63 Park St New Canaan, CT, 06840

single family home
$ 2,475,000 Sold May 20, 2015
1265 days on market, 95% sale-to-list ratio
  • 3 beds
  • 4 baths
  • 5,700 sq ft
  • 1836 year built
  • 2 cars garage

About the Home

This beautifully restored, 1836 Greek Revival house—where famed editor and publishing legend Maxwell Perkins read and edited the manuscripts of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings—is on the National Register of Historic Places. A generous garden, which offers a contemporary landscape with a geometric plan inspired in part by Le Notre, is included in the Smithsonian’s Archives for American Gardens. Though the house and garden offer privacy, the location is 88 steps from the New Canaan train station (as Perkins used to say) with its rush-hour through trains to Grand Central Station. Inside, a spare, modern aesthetic and a large 2-story open space are perfect for a home office or a dramatic gallery for painting and sculpture. Upstairs, the living quarters have the sophistication of a Manhattan apartment. On the lower level, side doors open onto the sheltered garden with its pocket views of historic-district buildings. Throughout the house are bright spaces and a synthesis of the best of 19th and 20th-century design.

Rooms & Interior

3 bedrooms beds
4 full baths
5,700 square feet sq ft

Room Details

  • Library (Lower Level)
  • Living Room (Upper Level) Fireplace
  • Other (Main Level) Fireplace
  • Other (Main Level)
  • Kitchen (Upper Level) Skylight
  • Other (Main Level) Fireplace
  • Dining Room (Upper Level) French Doors
  • Bedroom (Upper Level)
  • Bedroom (Upper Level)
  • Bedroom (Upper Level) Full Bath
  • Bedroom (Upper Level)
  • Bedroom (Upper Level) Full Bath
  • Other (Lower Level) Sliders
  • Library (Main Level) Bay/Bow Window
  • Library (Lower Level)
  • Kitchen (Upper Level) Skylight
  • Other (Main Level) Fireplace
  • Other (Main Level)
  • Living Room (Upper Level) Fireplace
  • Other (Main Level) Fireplace
  • Dining Room (Upper Level) French Doors
  • Bedroom (Upper Level)
  • Bedroom (Upper Level)
  • Bedroom (Upper Level) Full Bath
  • Library (Main Level) Bay/Bow Window
  • Other (Lower Level) Sliders
  • Library (Main Level) Bay/Bow Window
  • Other (Lower Level) Sliders
  • Other Rooms Foyer, Laundry room

Home Features

Heating

  • Fireplaces: 5
  • Heating: hot air, zoned
  • Heat fuel type: oil
  • Fuel tank: in ground

Cooling

  • Central air
  • Zoned

Interior Features

  • Security system

Appliances

  • Compactor
  • Cook top
  • Disposal
  • Dryer
  • Freezer
  • Microwave
  • Refrigerator
  • Wall oven
  • Washer

Basement

  • Partial
  • Fully finished
  • Unfinished
  • Walk-out

Laundry

  • Location: 2nd floor

Exterior Features

  • Balcony
  • Gutters
  • Lighting
  • Porch
  • Terrace

Property Details

Parking

  • Garage spaces: 2
  • Detached garage

Lot Details

  • Lot surface: 0.33 acres
  • Corner lot

Utilities

  • Water: public water connected
  • Sewage: pub. sewer connected

Construction Details

Style
antique

Construction year
1836

Exterior Siding
clapboard

Foundation
block, stone

Roof
wood shingle


Area & Town

This home is located in Town Center neighborhood, in the town of New Canaan.

Finance & Listing Info

Status Closed
Listing date May 20, 2015
Closed date November 05, 2018
Days on market 1265 days
List price $ 2,600,000
Close price $ 2,475,000
Sale-to-list ratio 95%
Tax amount $ 20,010
Tax year july 2017-june 2018
Financing used Withheld
MLS ID #99105414

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