Within the late Nineteen Forties, a younger John Fitzgerald Kennedy moved to Washington D.C. as a brand new congressional consultant from Massachusetts the place he lived in a gorgeous red-brick house within the metropolis’s Georgetown neighborhood. In line with native legend, JFK first met Jacqueline Bouvier at a close-by neighborhood ceremonial dinner when launched by a mutual buddy. In line with the buddy, Jack reached throughout the desk for the asparagus and requested her for a date. In the present day, after intensive renovation and updating, the stately house is in the marketplace at $4.68 million.
Since Washington’s first days as America’s capital metropolis within the 1790s, politicians, lobbyists, and journalists have gravitated to the Georgetown neighborhood for the town’s greatest eating places, colleges, artwork galleries, quaint retailers, and houses. It has been house to Francis Scott Key and Alexander Graham Bell. Each Jack and Jackie Kennedy, previous to and after their marriage, lived there. The Clintons, Pamela and Averell Harriman, columnist Drew Individual, journalist Kitty Kelly, Henry Kissinger, and plenty of different of the nation’s movers and shakers have referred to as Georgetown house. With Georgetown College on the group’s doorstep, most of the capital’s embassies together with France, Sweden, and Thailand are additionally positioned within the Georgetown neighborhood. Well-known to movie followers, Georgetown has been the setting for a variety of films together with Topaz, St. Elmo’s Hearth, and The Exorcist.
On a tree-lined, cobblestone avenue, Kennedy’s former residence is positioned just a few blocks to Georgetown College and the Potomac River. The circa-1800, three-bedroom, four-bath home measures in at 4,659 sq. toes of residing area with massive home windows, excessive ceilings and is cheerful and shiny with sunshine spilling into the massive rooms. The bottom flooring has a dramatic lobby with a suspended round staircase, formal residing, and eating with a big entertaining terrace and a fantastically paneled library. The massive eat-in, lounge-in kitchen is up-to-the-minute in fashion and performance and the laundry room is spacious. Each inch of the residence has undergone intensive renovation and updating. Upstairs bedrooms and baths are cheerful and shiny with a personal terrace off the grasp that additionally has a fire.
Regardless of coming from one among America’s wealthiest households, Kennedy was not a lot of a house owner virtually at all times selecting to lease as an alternative of shopping for – together with his free White Home residence. He additionally had the limitless use of his mother and father’ mansions in Palm Seaside and the Kennedy Compound on Cape Cod.
The Georgetown house that JFK rented in his early congressional days is on the market at $4.68 million. The itemizing brokers are Christie-Anne Weiss and Christopher Ritzert of TTR Sotheby’s, Washington, D.C.
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