The realtor for Houdini's former home at 278 W 113th Street in Harlem, NY, has just posted a comment on my blog about the house from last year:
"Apt 3 top floor is vacant. Would you know anyone who wants to rent? I am the realtor for the owner."
Unfortunately, the realtor did not leave a name or contact info, but I'm pretty sure this is legit as the previous owner of the top unit threw a Houdini-themed moving out party in November.
So who wants to live in the home of Houdini?
- Home
- Life
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- Magic
- Movies
- Houdini's Movies
- Les merveilleux exploits de Houdini à Paris (1909)
- The Master Mystery (1918)
- The Grim Game (1919)
- Terror Island (1920)
- The Man From Beyond (1922)
- Haldane of the Secret Service (1923)
- Velvet Fingers (1925-26)
- Medium Well Done (1937)
- Religious Racketeers (1938)
- Houdini Picture Corp.
- Film Developing Corp.
- Filming locations
- Unmade Movies
- Deconstructing Houdini '53
- Spiritualism
- People
- Beatrice Houdini
- Theo Hardeen
- Cecelia Weiss
- Mayer Samuel Weiss
- Jim Collins
- Franz Kukol
- Martin Beck
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Margery
- J. Gordon Whitehead
- Edward Saint
- Jacob Hyman
- Leopold Weiss
- Carrie Gladys Weiss
- Bernard M.L. Ernst
- Charmian London
- Jess Willard
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Sherlock Holmes
- Assistants
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- Other magicians
- Media
- Full Bibliography
- By Houdini
- Biography
- Fiction
- Foreign
- For Kids
- Methods
- Wild About Harry Bookshelf
- Houdini His Life Story (1928)
- Houdini The Man Who Walked Through Walls (1959)
- Houdini The Untold Story (1969)
- The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini (1993)
- Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss (1996)
- The Secret Life of Houdini (2006)
- The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of Harry Houdini (2012)
- The Witch of Lime Street (2015)
- The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini (2019)
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If I were there and could get the money for it!!!
ReplyDeleteI hear you, lulamaecollins. If I had the cash I'd make this a second home in a flash!
DeleteAbout 30 years ago you could have bought the house for $170,000. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteAnd 100 years ago we could have gotten it for $30,000. :p
ReplyDeleteDammit, that would beyond awesome to live there! I wonder what the actual cost of the place is? Probably wildly beyond what I'll ever be able to afford...ever. :'(
ReplyDeleteIt's a brownstone so we are talking 7 figures I would think.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's now a 3 unit apt. building. For what I hear the inside has been pretty throughly changed/renovated. But I also hear Houdini's library is still intact and beautiful.
ReplyDeleteHey....now is the time to take the grand tour. Anyone live near the city that can visit the apartment and report back what it is like inside? I live in NJ but will be traveling the next 5 weeks on business.
ReplyDeleteI have the mortgage of the house when bess sold the house in 1927
ReplyDeleteExcellent! Let's move in and open a museum. :)
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