A Palm Springs property as soon as owned by the late Mary Martin, who in 1954 originated Peter Pan within the Broadway musical, is in the marketplace for $3.95 million.
The three,456-square-foot, Spanish-style residence sits on roughly two-thirds of an acre within the Previous Las Palmas neighborhood. Accomplished in 1936 and up to date, it has six bedrooms, 5 bogs and mountain views from practically each room.
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Views additionally abound from the visitor home, which has a rooftop deck.
Information present it bought to the present proprietor in January 1989 for $520,000.
The primary home contains a formal front room with uncovered beams, built-in audio system, a hearth and hardwood flooring. It flows into the eating space. There’s additionally a separate household room.
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A swing door opens into the kitchen, which options built-in home equipment, a counter bar with seating and a breakfast nook with banquet-style seating.
The first suite has a big walk-in closet and two bogs, together with one with a shower-tub combo and the opposite with a walk-in bathe off the sitting room. These two rooms supply direct entry to the pool and spa, which the vendor not too long ago upgraded.
Contained in the visitor home is a dry bar, a walk-in closet and a rest room with a glassed-off walk-in bathe.
Different enhancements embody 5 HVAC models and absolutely paid-for photo voltaic panels.
Brady Sandahl of Keller Williams Luxurious has the itemizing.
The property was as soon as dwelling to the main woman of musical theater. A plaque close to the entrance gate proclaims it as The Mary Martin Property 1936, a spotlight of DiscoverPalmSprings.com’s self-guided Palm Springs Stars’ Properties tour.
Martin was an completed actress and singer who originated a number of iconic roles on Broadway. Notably, she performed Nellie Forbush in “South Pacific” (1949), the mischievous title character in “Peter Pan” (1954) and Maria von Trapp in “The Sound of Music” (1959). She was the mom of the late actor Larry Hagman, celebrated for his memorable performances in “I Dream of Jeannie” and “Dallas.”
After her second husband and supervisor, theatrical producer Richard Halliday, died in 1973, Martin purchased the house in Palm Springs. A deed recorded in July 1974 is on file with Riverside County.
The biography “Mary Martin, Broadway Legend” by Ronald L. Davis described her then-home as freshly painted pink with a crimson tile roof, surrounded by “a lovely garden around the pool” that she planted. It was a spot the place she hosted associates for cocktails and dinner. Her visitors included movie star Janet Gaynor and her husband, producer Paul Gregory, in addition to neighbors resembling Walter Annenberg, William Powell, Alice Faye and former President Gerald Ford and his spouse, former First Woman Betty Ford.
In 1982, county data point out she bought her Palm Springs dwelling and re-settled in Rancho Mirage.
Martin died of most cancers at her dwelling there in Nov. 1990 at 76.
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