The home on 131 Pecksland Road in Greenwich, Conn. was used in the 2014 Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton film, “And So It Goes.”
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The opening scene in the trailer for the film “And So it Goes” shows a driveway flanked by stone entry gates and tall trees in a pastoral setting. At the driveway’s horizon line is an ivy-covered Colonial home peeking through the tunnel of trees. Heading up the driveway in a convertible is Oren Little, played by Michael Douglas, and his destination is a real-life Greenwich home that is currently for sale.
Listed for $10.75 million, the home at 131 Pecksland Road had its brush with fame in the 2014 film, which also stars Diane Keaton and was directed by Rob Reiner. It’s not the home’s only connection to notable names. According to the listing, the home was designed by J. Alden and Quentin Twachtman, a brotherly architectural team who Cottages & Gardens magazine notes “designed about two dozen rather stately homes in and around Greenwich.” The duo are the sons of American impressionist painter, John Henry Twachtman, whose famous work “Arques-la-Bataille” is displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The tree-lined driveway leading to the home on 131 Pecksland Road in Greenwich, Conn.
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The pool on the property of the home on 131 Pecksland Road in Greenwich, Conn.
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The exterior of the home on 131 Pecksland Road in Greenwich, Conn. Courtesy of Compass / Contributed Photos
The listing notes that the Twachtman brothers drew on “the nature that surrounded the homes they created,” and they centered on the “allee of chestnut trees” as a source of inspiration for the Pecksland Road home. The 7,691 square-foot home contains five bedrooms, which the listing notes include a primary suite that’s complete with a fireplace, two full bathrooms and a dressing room. The remaining four bedrooms include en-suite bathrooms, and there are a total of six fireplaces throughout the home.
On the first of three floors in the home, there’s an au-pair or maid’s room, according to the listing, as well as a living room, dining room and wood-paneled library. The main level is rounded out by a family room and an updated kitchen that has a breakfast room leading out to a slate patio.
Outside the home, there are 3.82 acres of land that contain a heated pool and its adjoining pool house, which has a kitchen, wet bar, solar shower and two dressing rooms. There’s also a clay tennis court with 30-foot pear trees.
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