home has changed little since Walters lived there, and still features her artwork, antique furniture and unique collectibles

The stunning apartment is located in the white-glove cooperative 944 Fifth Avenue - so-called for its high-caliber service where the doormen have always worn white gloves, according to .
The building, which was built in 1925 and designed by architect Nathan Korn in Italian Renaissance palazzo style, spans 14 stories - with each apartment taking up a whole floor.
The apartment's living room has sweeping views of Central Park as well as a baby grand piano and wood-burning fireplace.  
Walters wrote in her 2008 book 'Audition: A Memoir', that she often entertained potential interviewees in the home. 
She wrote that Monica Lewinsky came to dine at the apartment at least twice before agreeing to an interview amid the storm over her relationship with President Bill Clinton.
On the evening that the interview - which was watched live by an estimated 74 million viewers - aired in March 1999, Walters had producers of the show and a few friends over to watch.
She recounted in her book that she had lit a fire, but the flume wasn't open and the room began to fill with smoke and the fire department had to be called. 
'It was an inflammatory evening in more ways than one,' she wrote. 
The stunning apartment is located in the white-glove cooperative 944 Fifth Avenue, in the Upper East Side neighborhood
The apartment also features a charming library outfitted in red lacquer, wood-paneled bedrooms and a large kitchen
The home could easily be converted to have as many as four bedrooms, according to listing agent Alexa Lambert of Compass
The impressive home also boasts a formal dining room, a large entry foyer with marble floors, and two bedrooms. 
And the home could easily be converted to have as many as four bedrooms, according to listing agent Alexa Lambert of Compass.
It also features a dressing room and library outfitted in red lacquer and a bedroom with beautiful built-in wood paneling decorated with floral motifs. 
The home has changed little since Walters lived there, and still features artwork, antique furniture and collectible pieces from the late TV journalist's life. 
The property's listing states: 'The scale of the entrance gallery and rooms, the views to Central Park at just the perfect height, and the knowledge that so many wonderful dinner parties and meetings have happened in this chic residence make this a most unique residence.
'The wood paneled primary bedroom suite with two large windows showcasing views of the Park, has its own wood burning fireplace and feels like an escape to a beautiful hotel in the French countryside.
'The lovely, inviting eat-in kitchen has a large window over the sink and a well outfitted butler's pantry, perfect for formal dinners, but which can also be easily combined into the kitchen. There is also a generous adjacent laundry room.'
The ornate apartment is located in the white-glove cooperative 944 Fifth Avenue - so-called for its high-caliber service
A formal dining room, perfect for hosting dinners, parties and events, is just one of the impressive features of the apartment
The New York home of the late pioneering TV journalist is going for a huge $19.75 million, two months after her death
The beautiful Upper East Side apartment is a stone's throw from Central Park, with large windows looking out over the park
The building has also been home to other big-name residents over the years, including one-time Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, who bought an apartment there in 2012 for $50 million.
Walters was the first woman anchor of both a morning and an evening television-news program, joining ABC in 1976 with an unprecedented $1 million salary. 
She was married four times, including twice to television producer Merv Adelson, and had one daughter Jacqueline Danforth. 
'I don't think I was very good at marriage.

It may be that my career was just too important,' Walters said during an ABC News interview in May 2014 before her retirement.
An attorney for Walters's estate declined to comment to the outlet about whether the furniture and décor are for sale. 
The flat plan shows the home boasts 11 rooms, including a dressing room, a formal dining room, pantry, elevator and a library
Walters (right) launched the female-led daytime talk show The View in 1997, which has been running for 26 seasons since
Walters interviewed presidents, public figures and celebrities throughout her career - including Donald Trump in 2015
Walters was also known for her celebrity interviews with stars such as Oprah Winfrey, Bradley Cooper, Cher, Michael Jackson and Katharine Hepburn. 
Video clips show her weightlifting with Arnold Schwarzenegger, playing pool with Eddie Murphy, and fishing with Sandra Bullock. 
Her in-depth interviews for the Barbara Walters Special started airing in 1976, and by 1993, she would be talking to the '10 Most Fascinating People' that year.
'I was one of the first who did political interviews and celebrities,' Walters told Vanity Fair in 2014.

'And I was criticized for it, and now everybody does it. Now, on the morning shows, the first half-hour is news, and the second half-hour they're making soufflés, or interviewing a movie star. But when I was doing that, that was unusual.'



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