Sheryl Crow sells 3 houses ripped from the history books
If it makes her happy, it can't be that bad that Sheryl Crow had to take such a big price cut.
Three years ago, the musician listed her three-house compound in the Hollywood Hills for $16 million. But after price cuts amounting to millions of dollars, she's finally sold it for $11.1 million.
The houses are all pages torn from history books, each one older than the last:
• The main house, a Spanish Colonial hacienda built in 1926. She bought this one first.
• A 1909 Craftsman.
• An 1885 cottage. She bought the Craftsman and cottage in a combo deal, then united the property into a single compound.
She told Architectural Digest in a 2011 profile of the place that she'd decorated it all herself. A pro she briefly engaged was less than cost-conscious -- sending a single antique rug so expensive it outstripped her entire budget.
Crow's intervention resulted in an aesthetic that mixes American folk art influences with religious iconography and faintly, well, creepy finds.
"I'm a collector of oddities," she told AD.
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