Jackie Kennedy’s ‘historic residence’ is now for sale — for $26.5 million. Take a look
A sprawling and historic Washington, D.C., estate recently hit the market for $26.5 million, according to a listing by Sotheby’s International Realty.
The storied Georgetown property — which dates as far back as 1794 — boasts several notable former residents, including Newton Baker, Woodrow Wilson’s secretary of war, and Yolande Fox, a former Miss America.
Yet, undoubtedly the most prominent name associated with the “historic residence” is that of first lady Jackie Kennedy, who lived there with her two children following the assassination of her husband.
No longer able to call the White House home, Mrs. Kennedy scooped up 3017 N St. —now one of three buildings on the estate — in 1964 for $195,000, according to the book “Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story.”
However, to Kennedy’s great dismay, her new home quickly became the premier tourist destination in all of Washington, according to C. David Heymann, the book’s author.
“That main house where Jackie lived is landlocked,” Maxwell Rabin, an associate at Sotheby’s, told McClatchy News, noting that privacy would have been difficult to ensure.
Onlookers flocked to the area, “double-parked in their own vehicles, obstructing traffic, chanting Jackie’s name over and over like a mantra,” Heymann wrote, adding “dozens of reporters and news photographers maintained a round-the-clock vigil, as did a battery of radio technicians and television crews.”
Not long after, on account of the exposure, Kennedy decided to move, decamping to New York City with her young children, according to the Wall Street Journal.
In the years that followed, few changes were made to the residence, according to the Journal.
But over the last decade, the property has been radically remodeled, Rabin said.
The most recent owner, David Hudgens, who founded a successful concrete company, elected to combine the main house with two adjoining properties, creating a complex spanning more than 16,000 interior square feet.
The estate has been “meticulously transformed to a modern showplace embracing the highest quality design, fixtures, and finishes,” according to Sotheby’s.
In total, the complex features 13 bedrooms, 13 full bathrooms and five half baths. The property, characterized by oak flooring and ornate molding, includes a large reception hall, an enclosed terrace, a gourmet kitchen and fireplace.
Incredibly high ceilings and bathrooms with “huge slabs of marble” invoke a sense of grandeur, Rabin said.
“It’s really unique in that it has three properties but you can travel fairly seamlessly between them,” Rabin said, adding that there is even a tunnel connecting two buildings — a feature that the former first lady no doubt would have been grateful for.
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