Inside Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' Pound Ridge House

Ryan Reynolds spent 2 decades as a comic lead before Deadpool turned him into a franchise in 2016. Blake Lively carried Gossip Girl for 6 seasons and then built a second career as a producer and brand founder. Together they make up one of the best-known couples in film, and they chose early on not to live in Los Angeles.

Home since late 2012 has been a farmstead in Pound Ridge, New York, a Westchester County town of about 5,000 people, 43 miles north of midtown Manhattan. The main house dates to the 1860s, and the story of how it reached them runs through a colonial game pound, the reservoir system that waters New York City, and a Depression-era rescue effort.

The farmstead anchors everything that follows, and it has a full profile on Velvet Ropes. We keep the exact address behind the velvet rope until you unlock it; the property record, the ownership trail, and the map pin are on Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' Pound Ridge home profile.

From a movie set to northern Westchester

Reynolds and Lively met on the set of Green Lantern, released in 2011, while each was attached to someone else. They stayed friends for about a year, then went on a double date with other partners and left it as a couple in the making. Reynolds later described that night as fireworks coming across the table.

They married on September 9, 2012, at Boone Hall in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, with about 70 guests and Florence Welch singing 3 songs at the reception. The venue was a former plantation, a choice the couple has since called a deep regret and apologized for publicly.

The Westchester roots came first, though. Months into dating, in early 2012, the pair bought a house along the Cross River Reservoir, then sold it in May 2013 after about a year. The keeper closed in November 2012, 2 months after the wedding: a Pound Ridge farmstead that one eonline.com profile later described as farmhouse style with historic details, looking out over a tree-lined reservoir. They have held it ever since.

An 1860s farmhouse with a Depression rescue story

The main house is a colonial farmhouse from around the 1860s. Elle Decor counts it among the Pound Ridge houses restored by Hiram Halle, and the grounds still carry the marks of a working farm: a barn, orchards, a stocked pond, old stone walls, and separate guest quarters.

Halle's fingerprints are all over the town. An oil-refining executive who arrived in 1929, he bought and restored more than 30 historic Pound Ridge buildings through the Depression, hiring local crews alongside Jewish refugees he helped bring out of Europe. 13 of his projects now sit on the National Register of Historic Places.

The town itself predates the United States. Farm families from Connecticut began settling it around 1730, it incorporated in 1788, and the name traces to a game pound that stood at the foot of a ridge, where the area's Native residents penned wild game.

Even the water in the view has a date stamp. New York City dammed the Cross River between 1906 and 1908 to add the Cross River Reservoir to its Croton supply system, and the reservoir still feeds the city's taps today.

A routine you could set a watch by

The 2 biggest movie stars in town keep a routine locals can recite. That same profile has the pair as regulars at the Inn at Pound Ridge, where Lively orders the chicken paillard salad, Reynolds orders the burger, and he sometimes takes a seat at the bar alone.

That restaurant has a past of its own. Jean-Georges Vongerichten reopened the roughly 200-year-old inn building in January 2014 after a full renovation; locals knew it for more than 40 years as Emily Shaw's Inn. A town over, the Bedford Post Inn, a 19th-century country inn, hosted Lively's second baby shower.

The rest of the loop is small-town stuff. The reporting counted a local cheese shop, a fine-foods shop, and a bakery among their regular stops, with owners who decline to talk about them. Per the same report, Martha Stewart lives around the corner, and Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones call the same town home.

The folklore kids

The couple's 4 kids, James, Inez, Betty, and Olin, have grown up on the farm. Reynolds confirmed all 4 names at the New York premiere of Deadpool & Wolverine in July 2024, which counts as chatty by this family's standards.

Taylor Swift, a close family friend and the kids' godmother, wrote the 3 oldest into the teenage love triangle on 2020's folklore. The song “betty” runs on the names James, Inez, and Betty, and its release was the first public confirmation of the third name. Reynolds said the couple trusts Swift implicitly with the names.

The Tribeca counterweight

When work keeps them in the city, there is an apartment in Tribeca, inside a 19th-century book bindery converted to lofts. The building was marketed as paparazzi-proof, with elevators that open straight into the units and a 75-foot indoor pool, and People ran a look inside the couple's place in 2024: bare brick, timber, and 11-foot ceilings.

Behind the ropes

The first house, the one on the reservoir they held for about a year, has a page of its own. For that short chapter, start with the couple's former Pound Ridge house profile.

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