Oct. 01--The widow of comedy director, actor and writer Harold Ramis on Tuesday sold the couple's longtime six-bedroom, 8,357-square-foot mansion in Glencoe for $2.3 million.
A Chicago native known for co-writing the movies "Stripes," "National Lampoon's Animal House" and "Ghostbusters" and both writing and directing "Caddyshack," "Groundhog Day" and "Analyze This," Ramis died last year at 69 after battling autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis. On June 4, Erica Ramis placed their 15-room vine-covered mansion up for sale for $2.599 million.
The Ramises paid $1.901 million in 1996 for the sprawling mansion. They moved from Los Angeles' Brentwood neighborhood to Glencoe to be closer to Harold Ramis' aging parents, he told the New Yorker in 2004.
Built in 1923, the house has Palladian windows, a great room, a bonus room, four fireplaces and two sunrooms. Outside on the 0.97-acre property are a pool and lush landscaping.
Listing agent Nancy Gibson said that during the staging process, "We found all of Harold's original movie scripts -- 'Animal House,' 'Ghostbusters,' 'Groundhog Day' ... just sitting in a cardboard box on the floor of the unfinished basement. We also found a 'Ghostbusters' belt that still had the residual white goop from the marshmallow man!"
Bob Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
