Celebrity homes for sale: Joan Rivers

Comedienne Joan Rivers (76) has two properties currently for sale.

A beautiful Connecticut estate and a posh Manhattan apartment.

Her estate in New Milford, Connecticut, is on the market for $6,500,000.

The 75.92-acre spread has a 5,730-square-foot country house on it. Features in the four-bedroom, stone and clapboard house include high ceilings (nine-foot ceilings, according to listing information but 22-foot ceilings, according to a 2003 Architectural Digest article), four and a half Carrara marble baths and an eat-in kitchen.

And this is where she cooks? I don't think the lady eats at all!

Other features include 100-year-old chestnut beams, four wood-burning fireplaces, skylights, a massive country kitchen, and nine French doors, according to Architctural Digest. Outdoor features on the estate include an in-ground swimming pool, a pool house, a caretaker’s cottage, a pond, a barn/garage, and a guest house.

Mirror, mirror on the wall... wouldn't you just love to see yourself naked from every possible angle everytime you stepped out of the bathtub?

Rivers bought the property for $1,438,400 in 2000, and then gutted the existing house on the property. The rebuilt house was featured in the February 2003 issue of Architectural Digest

Joan Rivers also has placed her duplex condominium unit on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on the market for $25,000,000.

Located atop a limestone mansion at 1 E. 62nd Street (off Fifth Avenue, in the Upper East Side’s Lenox Hill sub-neighborhood) that was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer and built in 1903 for John R. Drexel and his socialite wife Alice Troth Drexel (1865-1947), Rivers’ three-bedroom condo includes what once had been a double-height ballroom.

Rivers, 76, has renovated the unit, the Times noted, hiring artisans to strip away layers of paint and grime from elaborate paneling, recreate gilded molding and paint “the ballroom ceiling pale blue with white clouds.”

Cozy?

Other features in the 11-room unit include four and a half baths, reception rooms, a two-story gallery, a light-flooded living room with original architectural detail, 23-foot-high ceilings, original boiserie (that’s ornate and intricately wood-carved paneling to those who have never taken French!), parquet-de-Versailles flooring, and original marble fireplace surrounds.

The condo also has a formal dining room with 18th-century panels and an ornately paneled, corner library, both of which overlook a south-facing terrace with city and park views. The master suite looks out over a second terrace with Central Park views

On a personal level I feel about Joan's apartment pretty much as I feel about her - completely over-decorated and charmless!

Even though you cover the walls with gold and paint the sky in the ceiling... doesn't make it beautiful! But that's just my opinion...

Thanks to Big Time Listings for the info