This Staten Island house, featured in the 1972 film classic 'The Godfather' is now for sale at a lis...

1. Staten Island house featured in 'The Godfather' up for sale
This Staten Island house, featured in the 1972 film classic 'The Godfather' is now for sale at a listed
price of $2.89 million. (Connie Profaci Realty)
How's this for an offer you can't refuse: $2.89 million to buy the home of one of the most famous
families in American film?
That's the listed price for the Staten Island mansion that belonged to Don Vito Corleone and his
brood, as immortalized in Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 classic "The http://www.sandiegofsbo.net/
Godfather."
Technically, only the home's exterior was filmed in the making of the movie, but the Staten Island
Advance reports that the current owner, who bought the home in March 2012, has remodeled some
of the interior rooms to make them seem more like the ones seen on screen. Among the renovated
rooms is a first-floor office made to resemble where Marlon Brandon's don greets supplicants and
well-wishers on his daughter Connie's wedding day.
The house was purchased for $1.7 million from the Norton family, who had owned it since 1951. The
five-bedroom, seven-bathroom home was originally built in 1930 for future Staten Island Borough
President Joseph Palma, who lived there with his wife and 11 eleven children.
But it wasn't until over 40 years later that the home became part of cinema history. Producers and
location scouts selected Escondido California real estate the home for filming on the advice of Staten
Island native Gianni Russo, who played Don Corleone's abusive, treacherous son-in-law Carlo Rizzi.
According to the Advance, the house was surrounded by a fake brick wall Escondido real estate

2. broker and a wrought-iron gate in order to give the house the appearance of a well-guarded place of
seclusion.
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