Yahoo Finance Ginnifer Goodwin Lists Historic House in Hollywood Hills (EXCLUSIVE)
SELLER: Ginnifer Goodwin
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $1,499,000
SIZE: 2,204 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms
YOUR MAMA’S NOTES: Four times nominated People’s Choice Award nominee Ginnifer Goodwin had made her fetchingly photogenic former home in the historic Whitley Heights ‘hood in the foothills above Hollywood available with an asking price of $1,499,000. The stage-trained and pixie-haired former “Big Love” star purchased the property in late 2008 — years before she an her sinuously muscled husband and “Once Upon a Time” co-star Josh Dallas, now parents of two, hitched their romantic wagons — for $1.075 million from arguably underrated “Freaks and Geeks” and “Cougar Town” star Busy Philipps who, in case anyone might be curious, took a toe-curling loss on the property that she bought in late 2005 for $1.349 million.
Listing details show the two-story residence sits high and privately above the street on top a street-level single-car garage and contains three bedrooms and three bathrooms in a modest-by-celeb-standards 2,204 square feet of carefully restored and “designer done” interior space. A secured gate opens to an exterior stairway that passes by a fire pit girdled on three sides by a cushioned bench as well as a picturesque, tree-shaded dining terrace as it zigzags its way up to the main entrance. A proper foyer with chic Rorshach-inspired brocade wall covering, steps down to an eclectically and comfortably furnished combination living and dining room with fireplace, high gloss espresso-toned wood floors, a bank of built-in book shelves, architecturally appropriate casement windows, and a couple of sets of French doors that open to a narrow terrace. The brick-floored galley-style kitchen, decked out with jet black cabinetry and filled to the gills with name-brand appliances, opens at one end to a small breakfast area with built-in banquette seating and at the other to a den/family room with adjoining study nook. The two en suite bedrooms on the upper level include a master bedroom with custom-built wardrobes and vintage-style bathroom with white, penny-tile floor and soingée if ever so slightly camp black and white toile pattern wallpaper. French doors lead to a bi-winged terrace with tree-framed views of the Hollywood sign and a built-in banquette and day bed positioned under a trellis structure fitted with operable canvas sunshades.
It’s probably not so much of a surprise to avid celebrity property watchers that Miz Goodwin’s Whitley Heights house has come up for sale since last summer she and Mister Dallas shelled out $3.45 million for a family friendly, 5,758-square-foot home with six bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms that’s described in listing details from the time as a “gated Bel-Air traditional estate nestled on a large flat lot at the end of a cul-de-sac” in a leafy and prosperous part of Encino in the San Fernando Valley.
Listing photos: Nourmand & Associates
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