New York Giants backup quarterback Russell Wilson recently toured a Gilded Age mansion on the Upper West Side that has a market value of $29.75 million — a lot less than its $50 million asking price in 2013.
After just one season with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Wilson began looking for a home shortly after signing a one-year, $10.5 million contract with the Giants earlier this month. But he was released after the Giants lost their first three games.
Despite his tough start in the Big Apple, he’s getting lots of love from his wife Ciara and his celebrity friends. Ciara was recently on Apple Music’s “Level Up Radio” and shared that her husband is “always on the mix” and wants to listen to all the tea when she’s hanging out with her best friends, singer Kelly Rowland and actress La La Anthony.
The couple, who have three children together — Sienna Princess, 8, Amora Princess, 1, and 5-year-old son Vin — married in 2016, two years after Wilson won a Super Bowl with the Seahawks. Ciara Wilson also has 11-year-old Future Zaheer from a previous relationship.
349 W. The limestone Beaux Arts mansion on 86th St. has had the same owner since 1999, when Randall Jackson bought it for $1.4 million and rebuilt it from the ground up. At the time of Jackson’s purchase, the mansion was abandoned – there were no stairs, no roof and just rats and pigeons for tenants. It recently returned to the market in April with its current asking price of $29.75 million.
Long before Jackson, the house was owned by an exiled Russian prince, Sergei Beloselsky-Belozersky, who turned the mansion into the headquarters of the House of Free Russia from the 1940s to the 1990s.
The 25-foot-wide, seven-story home features a striking historic facade with Doric columns, Roman brick, terra-cotta, and wrought iron balconies. Property Development Joseph A. Farley and designed by Jens and Leo Architects around 1901; The façade was marked in 2020.
Inside, there are eight fireplaces – as well as an interior elevator, dramatic staircases and outdoor space on almost every level.
The home opens to a grand lobby. Design details include high ceilings, hardwood floors and lots of natural light. A formal living room and dining room were created for entertaining, as well as a chef’s kitchen that opens onto the terrace. There is also a screening room, several dens and a home gym, as well as a spectacular roof garden.
The listing broker is Lydia Susek of Douglas Elliman, who declined to comment.
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