The longtime New York City home of Oscar-winning actress Katharine Hepburn is now asking $6.195 million.
The 19-foot-wide townhouse in Turtle Bay, on the east side of Midtown Manhattan, first hit the market in 2024 for $7.2 million. The price was lowered twice last year, and then again last week, listing records show.
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“The Philadelphia Story” star reportedly owned the home from 1931—just before her Hollywood break—until her death at the age of 96 in 2003.
Hepburn was a decorated actress who had a decades-long career. She holds the record for the most Academy Awards won by a performer, male or female. All of her Oscars were for Best Actress: in 1934 for “Morning Glory,” in 1968 for “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” in 1969 for “The Lion in Winter” and in 1982 for “On Golden Pond.”
Her estate sold the almost 130-year-old property to the current owner in 2004 for $3.9 million, records with PropertyShark show.
The house is “the epitome of New York glamour,” according to the listing with Lisa Larson of Sotheby’s International Realty – East Side Manhattan Brokerage. Through a representative, she did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Across its roughly 4,600 square feet of living space, the townhouse has a stone-tiled entrance foyer, an eat-in kitchen with custom designed cabinetry and a built-in breakfast table and banquette, a butler’s pantry, and a dining room with its original marble wood-burning fireplace, the listing said.
There’s also a formal living room with a Juliet balcony, a library with floor-to-ceiling windows, a wine cellar and four bedrooms. The primary suite has its own wood-burning fireplace, high ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows and a bathroom with a claw-foot soaking tub as well as Hepburn’s original mirrored vanity.
Outside, there’s a large bi-level flagstone patio and a landscaped garden with mature trees, flowering bushes and a fountain. There’s also direct access, through a wooden gate, to Turtle Bay Gardens, a private park accessible only to the residents of the surrounding 20 townhomes.