J.D. Salinger’s former home for sale

J.D. Salinger’s former home in Cornish, N.H., is for sale for $679,000.  (Jim Mauchly / Mountain Graphics Photography)

The house was purchased by J.D. Salinger in 1953, the year “Nine Stories” was published.  (Jim Mauchly / Mountain Graphics Photography)

The open-plan kitchen opens to dining room, which includes a brick fireplace at right.  (Jim Mauchly / Mountain Graphics Photography)

the former J.D. Salinger home was built in 1939.  (Jim Mauchly / Mountain Graphics Photography)

Salinger’s house is secluded, of course, located down a 1½-mile dirt road.  (Jim Mauchly / Mountain Graphics Photography)

Salinger sold the house in the 1960s.   (Jim Mauchly / Mountain Graphics Photography)

A vintage fireplace upstairs in the former home of J.D. Salinger that’s for sale.  (Jim Mauchly / Mountain Graphics Photography)

An upstairs hallway of J.D. Salinger’s former home.  (Jim Mauchly / Mountain Graphics Photography)

A spare bedroom in J.D. Salinger’s former house. His character Seymour Glass would have had to stoop to sit on one of these beds.  (Jim Mauchly / Mountain Graphics Photography)

A workshop in Salinger’s house holds many books.  (Jim Mauchly / Mountain Graphics Photography)

The former Salinger property includes a studio apartment above the garage.  (Jim Mauchly / Mountain Graphics Photography)

Salinger’s house sits on 12 acres and has its own stream. It’s nice to think he might have written here.  (Jim Mauchly / Mountain Graphics Photography)