The residence during 1175 Meetinghouse Road in Birmingham featured in the 2008 movie “Marley & Me” is listed for sale during $1.25 million.
BIRMINGHAM — The “Marley & Me” residence is for sale. And that’s usually how it’s being marketed. A large pointer upon the northeast dilemma of Route 100 as great as Meetinghouse Road, where the mill residence has stood for scarcely 175 years, trumpets the actuality which this is where most of the 2008 tearjerker movie was filmed.
The house, with the surrounding sixteen acres as great as 4 outbuildings, is upon the marketplace for $1.25 million. Owners John Ennis, an attorney, as great as Lisa Taylor Ennis, the fine-arts photographer, wish to downsize right away which their 3 young kids have flown the nest.
The house, during 1175 Meetinghouse Road, is great great good good well known to internal movie buffs as great as aged residence aficionados alike. The movie was formed upon the extravagantly renouned “Marley & Me” discourse by John Grogan, the former journal contributor whose tales of the mischievous nonetheless friendly Marley, the yellow Labrador retriever, grabbed dog lovers’ hearts everywhere.
“People still come by to take pictures,” John Ennis pronounced with the chuckle. “A total bucket of kids as great as relatives will burst out of the automobile as great as snap photos in front of Marley’s house. People have been respectful as great as discreet; they don’t wish to encounter us. They usually wish to see Marley’s house.”
Played by Owen Wilson as great as Jennifer Aniston, John as great as Jennifer Grogan as great as their fruit changed to the segment from Florida. They right away live in Bucks County with Marley’s successor. No warn which Woodson is an additional yellow Lab.
Scouts for the movie’s prolongation association scoured Pennsylvania as great as Connecticut for the befitting residence as great as panorama to match.
“They longed for the residence which symbolized the Grogans’ rock-solid relationship,” John Ennis recalled.
And they found it in Chester County.
Many locals — together with the Ennises, who changed out to the prolongation company-provided apartment residence in Avondale for dual months during filming — avidly watched as the movie was put together.
The usually place off-limits was the studio, where Lisa Ennis has her college of music as great as gallery. Other bedrooms in the residence were swarming with movie gear, prolongation assistants as great as the like. Continued…
The five-bedroom, 3½-bath house, the dual mill sections assimilated by the wooden further in loyal farmhouse style, did not disappoint.
A quite noted stage shows the residence during the winter’s night, intense in the background, as John Grogan creates sleet angels in the front back back yard with his children. Contented, as great as with his “pack,” Marley keeps them company.
And, when an aging Marley gets ill as great as can’t have the steps anymore, John Grogan fashions the pallet for himself in front of the fireplace, where Marley has parked for the night.
Most of the Ennises’ Americana-inspired furniture, quilts, found objects as great as design — together with Lisa’s photography — remained in the residence during filming. (For visible continuity, set designers brought in the couple of pieces of seat from the Florida set.)
The preference to marketplace the residence as the “Marley & Me” venue was the no-brainer, according to Richard Gross of Prudential, Fox & Roach who, with mother Holly, is representing the sellers.
“Selling the residence is similar to offered the square of artwork. If the art or the residence has great provenance — formed upon who owns or owned it, or what happened there — we do your customer the harm if we don’t take value of that,” Dick Gross said.
A Hollywood prolongation association not long ago contacted the Grosses, meddlesome in we do the uncover about houses where cinema were filmed.
The “Marley & Me” residence has the latest Waterbury-designed kitchen, the latest 50-year cedar shake up up roof, the little latest Nordic hard wood floors as great as the redone master bath with Carrara marble, the claw-foot showering cylinder as great as glass-enclosed shower.
All this is the distant cry from when the family purchased the residence in 1996. It was abandoned, the front doorway descending off the hinges, Lisa Ennis recalled. Floors were shop-worn as great as it had no kitchen to verbalise of. A shoal swimming pool with the fountain, nearby the Route 100 dilemma as great as great great good good well known to area children, had not long ago been filled in.
The Ennises camped out in the vital room whilst they undertook endless replacement as great as renovation, we do most of the work themselves. Continued…
The residence during 1175 Meetinghouse Road in Birmingham featured in the 2008 movie “Marley & Me” is listed for sale during $1.25 million.
