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Only 12 men have ever walked on the moon – and one of them grew up in Montclair, N.J.
Now the boyhood home of Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin is up for sale, with the family that currently owns the property asking for about $1 million, according to reports.
But neighbor Ilmar Vanderer, an architect, is trying to win support for a plan to convert the seven-bedroom house into a museum honoring Aldrin, who lived there from birth until he left Montclair to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
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Astronaut’s Home May Become Museum – Buzz Aldrin’s first home in Montclair, New Jersey, could become a museum if some locals have their way. The home where the astronaut grew up is on the market with a price tag of $1.05 million, and Montclair resident Ilmar Vanderer is working to raise money and accrue the necessary permissions. Some neighbors, however, are opposed to the idea because they fear a museum would drive up property prices. Vanderer is adamant: “It would be a gift to the community, but most of all, it wou
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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.