A Washington, D.C., home that housed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the period shortly after the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, is listing for $9.75 million.
Built in the 1790s, the roughly 7,000-square-foot Federal-style brick house has six bedrooms and staff quarters, according to listing agents Nancy Taylor Bubes and Jamie Peva of Washington Fine Properties. Its three stories can be accessed by an elevator, and a cupola at the top of the house offers views of the Potomac River.
The former First Lady moving into the Georgetown home.
PHOTO: CSU ARCHIVES/EVERETT COLLECTIONThe former First Lady moved into the home in 1964, shortly after the assassination, according to the book “American Legacy: The Story of John and Caroline Kennedy” by C. David Heymann. In June of that year, Ms. Onassis gave her testimony to the Warren Commission at the home. According to the book Ms. Onassis and her children moved to New York City after a short time, however, because the home left them too exposed to tourists and the press. The Kennedy family could not be reached for comment.
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Since the 1970s the house has been owned by Yolande Betbeze Fox, a former Miss America who passed away in February, according to her daughter, Dolly Fox. The younger Ms. Fox said her mother made few changes to the home, and elements of the house remain largely as they were when the Kennedy family lived there.
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