Author Anne Rice’s New Orleans home is what you’d expect. It can be yours for $4M
She captivated readers with her dark prose — and now author Anne Rice’s house, which reflects her mysterious allure, can enchant a new owner.
The New Orleans Victorian mansion has undergone a significant price cut of $599,000 and is on the real estate market for $3.99 million, according to the listing on Realtor.com.
The five-bedroom, 5.5-plus-bathroom home has been restored, boasting the look and feel of a setting in one of Rice’s best-selling novels. The author lived in the home until her passing in Dec. 2021, Dirt reported.
Built in 1888, the home has romantic features throughout its 8,747 square feet including:
Formal entertaining rooms
Intriguing moldings
Stained glass windows
Chandeliers
Gourmet kitchen with wet bar
Marble bath in primary bathroom
Elevator
The fenced-off grounds are also just as elegant.
This isn’t the only mansion owned by the “Interview with a Vampire” novelist. According to Velvet Ropes, Rice also owned a home in Palm Desert, California, another mansion in New Orleans and even the site of a former boarding school called St. Elizabeth’s, which served as a setting of one of her novels.
Rice, who authored many novels including “Queen of the Damned,” died from complications of a stroke on Dec. 11, 2021, Biography said. She was 80.
This story was originally published March 2, 2022 at 1:17 PM with the headline "Author Anne Rice’s New Orleans home is what you’d expect. It can be yours for $4M."