Husband-and-wife acting powerhouse couple Tracy Letts and Carrie Coon on Feb. 13 sold their four-bedroom, 6,873-square-foot contemporary-style mansion in Bucktown for $3.1 million. The couple now are living in an old brownstone in the New York borough of Brooklyn.
An actor, playwright and screenwriter, Letts, 57, won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for his 2007 play, “August: Osage County,” and is an alumnus of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Coon, 42, is a longtime veteran of Chicago’s stage scene and has appeared on TV and in film as well. She currently stars in HBO’s series “The Gilded Age,” which films in New York.
Through a land trust, Letts paid $3 million in 2009 for the modernist mansion in Bucktown, which sits on a triangular property. Built in 2003, the house has four full bathrooms, two half-bathrooms, two fireplaces and an attached three-car garage. The home also has more than 100 feet of street frontage.
In March 2022, the couple placed the mansion on the market for $3.99 million through the real estate agents’ private listing network. Failing to find a buyer, they then publicly listed the home in June for $3.6 million and then cut their asking price to $3.42 million in October and then to $3 million in January.
Public records show that the mansion’s buyer is an opaque land trust.
Coon previously had told Elite Street via a text message that “Tracy and I are committed Chicagoans who are temporarily relocating to New York for work.” In a May 2022 interview in The Wall Street Journal, Letts told a reporter that “we have a great old brownstone a block from Prospect Park that we rented when we commuted from Chicago. Now we’re New Yorkers.”
The Bucktown mansion had an unusually low, $15,376 property tax bill in the 2021 tax year.
Listing agent Stephanie Klein Trout declined to comment on the sale.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
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