Got $9 million and a hankering for living history? You could buy up the historic home in Georgetown that Jackie Kennedy purchased after her husband’s assassination.
Washington Fine Properties is listing the 1794 brick home for $8.995 million. While the current posting went up yesterday, the house was previously listed back in June for $9.75 million.
There’s video online of Kennedy and her family moving into the N St. property in 1964:
However, the family didn’t stay there for too long. According to Washingtonian:
Jackie bought 3017 N Street after her husband’s assassination and intended to make it her permanent home, but she found it untenable to raise John Jr. and Caroline in the Georgetown fishbowl, where tour buses often parked outside their front door. She moved to New York City in 1964.
Most recently, Yolande Betbeze Fox, the 1951 Miss America who used her platform to advocate for civil rights, lived there.
The federal-style home, declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976, boasts seven bedrooms, five-and-a-half bathrooms, and three fireplaces, according to Redfin. It’s just one of the Georgetown properties formerly held by the Kennedy clan, which also include another N Street brick residence from which John F. Kennedy departed to take the presidential oath of office, according to Ghosts of D.C.
It’s a boon for Kennedy-ites this year, with the release of the film Jackie coming up in December. In the film, Natalie Portman plays the former first lady in the days after her husband’s assassination (scenes were filmed in D.C. in February).
Rachel Kurzius