A North Avondale mansion once owned by CNN founder Ted Turner’s mother was recently listed for sale for $1.17 million.
The media mogul, entrepreneur and philanthropist, whose real name is Robert Turner III, was born in Cincinnati in 1938 but moved with his family to Savannah, Georgia, when he was 9.
His mother, Florence Turner, bought the North Avondale property at 3848 Dakota Ave. after she and her husband, Robert Turner Jr., divorced in 1957, and she moved back to Cincinnati.
Ted Turner stayed in Georgia and eventually took over his father’s advertising company, which he later remade into the Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting System television and media conglomerate, founded in 1965.
His mother sold her North Avondale home in 1964 to a local family that owned it until it was acquired last spring by Mount Adams-based Saab Realty LLC for $520,000, Hamilton County property records show.
The more than 4,800-square-foot house built in 1906 has been completely remodeled, according to Saab.