Whoopi Goldberg's House (former)

Whoopi Goldberg is an actor, comedian, and talk-show host who won an Oscar for Ghost and joined The View in 2007. She is among the few performers to hold an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony.

The main house is an 1890 Victorian, and Goldberg held it for 30 of its first 125 years. A second building and 5 garages share the property behind it.

The back building has the stranger past. Neighborhood tales relayed by Yahoo Homes say the barn went up in 1900, sheltered horse-drawn ambulances, and was later fortified for use as a community center.

Goldberg moved to Berkeley in the late 1970s and bought this place in 1985 for $335,000, according to property records cited by Yahoo Homes. That was the year The Color Purple reached theaters.

NBC Bay Area reported that she bought it under her birth name, Caryn Johnson. Berkeley is also where she developed The Spook Show, the one-woman piece that led to her Broadway break.

How much she used the place is disputed. SFist wrote in 2015 that it was unclear, while neighbors quoted by Yahoo Homes said she stayed off and on in the barn.

Those neighbors said her brother, Clyde, cared for their mother here until her death in 2010, though SFist placed him in Los Angeles. He died in May 2015, and the property sold that summer for nearly double her price.