After failing to sell at their original price point of $4.8 million, Michael J. Fox and wife Tracy Pollan have knocked $550,000 off the price of their country estate in Connecticut. Located on 72.37 acres near the quaint town of Sharon, the pastoral property is home to a mansion the couple built with the help of architect Charles Myer and interior designers Ewa Olsen and Marc Charbonnet.
Among the 5,000-square-foot home’s standout features are French doors, stained glass windows, a charming country-style kitchen with top-of-the-line appliances and a farmhouse sink, a screened porch and a kitchen garden, but the home’s centerpiece is doubtlessly the double-height great room: forty feet in length and surrounded by a second-floor gallery, it features crossed beam ceilings, a pair of chandeliers, a fieldstone fireplace and space for a 10-seat dining table. The home also includes a library with built-in Arts & Crafts-style shelving and another fireplace, as well as a spacious veranda, six bedrooms and four-and-a-half bathrooms.
Swimmers have a choice between the swimming pool or a multi-acre lake with a personal boat dock. Other features of the property include a number of fenced pastures—perfect grazing space for any horses the buyer may want to board in the 18th-century barn—a three-car garage with a guest apartment on top and plenty of open meadows among the mature native foliage.
Fox, known for his role as Marty McFly in the “Back to the Future” trilogy as well as television work on NBC’s “Family Ties” and ABC’s “Spin City,” has won four Golden Globes, four Emmys and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 1991, at the age of 29, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, a condition he disclosed in 2008. Since the diagnosis, he has been active in the search for a cure through his Michael J. Fox Foundation, which contributes upwards of $80 million a year toward research into the disease.
