Off The Market: Ridgefield's Double H Farm Sells For $24M

RIDGEFIELD, CT — The "Most Expensive Real Estate For Sale in Ridgefield" leader board has changed.

For years, the 87-acre Double H Farm at 9-11 Old Stagecoach Road dominated real estate prices in Ridgefield. This past week, the Olympic-level equestrian compound was purchased for $24 million, $4 million less than the most current asking price. The exchange is the priciest 2023 home sale to date in the state.

In 2015, the farm went on the market for $55 million. That asking price cooled to a mere $49 million a year later, and the sale price had dropped to $33 million in 2018.

The main house has 6 bedrooms, a chef's kitchen, and a "golf-lover's dream room" with putting green. There are also two additional homes on the estate, all impeccably detailed according to the former listing on Zillow.

A saltwater pool, tennis court, pond and party barn round out the estate's list of high-end need-to-haves.

For your herd, there are two barns with 40 stalls, 12 paddocks, an indoor/outdoor riding ring, and a jumping derby field.

Not surprisingly, the former owner had a pedigree of his own. E. Hunter Harrison ("H.H.") was the former chair of the National Horse Show Association of America and CEO of Canadian railway CSX. He died in 2017. Harrison and his wife purchased the property from shoe designer Sam Edelman in 2003.

With Double H Farm's graceful exit from the field, the new most expensive home on the Ridgefield market can be found at 191 Ridgebury Road according to Zillow. You won't be raising any Olympic-level equestrians at the 3-bedroom, 7-bath, estate, but it will only set you back $7.5 million.

Homes in Ridgefield sold for a median $797,450 in the fourth quarter of 2022, down 0.3 percent from the same period the previous year, while the number of home sales slowed 28.1 percent in the same period, according to data from Douglas Elliman in the Wall Street Journal.