Before breaking up with “The Sixth Sense,” M. Night Shyamalan was just a kid developing in the suburbs of Philadelphia and inviting his friends to make videos in the woods of his space. Now this space is for sale.
Located at 132 Old Gulph Road in Wynnewood, the 6053-square-foot Japanese-style home where Shyamalan spent his teenage years recently went on the market for $2. 175 million, according to Zillow. indoor pool, swimming pool and tennis court.
Joe Morrison, a broker at Compass Real Estate, describes Shyamalan’s formative years home in Zillow as “one of the unique maxims” in the area, a mid-century pearl that has been nurtured, reinvented and subtle over the years. 40 years through the existing owners. “
The space built in 1956, according to Zillow, Shyamalan’s parents, Drs. Nelliate and Jayalakshmi Shyamalan, bought it for $176,199 in the fall of 1982, according to asset records. United States with his parents and his older sister with only six weeks of age. He was 12 when his circle of relatives moved into space.
According to the Philadelphia Business Journal, Shyamalan’s parents are retired and recently moved to Malvern to be closer to their children and grandchildren. Shyamalan and his wife in a 1937 Georgian Renaissance taste space on a 125-acre estate called Ravenwood in Willistown Township.
Speaking to the Business Journal, Jayalakshmi Shyamalan said she and her husband chose to move with their children to 132 Old Gulph Rd. Because of the smart K-12 schools and schools in the area. Shyamalan attended Waldron Mercy Academy, a personal Catholic high school, and then Episcopal Academy when he was located in Merion Station. When it was time to go to college, he left the suburbs of Philadelphia to attend New York University.
Jayalakshmi Shyamalan also praised the Business Journal for the area of the house, where he tended the lawn and held barbecues and swimming parties, as well as two quiet interior rooms overlooking the assets that presented a respite from many winters in Pennsylvania. I miss the kitchen at 132 Old Gulph Rd. more than anything else, however, because it has been the place for many giant circles of family gatherings for the more than 3 decades.
“When the circle of relatives comes, everyone, even with everything that is happening, in one way or another, will all end up in the kitchen,” he told the Business Journal.
Shyamalan has been obsessed with cinema since childhood. A personal video included as an extra on the DVD of his 2004 film “The Village” shows the young director dressed in a felt to recreate the opening scene of “In Search of the Lost Ark,” possibly in the forest surrounding the space on the Old Gulph Route. Since then, he has directed more than 10 films and two television series.
Many of Shyamalan’s projects are filmed and set in Philadelphia, the Oscar-nominated “The Sixth Sense” in 1999 and, most recently, “Servant,” a captivating Apple TV series about a inner-city couple who suffer the mysterious and traumatic death of their baby.
“I think it’s the most productive city in the country, one of the most charming places to live,” he said in an Ask Me Anything query on Reddit in February. “In fact, it has become in the last 15 to 20 years. “This lovely place. Young professionals live here, very diverse. There is an incredible amount of higher education. The places where you can shoot here, you can make a period work, you can make a work of science fiction. It’s just this total extension of everything I can invent in my head, I can do it here. “
Take a field trip to Shyamalan’s formative years home in Zillow.