BIRMINGHAM — The “Marley & Me” residence is for sale. And that’s usually how it’s being marketed. A large pointer upon the northeast dilemma of Route 100 as great as Meetinghouse Road, where the mill residence has stood for scarcely 175 years, trumpets the actuality which this is where most of the 2008 tearjerker movie was filmed.
The house, with the surrounding sixteen acres as great as 4 outbuildings, is upon the marketplace for $1.25 million. Owners John Ennis, an attorney, as great as Lisa Taylor Ennis, the fine-arts photographer, wish to downsize right away which their 3 young kids have flown the nest.
The house, during 1175 Meetinghouse Road, is great great good good well known to internal movie buffs as great as aged residence aficionados alike. The movie was formed upon the extravagantly renouned “Marley & Me” discourse by John Grogan, the former journal contributor whose tales of the mischievous nonetheless friendly Marley, the yellow Labrador retriever, grabbed dog lovers’ hearts everywhere.
“People still come by to take pictures,” John Ennis pronounced with the chuckle. “A total bucket of kids as great as relatives will burst out of the automobile as great as snap photos in front of Marley’s house. People have been respectful as great as discreet; they don’t wish to encounter us. They usually wish to see Marley’s house.”
Played by Owen Wilson as great as Jennifer Aniston, John as great as Jennifer Grogan as great as their fruit changed to the segment from Florida. They right away live in Bucks County with Marley’s successor. No warn which Woodson is an additional yellow Lab.
Scouts for the movie’s prolongation association scoured Pennsylvania as great as Connecticut for the befitting residence as great as panorama to match.
“They longed for the residence which symbolized the Grogans’ rock-solid relationship,” John Ennis recalled.
And they found it in Chester County.
Many locals — together with the Ennises, who changed out to the prolongation company-provided apartment residence in Avondale for dual months during filming — avidly watched as the movie was put together.
The usually place off-limits was the studio, where Lisa Ennis has her college of music as great as gallery. Other bedrooms in the residence were swarming with movie gear, prolongation assistants as great as the like.
The five-bedroom, 3½-bath house, the dual mill sections assimilated by the wooden further in loyal farmhouse style, did not disappoint.
A quite noted stage shows the residence during the winter’s night, intense in the background, as John Grogan creates sleet angels in the front back back yard with his children. Contented, as great as with his “pack,” Marley keeps them company.
And, when an aging Marley gets ill as great as can’t have the steps anymore, John Grogan fashions the pallet for himself in front of the fireplace, where Marley has parked for the night.
Most of the Ennises’ Americana-inspired furniture, quilts, found objects as great as design — together with Lisa’s photography — remained in the residence during filming. (For visible continuity, set designers brought in the couple of pieces of seat from the Florida set.)
The preference to marketplace the residence as the “Marley & Me” venue was the no-brainer, according to Richard Gross of Prudential, Fox & Roach who, with mother Holly, is representing the sellers.
“Selling the residence is similar to offered the square of artwork. If the art or the residence has great provenance — formed upon who owns or owned it, or what happened there — we do your customer the harm if we don’t take value of that,” Dick Gross said.
A Hollywood prolongation association not long ago contacted the Grosses, meddlesome in we do the uncover about houses where cinema were filmed.
The “Marley & Me” residence has the latest Waterbury-designed kitchen, the latest 50-year cedar shake up up roof, the little latest Nordic hard wood floors as great as the redone master bath with Carrara marble, the claw-foot showering cylinder as great as glass-enclosed shower.
All this is the distant cry from when the family purchased the residence in 1996. It was abandoned, the front doorway descending off the hinges, Lisa Ennis recalled. Floors were shop-worn as great as it had no kitchen to verbalise of. A shoal swimming pool with the fountain, nearby the Route 100 dilemma as great as great great good good well known to area children, had not long ago been filled in.
The Ennises camped out in the vital room whilst they undertook endless replacement as great as renovation, we do most of the work themselves.
Among the 4 outbuildings is the stable with 6 stalls, yet the Ennises have no horses of their own. Two dogs — Sheltie Frank as great as Foo, the pug — as great as multiform stable cats keep watch.
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