This free-standing villa known as The Bailey House was the late 19th-c. home of circus impresario James A. Bailey, the partner of Phineas.T. Barnum. Architect Samuel B. Reed built the the Romanesque Revival style house in 1888, and Joseph B. Tiffany (a cousin of Louis Comfort Tiffany) conceived its interior design elements. Since the 1950s the house was the residence and funeral home of Marguerite Marshall Blake, whose name is still above the portico. In 1980 The Bailey House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated an individual New York City landmark. In 2009, The Bailey House sold for the astonishlng low price of $1.4 million. As it undergoes restoration for a new state of residency, the mansion remains the showpiece of Harlem's storied Sugar Hill section.