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Art collector and educator Peggy Cooper Cafritz, whose massive 15,000 sq. ft. home was wrecked by fire in 2009, taking with it most of her two-decade long art collection, has decide not to return to the home.
Nov 23, 2009
Cafritz Suffers Second Fire
Cripes, Peggy Cooper Cafritz can’t seem to catch a break. After her Chain Bridge Road mansion burned to the ground over the summer, she had another fire just a couple of weeks ago in the Georgetown apartment where she’s been staying since, the Reliable Source reports today. Luckily, this most recent fire was confined to the laundry room, “but smoke invaded every cranny, and all her clothing had to be cleaned to remove the acrid…