If you missed out on the Brady Bunch house that sold last year, or can’t afford the Full House mansion, currently listed for $6.5 million, don’t worry. Another iconic home seen on TV just hit the market for $5.25 million.
However, you may not know it.
Today, it’s a beautiful English Tudor Revival mansion turned Airbnb in Greensboro, North Carolina that rents for $1,600 a night. But Americans were first introduced to Julian Price House in season 9 of A&E’s Hoarders.
The two-hour season finale, which A&E says is one of the most talked about episodes in the hit show’s history, didn’t spotlight the house so much as focus on its eccentric owner of 42 years.
Although the late Sandra Cowart was an interior designer by trade, she filled almost every inch of the 8,616-square-foot house with dolls, moldy furniture and a rusty antique “dirty pot” that she refused to part with.
Fortunately, an old woman’s trash was a young gay couple’s treasure. Michael and Eric Fuko-Rizzo bought the house in 2015 for $415,000 at a foreclosure auction.
Unfortunately, the historic home, built in 1929 for insurance executive Julian Price, came with the tank — and the collector itself. Cowart sat in a van parked on the property – there was no room at the inn – for six months before she was forcibly evicted and extreme cleaning specialist Matt Paxton moved in.
Paxton said the 31-room, four-story house was so full of debris that he couldn’t get into half of it. At first, he worried that there weren’t enough dumpsters in Greensboro to handle the job. In total, it took dozens of workers more than 1,000 hours of work to excavate everything.
While the Fuco-Rizzos eventually discovered cotton candy-sized mold that thrived in the walls of the home’s Prohibition-era tunnel that ran the length of the house, the property was not condemned. In fact, it cannot be collapsed. Designed by architect Charles C. Hartmann, 301 Fisher Park Cir. it is on the National Register of Historic Places.
“The home represents a high level of design and craftsmanship and is a unique type of home that has limited representation in North Carolina,” the nomination form states.
Listing agent Kay Chesnutt of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Yost & Little Realty calls it a landmark.
“Of course you couldn’t build a house like this anymore because you couldn’t find the craftsman,” she told The Post. “Everything, including every brick, is made by hand.”
Also known as Hillside, the Julian Price House sits on 1.62 acres in Greensboro’s Fisher Park Historic District. Once a swamp, today the neighborhood is full of architectural gems dating back to the early 20th century and even the Antebellum era.
“The Presbyterian church down the street is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year,” Chesnutt said, adding that the Fuco-Rizzos aren’t going far. “They’re selling this place because they’ve bought another house down the road that they’re rebuilding. They are staying in the neighborhood, continuing to improve it.”
After purchasing the Julian Price House in 2017, the Fuco-Rizzos poured an exorbitant amount of money — Chesnutt declined to disclose the amount — into not only making it livable, but also turning it into a luxury venue worthy of a wedding that you would expect. to find charm in the pages of Vogue. In addition to hosting functions, the property has hosted hundreds of travelers from as far away as the UK via Airbnb.
The Fuco-Rizzos lived in the country with their twin daughters, in the former servants’ quarters. Originally, the house had servants’ quarters both on the second floor and in the attic, accessible by servants’ stairs.
“This house is unique because it could still be a single house, or it could also be set up as an inn with gardens,” added Chesnutt. “During the pandemic when they couldn’t host guests, Michael and Eric worked on landscaping. They even dug a well just to water the lawn and installed lighting.”
Inside, the Fuco-Rizzos rearranged everything, including electrical, plumbing, heating and air conditioning.
“They didn’t just tear things down and replace them with new ones, they had them fix or reproduce things to keep the integrity with which it was built,” Chesnutt said. “They went above and beyond what Preservation Greensboro ever thought that house would be.”
Today, the home has eight bedrooms, eight bathrooms—and common spaces including a great room, a sunroom, a library, and a covered porch. High-end touches include copper gutters, sculpted ceilings, custom moldings, original steel windows from Hope’s (Frank Lloyd Wright was a fan of the brand), and clay tiles made by Ludowici, the same company that supplied tile for Yale and Duke’s venerable structures.
The property also boasts a finished basement, a garden shed and a three-car garage. Chesnutt’s favorite features are the front entrance, which faces Fisher Park—a 12-acre urban oasis with playgrounds and a walking trail—and the porte cochere in the back.
“It’s great for deliveries, especially when it’s raining.”
Once a huge fire hazard, the Julian Price house is now the coolest and quite possibly the cleanest house on the block.
But don’t turn up without warning, hoping to get a free tour. Chesnutt says prospective buyers should make an appointment at least 24 hours in advance, because the Fuko-Rizzos are honoring all bookings through the end of the year.
And while they won’t run background checks to make sure they’re not showing the home to someone with a hoarding history, they do require proof of funds.
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