Joan Rivers has her estate in New Milford, CT on the market for $6.5M

Comedienne Joan Rivers has her estate in New Milford, Conn. on the market for $6,500,000.

Our friends over at the Real Estalker today beat us to the punch in writing about this listing, which is part of The Great Joan Rivers Property Sell-Off that hit its zenith recently with her $25,000,000 listing of her duplex condominium unit in Manhattan. We wrote about that listing on June 16.

Now, as it turns out, Rivers has had her estate in New Milford on the market for a lot longer than anyone had realized. We first heard for sure about her place in New Milford being on the market after Joan made an appearance this morning on the Howard Stern show (thanks Tito for the tip!). That prompted us to get scurrying about for some details, and Your Mama moved even quicker and got the fine post up at the Real Estalker.

Interestingly, Rivers told Howard that her place in New Milford has been on the market for a long, long time — and that she has had just one showing in the last year. However, listing information indicates that she actually may have hoisted her estate on the market on May 2. In any case, Joan’s 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, according to listing information. 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, according to listing information.

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 (which we know we have lying around our house somewhere). Rivers told readers that “this house cost me 214 club dates….Everything here is a club date.” She also told readers that what had stood there — a low, flat midcentury building designed “by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright’s who didn’t study hard enough” — “was the ugliest house I’d ever seen. It looked like a Denny’s.” (The first two paragraphs of the article are available online through the magazine’s website, although you can read the whole article.)

Check out online listing sheets for Joan’s place in Connecticut — complete with photos — here and here.

As we noted last week, Rivers has told the New York Times she’s planning to spend more time out west with her celebrity daughter Melissa, who lives in Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades area.