After 20 years of ownership, Ron Howard and his wife, Cheryl, are putting the New England-style home (pictured above) they built on the border of Armonk and Greenwich, Connecticut, (after purchasing land there in 1991) up for sale. The Oscar-winning actor, producer, and director said in May that, since moving from LA to raise their family in the area, the now empty-nesters are ready to move on. With a price tag of $27.5 million, the out-of-a-movie mansion and 32-acre estate might be worth it, but, just in case you want to wait it out until another celeb-owned compound comes to market, we think it best to weigh your options. (National landmark Kykuit isn’t actually privately owned any longer, but we can fantasize, right?)
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Kykuit |
The Howard |
Ralph Lauren’s Oatlands |
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Former Rockefeller |
17,000 square feet; 6 bedrooms, 5 full & 4 half baths |
Restored French-Norman manse; 1920s country home of landscape architect Robert Ludlow Fowler Jr. |
3-story, 1925 farmhouse (the Winter House) with long porch and dormer windows |
6-story stone Greek Revival house (1913); home to 4 generations of the dynasty - Advertisement -
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3 lots in 1,500-acre gated Conyers Farm community with lake views; CEO & show-biz neighbors |
250+ acres in Bedford, nearby Martha Stewart’s own homestead |
153 acres in Bedford, first settled in 1784 and purchased by Stewart in 2000 |
1,200+ acres in Pocantico Hills, now comprising the Rockefeller State Park Preserve |
2-story library-office, 14-seat theater, indoor saltwater pool, yoga studio, 2-BR guest house, indoor complex with tennis & basketball courts |
5-room white-marble master suite overlooking grounds; mahogany dressing room; antique furniture and period masterpieces |
Adjacent, property’s original structure—1770 Colonial Summer House; nearby tenant cottage; guest house; separate contemporary house |
Underground tunnel for deliveries to the servant’s kitchen; 9-hole golf course; opulent marble décor; music room; Tang Dynasty ceramics |
Vegetable & formal gardens, greenhouse; Koi pond with waterfall & pergola; horse barns & paddocks, riding ring, hiking trails Observatory with pro-grade telescope; farm with barn, silos; miniature horses, donkeys, sheep, alpacas, chickens, ducks, fish, etc. |
Sweeping lawn & ivy-covered walls à la English countryside; pool house with 16th-c. Belgian pine beams, 17th c. French limestone mantel Vintage automobile collection; 1860 English chandelier in living room; Ralph Lauren Home tartan throughout |
4 miles of carriage roads; 5 Friesen horses; cobblestone courtyards; 45k planted daffodil bulbs, Christmas-tree lot; is a Certified Wildlife Habitat Working farm; kitchen building connected to main house; converted-stable blogging space, workshop & gym |
Terraced gardens, panoramic Hudson & Palisades views; Coach Barn with carriage collection; Japanese tea house; marble fountains Subterranean art gallery featuring Warhols & Picassos; sculpture garden with 70+ classical & modern works by Calder, Moore, etc. |