Diane Sawyer’s former Martha’s Winery house is now on sale for $24 million.

The huge, 20-acre seaside compound, nicknamed Chip Chop, boasts 10 bedrooms, 9 loos and two half loos. 

The beachfront property, listed by Mark Jenkins of Wallace and Co. Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty, was bought by the previous Good Morning America co-host and her late husband Mike Nichols in 1995. Constructed in 1937 for Broadway star Katharine Cornell, the residence has been visited by famend public figures from the worlds of literature, theater, cinema, politics and extra.

There’s loads of room for privateness. Chip Chop sits on two separate tons, one options 17.4 acres and the second with 2.84 acres. A brief stroll will take you to 2,000 ft of sandy shores with lovely views of the waters of Winery Sound, that are good for swimming on a scorching summer time day. There’s additionally the seaside on Lake Tashmoo to discover.

A future resident might additionally play a sport of tennis on the Har-Tru court docket that’s featured on the property.

The swimming pool affords beautiful views of Winery Sound. Throughout a transparent day, residents and their friends might see the mainland within the distance.

Based on Sotheby’s, Sawyer and Nichols renovated the house whereas nonetheless preserving its understated class because it was meant by the distinguished neoclassicist architect Eric Gugler. 

The deal with for the property, which Sawyer owned for practically 30 years, is 794 and 690 Chappaquonsett Street in Winery Haven, Massachusetts.

The veteran journalist saved the property after Nichols’ demise in November 2014. 

When the 2 met, Sawyer was working as a correspondent on CBS’s 60 Minutes and he was already an completed director. He was 54 and she or he was 40. They had been each in Paris however headed again house to the U.S. In a Could 2012 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar winner recalled their first interplay. 

“She was hiding within the [airport] lounge as a result of she hadn’t performed her hair or one thing. I discovered her and stated, ‘You’re my hero.’ And he or she stated: ‘No, you’re my hero. Do you ever have lunch?’” Nichols shared on the time. “She wished to interview me for 60 Minutes. I pretended that I used to be up for it, and we had about 14 lunches.” 

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They fell for each other and even their friends might see the sparks. They married in April 1988.

“He’s beneficiant and adventurous and somewhat wild and totally variety. It’s that mixture of one thing you’re utterly certain of and one thing harmful and attention-grabbing. And he’s additionally the funniest man on the face of the earth,” Sawyer as soon as informed PEOPLE of her husband.

“He cherished Diane totally, immeasurably, magically,” Julia Roberts informed PEOPLE following his demise. “Real love made Pinocchio an actual boy. It actually occurred, as a result of she loves me and accepts issues about me I can’t think about anybody accepting.”