Julian Price House, made famous by 'Hoarders,' is for sale (2024)

Greensboro’s Julian Price House, a mansion made known to millions by the television show “Hoarders,” is now up for sale. Owners Michael and Eric Fuko-Rizzo have listed it for $5.25 million.

“The next person will make their own story,” Realtor Kay Chesnutt said on Tuesday.

The eight-bedroom, eight-bathroom house sits on 1.6 acres at 301 Fisher Park Circle in a leafy neighborhood on the northern edge of Greensboro’s downtown.

The house, sometimes known as Hillside, was designed by architect Charles Hartmann for Price, the president of Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Even for those who aren’t familiar with Hartmann’s work, the name might ring a bell due to recent, separate controversies over the fates of a building at Lindley Elementary and a mansion in Irving Park. Both were designed by Hartmann.

According to Chesnutt, former owner Sandra Cowart and the group Preservation Greensboro worked together to get the Julian Price House listed by North Carolina as a site of statewide significance. Chesnutt said the designation protects it from demolition.

In 2017, the A&E television series aired a two-hour special dedicated to the clean-up of the inside of the house, which had been packed with objects accumulated by Cowart, including items for her interior design business.

“I was going to get it back to normal, but I didn’t get that chance,” Cowart told the News & Record in 2017, just before the episode aired.

The Fuko-Rizzos purchased the home in September 2016 from Bank of America, after the bank foreclosed on Cowart.

The bank sold the home to the Fuko-Rizzos for $415,000, Michael Fuko-Rizzo said then. The News & Record reported that the property was valued at about $1 million for tax purposes at the time, but a historic-value tax break cut the tax value in half.

The couple embarked on a massive renovation and rehab of the property and their work was featured in an update “Hoarders” episode in 2019. That same year, the Fuko-Rizzos won a court case that allowed them to run a bed-and-breakfast out of the home, overruling a prior decision by the city zoning commission.

The property was assessed at about $2.1 million in 2023, according to home facts updated by county records on the real estate website Trulia.com.

The Julian Price House is still listed on Air B&B, with options to reserve a single room or the entire main residence.

Chesnutt said the couple has been living in the servant quarters with their young twin daughters in order to rent out the rest of the property. She said, however, that as the daughters have grown older, they have been wanting their own space, and the loft area on the third floor is no longer a good fit for the girls.

“It wasn’t an easy decision,” she said, but added that the couple are looking forward to moving to another home, “so they can have a family life.”

The Julian Price House, she said, would work well either as an inn or as a family home, depending on the preferences of the buyer.

“This is a very unique property; you couldn’t build it again,” she said. “Just the flow, the light; every room is framed with windows.”

The Fuko-Rizzos, she said, have done a beautiful job with their restoration.

“They’ve taken this way beyond whatever anyone ever thought this home could come back to,” she said. “It’s just grand.”