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TIL of the Benjamin Duke House on 5th Avenue in New York City. It was completed in 1901 for an heir to the Duke tobacco fortune. It remained in the Duke Family for more than a century and In 2006 it sold to a former taxi driver for $40 million, the most ever paid for a Manhattan residence.

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