Former NFL Star Lists Antique Greenwich Home For Sale At $8 Million

GREENWICH, CT — Former NFL star quarterback Chris Simms and his wife Danielle have listed their antique 1725 Greenwich farmhouse for sale at $8 million.

Located at 640 Round Hill Road, the 3,669 square-foot home features five bedrooms and five bathrooms, according to the listing. The home is being listed by Monica Webster of Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

"This is an opportunity to own a piece of Greenwich history. A fully restored antique farmhouse offering approximately 3,669 square feet of refined living space, set on extraordinary level acreage with sweeping meadow views and an irreplaceable country setting across from protected conservation land with direct access to the Greenwich Riding Trails," the listing says in part.

The home features wide-plank antique floors, exposed beams, preserved fireplaces and original architectural details.

According to Historic Properties of Greenwich, the farmhouse is also known as the Charles Green House. The home was expanded in 1952 and 1957, and ultimately protected as a local historic property in 2005.

"The Charles Green House is architecturally significant primarily because of its original c1742 core and its 18th century barn, and secondarily for its sensitive mid-20th century additions that incorporated salvaged elements from a number of structures, mostly colonial in origin," the Historic Properties of Greenwich website says.

"The original core is significant in general as one of the town’s best examples of a pre-Revolutionary house, and more specifically, as the premier example of the one-and-a-half story saltbox, a transitional, 18th century building type, previously unrecognized as such, which incorporates English and Dutch methods of construction and design."

The materials for the additions and alterations to the home came from demolished structures, notably a Colonial home in Plainfield, CT, and the Peter Ferris House in Greenwich that was built in 1763 but demolished in 1957 because it stood in the way of the new Route 1, Greenwich Historic Properties noted.

Property records show the Simmses bought the home for $2.5 million in April 2019.

The son of New York Giants legend Phil Simms, Chris Simms played in the NFL from 2003 to 2010, mostly with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before brief stints with the Tennessee Titans and the Denver Broncos.

He then entered broadcasting and served an a color commentator first for college football on Fox and then for the NFL on CBS from 2014 to 2016. Simms is currently an NFL analyst for NBC Sports.

More photos can be found on the Historic Properties of Greenwich website, as well as the listing from Douglas Elliman.