Presidential sweet! Princeton’s POTUS pad hits the market at over $6M

New Jersey’s housing market just got a presidential upgrade.

The Princeton home of a former U.S. president just sold for $2 million above market value this month, and another POTUS residence in the same leafy suburb has hit the market — and is commanding an executive pricetag.

The seven bedroom, 5½-bathroom, Tudor Revival-style home where Woodrow Wilson lived until he was elected president in 1912 first went on the market in May for an eye-popping $6.5 million.

The three-story house at 82 Library Pl. was built in 1896 on three-quarters of an acre and boasts stained-glass pocket doors, a greenhouse, a dumbwaiter, and “two patios serenaded by a fountain and a cascading koi pond,” reads the listing.

Woodrow Wilson’s wife helped design the home, which was built in 1896. Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty

The sunroom in Wilson’s former home. Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty

The bathroom floors are heated.

There’s also balcony as well as “window seats and period mantels,” according to its listing by Sotheby’s, which has the exclusive.

“Presidential homes should have a premium attached, both to buyer interest and sale prices,” said Sotheby’s realtor Barbara Blackwell.

First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson helped design the home, one of several Wilson owned in places such as South Carolina, Georgia and Washington D.C.

“This is the one house that he and his wife really made their own,” said University of Wisconsin history professor John Milton Cooper Jr., author of 2011’s Pulitzer finalist “Woodrow Wilson: A Biography.” “She was not a trained architect, but she was an artist.”

Wilson served two terms from 1913 to 1921.

Wilson’s former home is on the market for $6.5 million. Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty

The library in Wilson’s onetime home. Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty

He sold the house in 1921 to John G. Hibben, his successor as president of Princeton.

“The house, as it is now, has been really expanded and renovated a lot,” Cooper said. “It is a lovely house, but it is now twice as big and twice as long.”

Still, he was stunned by the asking price.

“I knew Princeton real estate was expensive, but not that expensive,” Cooper said.

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