Julianne Moore's Apartment: Inside Her New Greenwich Village Duplex

The Julianne Moore apartment tour is Architectural Digest's November 2026 cover story. The actor and her husband, film director Bart Freundlich, have left the West Village town house where they raised their two children and moved to a two-bedroom duplex "smack in the center of the Village," AD reports. The apartment sits on a high floor of a 1920s building that was originally built as a residential hotel, and its sprawling terraces helped make up for the garden she left behind. "It feels very serene here," Moore told AD.

Why Julianne Moore left her West Village town house

Moore told AD that for years she wanted to live in a town house, "but that desire morphed as the kids got older. Lives change." The family had a cottage in Montauk, she said, and as their children grew up they moved to a bigger house there. That beach house freed the couple from needing a big place in the city, so they decided to downsize, AD reports. The Julianne Moore house they left had a garden created with designer Brian Sawyer and was featured in AD twice, in March 2012 and November 2017, according to CNN.

She had noticed the apartment before it came on the market. "I had always wanted this apartment," Moore told AD. "I had spotted it when I was wandering." AD does not report a purchase price, and neither do People or CNN.

Inside the Julianne Moore New York home

Every window takes in the city views Moore loves, AD writes: water towers, decorative brick and tilework, arches and columns, and rooftop gardens. In AD's video tour, Moore says the apartment is on the roof of the building, that it has several terraces, and that she and her husband share one terrace with close friends. Moore told AD that most units in the building are studios or one-bedrooms, which brings "a diverse group" of neighbors. "It's super funky," she said.

The renovation took eight months and was the sixth project Moore has done with her brother-in-law, AD100 architectural designer Oliver Freundlich, who also worked on the family's earlier West Village homes. "Most of the changes we made were cosmetic," Moore told AD, crediting the previous owner of 20 years with "exquisite taste." Freundlich said they kept the layout but did "a lot of editing, reducing patterns, simplifying, adding storage." The kitchen, wrapped in its original steel-framed windows, has no upper cabinets, so they added a pantry next to it. In the primary bedroom, an angled wall made a closet tricky, but Freundlich fit one in while leaving room for a king-size bed and floor space for Moore's yoga, AD reports.

Old favorites and new pieces

Moore mixed things she already owned with pieces bought for the new place. From the old house came a Paavo Tynell light fixture that now hangs in the kitchen, shades made from fabric once used for curtains, and dining chairs she bought in Paris in 1995. "They've been in every house I've had since," she told AD. New additions include a Pierre Chapo table in the entry, a Raoul Guys table in the kitchen and living room seating by Charles Pfister for Knoll.

AD's photo captions also point out a George Nakashima coffee table and artworks by Louise Bourgeois and Nan Goldin in the living room, and Moore's Academy Award on a shelf in the entry/library. Moore and Oliver Freundlich considered removing the library's taupe-lacquered bookcases, a color the previous owner had worked out with color expert Donald Kaufman, but decided to keep them. For the living room fireplace they chose a geometric, softly finished marble mantel, now topped with cast-bronze objects Moore made herself. "I love modernism," Moore told AD. "But this apartment is prewar, and you have to address that."

Celebrity homes in New York: why Moore stayed downtown

AD contrasts Moore with celebrities who choose Manhattan buildings with private entrances and discreet staff, calling her and Freundlich "engaged downtown New Yorkers." People calls the Still Alice actress, 65, "The Debut star." In that new Jesse Eisenberg film, AD reports, Moore plays a housewife who becomes a passionate but struggling method actor after landing a small role at her local community theater. For Moore, the new apartment keeps her in the neighborhood she loves. "I wanted a sense of history, of time, of all the people who have lived here before us," she told AD. "That's the magic of New York City."