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AT HOME WITH

The Baldwins

Take a tour of the house they can’t quit.

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Alec and Hilaria Baldwin pose for a photo in a kitchen.

By Addie Morfoot Photographs by Winnie Au

Aug. 29, 2025

Hidden from a main road in Amagansett, N.Y., Alec Baldwin’s farmhouse has been his refuge for three decades. The actor spent close to 10 years living alone, experiencing highs, like the numerous accolades for his comedic chops on “30 Rock,” and lows, like the messy breakup of his first marriage.

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin pose for a photo in a kitchen.

In 2012, he married the yoga instructor Hilaria Baldwin and they had a child and then another and another until they had a brood of seven, plus Mr. Baldwin’s oldest child from his first marriage to the actor Kim Basinger.

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin pose for a photo in a kitchen.

The three-story summer home for one on Long Island’s East End had to grow, and so did Mr. Baldwin, 67.

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin pose for a photo in a kitchen.

“This was Alec’s safe place for a long time before he met me,” said Ms. Baldwin, 41. “A place he would come during very difficult times in his life: his divorce, a custody battle, everything. So it has been a piece-by-piece process learning how to come together and create something here, which I think is normal in any relationship.”

A sun-drenched room is anchored two sofas and two oversize coffee tables. Stuffed animals and toys are pushed against the walls.

Last summer, the 11,000-square-foot estate with five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a library, a basement movie theater turned playroom, and an expansive open-concept living area became a leading character in the TLC reality show “The Baldwins.”

A sun-drenched room is anchored two sofas and two oversize coffee tables. Stuffed animals and toys are pushed against the walls.

Camera crews filmed the couple and their seven young children in the weeks before and after Mr. Baldwin stood trial for involuntary manslaughter in connection with the fatal 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie “Rust.” (The charges were later dismissed.)

Initially, the idea of making a reality show during the darkest period of his life was “the most preposterous thing I’d ever heard of,” Mr. Baldwin said. But he said he is grateful that his wife had the idea and that he decided to participate in the series. The show, Mr. Baldwin said, gave him and his family a voice during a time when “everybody else was speaking for us.”

Cameras captured Mr. Baldwin’s internal torment in the lead-up to his trial. “I’m happier when I’m asleep than when I’m awake,” he says in episode one. They also captured a rambunctious yet joyful nine-person household that Mr. Baldwin appeared to relish.

His children, and arguably the cameras, allowed Mr. Baldwin the opportunity to be his sarcastic, witty self. “Let other people go to the south of France and go on Geffen’s yacht and sip wine and espresso martinis,” he says poolside. “That’s not what I want. I want to clean the filters of my pool.”

A large, sun-drenched room has two sofas, four armchairs, an ottoman and several tables. A fireplace is prominent, with a painting of Hilaria Baldwin in front of boxes of RiceARoni.

In the living room, a portrait of Ms. Baldwin painted by contemporary artist Brendan O’Connell hangs above the fireplace.

A large, sun-drenched room has two sofas, four armchairs, an ottoman and several tables. A fireplace is prominent, with a painting of Hilaria Baldwin in front of boxes of RiceARoni.

“I have to admit that I’m extraordinarily embarrassed that there is a gigantic painting of me in this room,” Ms. Baldwin said. “It’s like, ‘Welcome to my living room. Here is a painting of me.’”

The painting was inspired by a paparazzi photo of Ms. Baldwin inside a bodega near the West Village apartment that is the family’s primary residence. The couple met in 2011 at Pure Food and Wine, a raw food and vegan restaurant in New York City’s Gramercy neighborhood. Their fast-moving May-December romance, their procreation, and questions about Ms. Baldwin’s slight Spanish accent and her first name — she was once Hillary — were catnip for tabloids.

Mr. Baldwin had the idea for the painting and its prominent placement. “Alec really likes Rice-A-Roni, so Brendan put Rice-A-Roni in it,” Ms. Baldwin said. “But, Alec, I’ve actually never seen you eat Rice-A-Roni.”

Mr. Baldwin shrugged.

