Eva Amurri’s Westport

Most luxury listings arrive as finished objects, a developer's spec, photographed and priced. 16 Westport Avenue is a story about how it got made, and who made it.

Actress and Happily Eva After founder Eva Amurri, daughter of Susan Sarandon, and one of Westport's local residents, didn't just tour this house. She's part of its origin story. Amurri and builder The O'Dell Group have a longstanding relationship rooted in the same few square miles of Fairfield County, and 16 Westport Avenue is the clearest expression yet of a different, more communal way of building: designers, craftspeople, neighbors, and a local agent (Karen Scott's KMS team at Compass) pulled into one table rather than a chain of subcontractors who never meet.

The result is a home with a hyper-local soul and an international address book, and that tension is this home’s story.

The partnership started as a collaboration, long before it was ever a listing. The Westport Project began as a genuine creative collaboration between Amurri and Chris O'Dell of The O'Dell Group, to build a net-zero smart home from the ground up, steps from the sand at Compo Beach, and Amurri has documented the entire build as an online docuseries on her YouTube, from demolition to pouring concrete, to putting on finishing touches. She brings real credibility to it: she's run her lifestyle brand Happily Eva After for a decade, built a following on candid, deeply reported home content, and lived the work herself, having gut-renovated her own historic Westport home in 2018 with Chris O’Dell.

That gives her a rare double authority here, she's both the tastemaker who can vouch for the Westport lifestyle to a global audience and the hands-on creative who understands, and can speak from experience about what's inside the walls. For an international buyer who has never set foot on Compo Beach, she is a trusted guide to the community they'd be buying into.

About The House: A Category of Its’ Own.

16 Westport Avenue was engineered to outlast the coast it sits on. Beneath the white oak and stone is a continuous concrete-and-steel core, engineered for sustained winds well beyond the strongest Atlantic storms on record; Mold-resistant, fire-resistant, and salt-air-immune. As Amurri puts it in the latest episode of The Westport Project, "I'm so enormously proud to have been a part of this project. Anyone who walks into this space and sees what has transpired in order to bring this vision to fruition can understand the feeling that anybody involved with this project might have. We did exactly what we set out to do."

This is where the collaboration shows its hand. The same team that brought designers, craftspeople, and neighbors to one table engineered a home that can take care of itself: rooftop solar tied to an integrated Tesla Powerwall, radiant floors, energy-recovery ventilation that delivers fresh, filtered air to every room, and automatic leak detection with water shut-off. The result is a nearly $7M home that doesn't flinch when the block goes dark, the lights simply stay on, no generator hum. It's the resilience story luxury sustainability coverage keeps reaching for, made concrete, and proof of what a community of builders can do when they build for the long haul, not the quick flip.

Built by craftsmen who answer the phone after closing.

It was neither a flip, nor decorator's best-guess, and certainly has no value-engineered substitutions. One team designed this home, built it, and can still help customize it, with optional ongoing house management long after the keys change hands. What that craftsmanship delivers is a home Westport has been waiting for with four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, panoramic Long Island Sound views, a heated gunite pool and spa, and a rooftop with a gas fireplace. Eva Amurri can vouch for it better than any brochure could, this is the Westport lifestyle she knows and loves, the quiet beach street, the year-round spa, the dinner parties that end up on the roof, now built to a global standard and ready for a buyer to step into from anywhere in the world.

The proof of that partnership is already in print.

The historic Westport home she and The O'Dell Group reimagined earned a 17-page spread in HGTV Magazine, introducing a national audience to their work years before this house broke ground. 16 Westport Avenue is the next chapter, and the most ambitious one: not a home dressed up to sell, but one engineered to be lived in for decades. For the buyer who has been waiting for the Westport life to arrive fully formed, on the water, built to last, and vouched for by someone who actually lives it, this is the rare listing where the story and the substance are one and the same.

• Address: 16 Westport Avenue, Westport, CT 06880 (Compo Beach)
• Price: $6,995,000
• Builder: The O'Dell Group
• Listed with: Karen Scott, KMS Team at Compass
• Spec: 4 BR / 4.5 BA · new construction · net-zero–capable
• Story muse / Lifestyle Influencer / video host: Eva Amurri (Happily Eva After)
• Highlights: concrete-and-steel core · rooftop solar + Tesla Powerwall · smart-home control (lighting, shades, audio, climate, security) · heated gunite pool + spa · rooftop terrace w/ gas fireplace · white-oak + stone interiors · floor-to-ceiling Sound views · universal-design primary suite