{"id":7639,"date":"2026-07-16T12:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=7639"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:45:12","slug":"christopher-plummers-former-ct-estate-back-on-market-for-nearly-13m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=7639","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Plummer&#8217;s former CT estate back on market for nearly $13M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>The former Darien estate of acting royalty \u2014 Christopher Plummer \u2014 is back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctinsider.com\/realestate\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\">on the market <\/a>with a $12.995 million price tag.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>One of only 24 individuals to have won the &#8220;Triple Crown of Acting&#8221; (Tony, Emmy and Oscar),\u00a0Plummer commanded the screen for seven decades in prominent roles with &#8220;The Sound of Music,&#8221; &#8220;Knives Out,&#8221; &#8220;Waterloo,&#8221; &#8220;The Man Who Would Be King,&#8221; &#8220;The Fall of the Roman Empire&#8221; and &#8220;Up.&#8221; On the stage, Plummer shined in roles in &#8220;Cyrano,&#8221; &#8220;Barrymore,&#8221; &#8220;Othello&#8221; and &#8220;King Lear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Plummer lived in Darien in the late 70&#8217;s before moving to Weston, where he resided for nearly 40 years. Plummer died in his Weston home in 2021 at the age of 91. Last year, his wife Elaine Taylor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctinsider.com\/news\/article\/christopher-plummer-weston-wilton-land-trust-21237385.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\">donated eight acres of their property to the Aspetuck Land Trust<\/a>, supporting it create a 750-acre nature preserve along the town border.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>The property last sold for $11.2 million in 2015, according to town property records. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zillow.com\/homedetails\/209-Long-Neck-Point-Rd-Darien-CT-06820\/57286638_zpid\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\">Zillow records<\/a> note that the property was on-and-off the market in 2019 and 2020 with a last listed price of $10.5 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>The property \u2014 a 7,610 square-foot Colonial built in 1866 \u2014 includes 200 feet of waterfront frontage with its own private beach as well as a swimming pool. Ornate chandeliers dot the house while the interior blends water views with old-world design elements. The listing notes that the current owners have renovated and restored the house. The house is located on a 1.17 acres of land with five bedrooms and eight bathrooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.compass.com\/homedetails\/209-209-Long-Neck-Point-Rd-Darien-CT-06820\/2A2VY2_pid\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\">property at 209 Long Neck Point Road<\/a> is listed by Shelly Tretter Lynch and Yashmin Lloyds of Compass Connecticut, who can be reached at 203-550-8508 and 917-597-0178, respectively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Darien estate of acting royalty \u2014 Christopher Plummer \u2014 is back on the market with a $12.995 million price tag.\u00a0 One of only 24 individuals to have won the &#8220;Triple Crown of Acting&#8221; (Tony, Emmy and Oscar),\u00a0Plummer commanded the screen for seven decades in prominent roles with &#8220;The Sound of Music,&#8221; &#8220;Knives Out,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.hdnux.com\/photos\/01\/66\/63\/32\/31143573\/3\/rawImage.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-trending-viral-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}