The deed on the white, clapboard-and-brick house at 41 Armour Rd. was recorded on August 16.
"It's an extremely uncharming...ordinary-looking, mundane American house," Rudenstine said. "It has no obvious distinctive architectural or other qualities."
But the house can only be called modest by comparison to the surrounding neigborhood, experts on Princeton realty say. Two to three blocks away on Hodge Road, houses are in the $2 to $3 million range. Former Princeton President Robert F. Goheen is less than a block away.
"It's in an area near the university that's populated by a lot of professors and tree-lined streets," said Sandy Duffy, an agent with Coldwell Banker in Princeton. "For the neighborhood that surrounds it, it's probably one of the smaller houses."
--Staff writer Joshua E. Gewolb can be reached at gewolb@fas.harvard.edu.
--Staff writer Catherine E. Shoichet contributed to the researching of this article.