Astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s childhood home up for sale
One of the most adventurous New Jerseyans to have ever lived is at the center of a real estate debate raging in Upper Montclair. Buzz Aldrin, the man who set foot on the moon during the same mission with Neil Armstrong, grew up in a four bedroom house on Princeton Place in Upper Montclair, NJ.
The home is on the market with an asking price of $1,049,000. It’s the first time the home is up for sale since the Aldrins sold it when Buzz would have been in his late teens. Here’s a fun fact: Buzz Aldrin slept in the 3rd floor bedroom and according to a story on NJ.com used to sneak out of his window at night to hang out on the roof and gaze at the stars. What foreshadowing!
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Buzz Aldrin’s N.J. home is on the market for $1M but local man wants it to be a museum
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin stands outside the house he grew up in during a visit back to Montclair Oct. 27, 2015.Ed Murray | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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Renowned astronaut Buzz Aldrin grew up in a handsome stucco house in Upper Montclair, sleeping in a third-floor bedroom where he said he would slip out the window at night, to walk on the roof under the stars.
About two decades after the Aldrins’ moved out, in 1969, the new owners of 25 Princeton Place sat huddled around the television in his old living room, watching Aldrin and Neil Armstrong make their famous steps and leap across the surface of the moon.