Live in Andy Warhol’s Former Upper East Side Townhouse

The Carnegie Hill townhouse where pop art icon Andy Warhol made his classic pieces depicting Campbell’s Soup cans is officially on the market.

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As reported by the New York Post on Monday, the property located at 1342 Lexington Avenue (at the corner of 89th Street) can be leased for a totally affordable $22,555 per month.

The home reportedly comes with some “quirky touches,” according to the article: “…like a front door handlebar made in part from one of Warhol’s former walking sticks, and a kitchen floor splattered with green paint left over from the Warhol era when the space, by the garden, was used as the artist’s studio.”

Warhol, a Pittsburgh native who relocated to New York in 1949 and revolutionized the city and world’s art scene following the creation of The Factory, lived in this residence from 1960 until 1972, the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project states.

“In 1974, Warhol began renting the house to his business manager Frederick W. Hughes, who also ran Warhol’s Factory and lived here until his death in 2001,” the website adds.

In addition to his famous portrayals of Campbell’s soup cans, Warhol also completed some of his other most culturally significant art pieces at the Lexington Avenue property, including portraits of boxing great Muhammad Ali and acting legends Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor.

“This is where he got his creative juices flowing and made art that funded the lifestyle he had for the rest of his life,” listing broker Merav Shalhon of Essential New York Real Estate, who has the listing, told the New York Post.

She added that Warhol’s mom lived with him at the space, and she was actually the one who bought him the soup cans that would eventually make it onto his world-changing canvases from a grocery store across the street; although it was a different business back then, the space is still occupied by a supermarket (Gristedes).

The townhouse, along with others on the street, was designed by Henry Hardenbergh in the late 1880s.

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