A well-worn armchair is in the corner of a wood-paneled room that has a well-used fireplace.

He bought the estate for $1.75 million in 1995. It was his second purchase in Amagansett, the first being a small cottage near Atlantic Avenue Beach and south of Montauk Highway. He’d fallen in love with the hamlet of about 1,000 people when he began his career on soap operas. He’d grown up two or so hours west in the Long Island suburb of Massapequa, and Amagansett and the Hamptons seemed a world away. “My father brought us to Montauk a couple of times. It was expensive,” Mr. Baldwin said, before adding, “This is not Long Island.”

Two children walk toward a farmhouse.

The sprawling grounds were considered to be in an undesirable part of the Hamptons. “When I looked at this property, no one moved north of Montauk Highway and spent any money,” Mr. Baldwin recalled. “So when I bought it, I thought, I probably have to get rid of it because it was a mistake. But several years went by, and I’m like, ‘This is great. I love it because it’s private.’”

Mr. Baldwin, then married to Ms. Basinger, hired the architect Francis Fleetwood in 1996 to expand the eastern portion of the historic home, which was built by Nathaniel Baker in 1735.After Mr. Baldwin married Hilaria, the couple hired the architect Fred Throo to do the next 1,400-square-foot addition, which includes a large adult living room and en suite.

A kitchen has exposed beams on the ceiling, black and white checkered flooring, stools with light blue cushions and an island filled with fruits.

Ms. Baldwin began the transformation by emptying out the kitchen pantry, which was filled with expired items.

“I picked the pantry because I didn’t think he was going to care,” she said. “But he was furious.”

“That was the beginning of the whole thermonuclear reaction of you taking over the house,” Mr. Baldwin said. “She started out slowly, and then it was like a coup d’état.”

Also in the kitchen, Ms. Baldwin changed the lighting, a section of the floor, and bought new bar stools for the custom-built 57-inches-by-104-inches island that originally featured a limestone countertop.

“Limestone is not a great idea because it gets chipped,” said Ms. Baldwin. “And the name of the game in this house, especially as we had more and more children, is durability.”

She replaced the limestone with Glassos.

Ms. Baldwin also took advantage of what was already there. Mr. Baldwin rarely used the kitchen’s six-burner Viking gas stove. “I made a cup of tea every now and then,” Mr. Baldwin said. “Now this thing is like the eternal flame in Arlington. It’s never off.”

A well-appointed room has a banquette with a round table filled with various items, including a large bouquet of roses in a vase.

A small room off the living room was initially meant to store wine. But Mr. Baldwin is sober, and Ms. Baldwin rarely drinks, so the space became a puzzle room where no one in the family works on puzzles.

“I love puzzles, but the issue is I get hyper-focused,” Ms. Baldwin said. “Like, I don’t want to stop. So I’ll sit there until I finish it, which is not a very responsible thing to do as a parent. One day, when my youngest is 18, I’ll have to find a puzzle room that has doors.”

“I’ll be dead at that point,” Mr. Baldwin quipped.

A cozy arm chair is in the corner of a wall of bookshelves, near a fireplace.

The library, which is surrounded by wood cabinetry, is a shrine to Mr. Baldwin’s 45-year acting career. On the bookshelves are three Golden Globes and three Emmy Awards, two for his portrayal of network executive Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom “30 Rock” and the third for playing President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live.” Copies of Mr. Baldwin’s 2017 “Nevertheless: A Memoir” and Ms. Baldwin’s 2025 book “Manual Not Included” are also displayed.

“30 Rock,” Mr. Baldwin said, was the best job he’s ever had. “When it was over, I thought, I’ll never have this again. I’ll never have this kind of writing again.”

For his recurring “Saturday Night Live” portrayal of Donald Trump from 2016 until 2020, Mr. Baldwin won a Peabody Award and an Emmy.

“My Emmy for playing Trump was among the last vestiges of the old political consciousness of the entertainment industry,” Mr. Baldwin said. “They were allowed to do that then. Now they are all getting canceled and turned off if you mock him.”

