Tasteful Friends: Dominick Dunne's childhood home in West Hartford, CT

My sister-in-law.

Wow wonder why it sold so cheap.

That was my question too. Why so cheap? Large lot, pretty home, good size.. what is up with the cheap price tag? Sell to a family member on the cheap to keep the taxes down?

Dominick Dunne gets a mention at the 12th minute

It's telling me, "never forget how old our money is."

Is West Hartford a declining neighborhood? Such a grand home for so little, how come?

Property taxes might be an issue, R6

That white tile floor... Did no one ever tell them about first impressions?

Nice house, though a bit middling for its kind (which I quite like when well done.) Maybe it's the speckled pigeon colored stonework that sets me on the wrong foot, but the low ceilings and lackluster progression of rooms without any interesting circulation scheme or focus is disappointing.

It's a very dowdy looking house for want of much spending beyond maintenance in quite a few years but it could be made to look much better without much money.

It must be a declining neighborhood because this house is more expensive than 57% of the other homes in the area.

I love the house. Not crazy about some of the reno work, but that can be fixed. You can just tell it's solid, classic, and exceptionally well-built.

How many homes did this guy have? Every 6 months, there's another "former home of Dominick Dunne".

I think all of the Hartford region is a slum at this point.

I love the facade but everything else inside and out is hideous. It would take at least 2 million to renovate it all.

I love D.Dunne. Even if he if write about himself constantly and stayed closeted for years.

What on earth going on with the green sofa?

R10- Many. He teetered from wealthy to broke constantly and was haunted by his daughters death.

a chain link fence?

What are those things hanging off the windowsill in pic 22?

R2- Radiators, crumbling patio/stairs outside, structural damage on the brick columns, book wallpaper, likely broken radiant heating.

It's giving me Skakel vibes.

They lost 200k on it in 9 years!

Did someone discover a Love💗Canal runs through the backyard?

R19- More than that- they upgraded the kitchen- look at the older listing photos!

I used to live in Connecticut near Hartford. It is the most depressing city - or sort of city - I've ever visited. Years ago, it was where most of the insurance companies were based so some outlying suburbs were very nice. However, there now is nothing - literally, nothing. If you visit after 6pm its like one of those apocalypse movies - empty streets, silence, eerie - which has to have impacted the suburbs as no one wants to live there. It's a depressing and run down city. And this home looks like a once beautiful woman who has let herself go.

Thats a lot of house for the price. I don't like the New England small manor house/mansion with 2nd floor low ceilings. These are all over CT. I am 6'2". And while maybe bearable on the 2nd floor, the first floor of this house has unacceptably low ceilings.

That bathtub looks original. Dominick probably had a bath in it 100 years ago.

The burden of property.

[quote] Years ago, it was where most of the insurance companies were based

Where are they now? I didn't realized that had changed.

Hartford is indeed a totally soulless city and, as said above, if you're trapped there after 6 PM, there's nothing open, except a couple of seedy bars and convenience stores.

It looked like the perfect home for an upper middle class family of repressed Catholics.

And why so cheap? Its just around the corner from the club. That should be worth something.

Good bones, but whoever did the interior design should be shot dead.

Library themed wallpaper instead of real books? How DARE you.

The property is cheap because it's right near the Hartford line. Hartford is Ghetto Central. Seriously, it's an absolute hellhole.