16.5M La Maison Noir Estate
One of the five structures making up the La Maison Noir estate carries an unverified piece of local lore, a former owner's alleged run-ins with Marilyn Monroe. That 18th-century farmhouse, now a guest house with a wine cellar and martini lounge, is one of four renovated historic structures on the property's 7.4 acres in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The others are a stone carriage house, a small stone well house, and a timber barn turned whiskey-tasting space with a fire-cooking outdoor kitchen and sunken lounge. The central structure anchoring the compound is a new 6,600-square-foot main house with a wellness spa, sauna, and media room. The property is the personal home of Patrick Pastella and Kanitha Burns, who run a design-build firm under their own name and had nearly every fixture inside, down to the steelwork and built-in furniture, custom-fabricated for the property by design house REVERIE rather than sourced off the shelf. The full compound totals 15,460 square feet across six bedrooms, six full bathrooms, and three half baths, with a resort-style pool framed by a garden courtyard. Here, you can be deep in Bucks County and still reach either NYC or Philadelphia in under ninety minutes.
