The actors bought the Harlem home in 2013 and converted it to a single-family residence from a bed-and-breakfast. Their asking price is $7.325 million.
Neil Patrick Harris and his husband, David Burtka, are selling their Harlem home, a refurbished 1908 brownstone that they filled with whimsical collectibles and furnishings, from a robot parrot to the bar booth on “ How I Met Your Mother, ” the TV sitcom where both actors had starred. There’s even a “secret” room hidden on the top floor. “We think of it as Willy Wonka meets the Magic Castle,” Mr. Harris said jokingly in an email about the eclectic décor. The two are sad to be leaving the brownstone, at 2036 Fifth Avenue, between 125th and 126th Streets, but their primary residence now is in East Hampton. (They bought a 13.5-acre estate there four years ago.) “The Harlem brownstone holds some of our dearest and fondest memories,” Mr. Harris said. “Our kids have spent the majority of their lives there. It’s a legitimately special place.” Mr. Burtka felt much the same way about the house: “It will always have a soft spot in my heart.” The asking price for the house is $7.325 million, with $19,712 in annual property taxes, according to Vickey Barron, a broker with Compass who is listing the brownstone with Pacey Barron, her colleague and daughter. Mr. Harris and Mr. Burtka had bought the five-story, Italianate-style structure, near Marcus Garvey Park, for roughly $3.6 million in 2013, a year before they married, in what was then considered a lofty price for the Central Harlem neighborhood. They spent the next 14 months converting it to a single-family residence from a bed-and-breakfast, with help from the architect Jeffery Povero and the interior designer Trace Lehnhoff. In its earlier days, the building reportedly had also served as a speakeasy for Irish mill workers and a schoolhouse for girls. The couple painstakingly restored and maintained much of the original architecture, like the carved moldings and numerous built-ins, oak floors, tin ceilings, and ornate staircase of oak, sycamore and ash, while also adding a few modern amenities and period pieces.
