Mention of aged listings brought to mind 33 Meeting House Road

33 Meeting House Road

Out of curiosity, I checked to see whether 33 Meeting House is still available and by golly, it is. I’m not sure whether it’s our oldest listing, but it must be a contender for that unhappy prize, because it’s been on the market since April, 2008. Priced then at $8.995 million, it’s currently begging for $4.695, and it will surely fetch less when and if a buyer finally appears.

And it’s a nice house, too. The hurt was mostly done by Jimmy Licata’s House of Usher project at 24 Meeting House, and his ex-wife’s foreclosed home across from Jimmy’s. Both were locked into legal disputes since, I think, 2001, and slowly fell to pieces over the ensuing decades (Greenwich Time article on the story here, dated 2011). With those ruins flanking the approach, 33 has never really had a chance.

No. 24 was purchased from its foreclosing bank for $2.050 in November, 2017, and I’d thought it’d be razed and Meeting House’s approach would be made welcoming again but so far as I’ve heard (and I haven’t driven by to look), nothing’s been done.

Maybe someone should toss a pitch at 33 equal to its address: $3.3 million. Would the owner take it? Who knows, but eleven years of attempting to sell a no-longer-wanted home must be tiring.

24 Meeting House

(credit, Bob Luckey)