The Rhinelander Mansion, the Madison Avenue building that has housed Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation's flagship store since 1986, has been sold to Irish investors.

When he opened the Rhinelander Mansion on Madison Avenue at 72d Street it turned the head of every retailer in the nation.

F Map You'll feel like you've walked into a country estate when you enter this shop, housed in the former Rhinelander Mansion (an 1898 French Renaissance Revival wonder).

In 1984, he transformed the Rhinelander Mansion, former home of the photographer Edgar de Evia and Robert Denning, into the flagship store for Polo Ralph Lauren.

Leff's skills became widely admired in 1986 when she transformed the 1898 Rhinelander Mansion at Madison and 72nd into the flagship store for Polo Ralph Lauren.

Ralph Lauren pioneered this approach in 1986 when he transformed the Rhinelander Mansion into a temple of retailing designed to evoke an aristocratic upbringing.

He opened Rhinelander Florist in the Rhinelander Mansion, at 72d Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan, in 1936.

When she walks into Ralph Lauren's flagship store - the renovated Rhinelander Mansion at Madison Avenue and 72d Street -she is just another customer.

The Rhinelander Mansion was a different order of magnitude and complexity.

The Rhinelander Mansion was vacant until broken in 1921 into commercial use on the street level and two apartments on the four floors above.