Ms. Baldwin’s 2014 Emmy for her correspondent work on the entertainment program “Extra” is also in the library.

“I used to hide it because everybody was like, ‘Oh, it’s one of Alec’s,’” Ms. Baldwin said. “But I just took it out of the box the other day. I really loved working on that show. It was fun.”

A well-appointed bathroom is anchored by a deep free-standing tub. The decor is white.

In the couple’s primary bathroom, Ms. Baldwin can often be found making Instagram videos of herself exercising or doing yoga.

Near an MTI SculptureStone handcrafted tub is a small table with a 2021 Valentine’s Day card from Mr. Baldwin to his wife. His mother, Carol Baldwin, who died in 2022, painted it.

Ms. Baldwin isn’t a Valentine’s Day person. “I want people to be happy all the time,” Ms. Baldwin said. “That is the kind of person I am, but when it comes to writing it down, I’m just not as good with that. And also, when you get a card from someone and have to read it in front of them, I get very uncomfortable. I’m a Capricorn. But Alec is an Aries. He loves a card. He loves an emotional moment.”

The Baldwin children play on an elaborate jungle gym on a lawn.

The couple’s seven children — Carmen, 12, Rafael, 10, Leonardo, 8, Romeo, 7, Eduardo, 4, Maria, 4, Ilaria, 2 — frequent the estate’s lush backyard, with its playground and pool.

A large swimming pools surrounded by a lawn that includes children’s play equipment and a pink barbecue grill made to look like a pig.

Built in 1996 and remodeled in 2014, the 20-by-50-foot pool is lined with blue and white tiles that remind Ms. Baldwin of her family, who live in Spain.

Close by is a Traeger Lil’ Pig free-standing pellet grill that Mr. Baldwin’s 29-year-old daughter, Ireland Baldwin, gave to her father a few years ago as a gift for Father’s Day. The grill was a jest nod to a voice mail message Mr. Baldwin left her when she was just 11 years old. In the viral voice mail, he called her a “rude, thoughtless little pig.” Mr. Baldwin later apologized.

“My daughter, Ireland, has a great sense of humor, and she sent me that to commemorate some unusual moment we had together,” said Mr. Baldwin, who for years hid the grill in a small playhouse on the property. “A couple of weeks ago, Ireland, her husband and her daughter came to visit. Hilaria and Ireland have a similar sense of humor, which is at my expense pretty uniformly. So, we brought it out and cooked on it.”

A sunroom is filled with random objects, including a cat house and a finger painting on the floor. A cat is lying on the floor near the painting.

Mr. Baldwin’s children have helped to shape the décor and how the rooms of the house are actually used. A glass-enclosed porch off the den overlooks five acres of agricultural reserve. The room was transformed into an art area after the couple’s first child, Carmen, was born in 2013.

On the room’s stone floor is large painted floor mat that Carmen created during the pandemic. Mr. Baldwin said he has plans to frame the piece, which is 58 inches by 48 inches.

“Jackson Pollock has nothing on my daughter,” he joked.

Alec, Hilaria and Ilaria Baldwin pose for a photo in a kitchen that has a black and white checkered floor.

In 2021, Alec and Hilaria made plans to renovate the art room and build additional bedrooms on top of it. But those plans were nixed in 2022 when they put the house on the market. The initial asking price was $29 million, with the idea that they could spend their time in the West Village apartment or in their other home on a 55-acre lot in Vermont. Their summers, they thought at the time, could be spent in Europe.

Alec, Hilaria and Ilaria Baldwin pose for a photo in a kitchen that has a black and white checkered floor.

“But we keep coming back here because the kids are very happy. They love it here. When I go up to the kids and go, ‘Want to sell the house?’, they go crazy.”

Alec, Hilaria and Ilaria Baldwin pose for a photo in a kitchen that has a black and white checkered floor.

The couple accepted an offer to sell the house in 2024, but changed their minds.

Alec, Hilaria and Ilaria Baldwin pose for a photo in a kitchen that has a black and white checkered floor.

“It’s a kid’s home that I never want to leave,” Mr. Baldwin said.

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