REAL ESTATE

'Mad Men' house in Westchester on market for $1.1M

Bill Cary
wcary@lohud.com
This classic white clapboard with black shutters and a fire engine-red front door was featured in the first episode of “Mad Men.” The six-bedroom, four-bath house in New Rochelle was on the market for $1.115 million.
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  • The 1914 center-hall Colonial has six bedrooms%2C four bathrooms
  • House has been used for commercials and made-for-TV movies

Want to live in Don Draper style, well before he split with Betty? The picture-perfect center-hall Colonial from the first episode of "Mad Men" has come on the market for $1.1 million.

The home is located in New Rochelle — not Ossining, where the Drapers lived on the hit AMC television show — at 90 Forest Ave. in the Forest Heights neighborhood.

Among fictional 1960s TV families, New Rochelle is best known as the home of Rob and Laura Petrie on the "Dick Van Dyke Show."

The classic white clapboard house on Forest Avenue has black shutters and a fire engine-red front door, just waiting for a briefcase-toting Don Draper to park his Plymouth and come inside to greet his wife and kids, after a steamy rendezvous with his mistress.

The six-bedroom, four-bath house has been a popular location shoot for commercials and made-for-TV movies, said listing agent Eileen Kelly of Julia B. Fee Sotheby's International Realty.

The Forest Heights neighborhood has "nice wide, wide streets, sidewalks and no utility wires in front," Kelly said.

The "Mad Men" home has a large welcoming center hall just inside that red door with a handsome open staircase up to the second floor. It was built in 1914, with interesting architectural details such as pocket doors, crown moldings, well cared for hardwood floors, 9-foot ceilings and four fireplaces. The kitchen has been updated, and the owner has added a new roof on the house and two-car garage.

The 3,544-square-foot house also has porches and a patio and the 0.39-acre property has plenty of green lawn for badminton or croquet games.