Might be time for a celebratory toss of the hat for a Minneapolis house with a famous facade.
After nearly five years on the market, the turreted house near Lake of the Isles that was depicted as Mary's home in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" is close to having a new owner.
The deal won't close until mid-September, so the identity of the buyers is a mystery and the listing agent declined to comment.
The house, at 2104 Kenwood Parkway, was built in 1892 and has gone through many renovations and expansions over its 125 years.
In the TV show, which aired from 1970 to 1977, it was depicted as broken into units for apartments. It's actually a seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom house that, in a remodeling before 2012, was expanded from 6,461 to 9,161 square feet.
Public records list the sellers as Gregory Macfarlane and Eva Wai Oi Mui, who paid $2.9 million for the house in 2007, when Macfarlane was appointed chief financial officer of Minneapolis-based Ceridian Corp.
It was put on the market for the same price in December 2012 after Macfarlane was named chief financial officer of H&R Block in Kansas City. Its most recent price was $1.7 million, about half the 2012 level.
The couple bought the house from Don and Patricia Gerlach, who bought it in 2005 for $1.1 million and completely renovated it, including making the kitchen four times larger.
![After more than $800,000 in price reductions and more than four years on the market, the Kenwood house made famous by the Mary Tyler Moore Show appears to have a buyer. The deal is pending and won't close until mid September, so the agent is mum on details. The house was most recently listed for $1.695 million, more than $1 million less than what the sellers paid for it at the peak of the market in 2007. ] ELIZABETH FLORES ï liz.flores@startribune.com](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/ADBQA7HNDKQXVOWWL4OUSBSULE.jpg?&w=1080)
