The Bergdoll Mansion, a Spring Garden property listed on the national and Philadelphia Registers of Historic Places, was listed for sale in October 2024 for $6.5 million.
Given the home’s price tag, “no one’s going to purchase it for the income of the units,” he said. And he doubts a new owner would want to live there with tenants.for a short time about a decade ago, McCann said. Given the uniqueness of the mansion and the small pool of buyers who would be looking for such a large home, the property could take six months to a year to sell, he said.
In 1989, a fire heavily damaged the mansion, and Zakarian bought it that year for $300,000 to keep it out of the hands of developers. Over decades, she spent more than $5 million on restorations, updates, and renovations, including carving apartments from huge rooms on the second and third floors and expanding the home.