Posted on 07/15/2007 5:43:49 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, has again cut the asking price on her McLean, Va., estate, this time to $12.5 million, from $25 million when it went up for sale in 2003.
John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, bought the 12-bedroom mansion in 1953 shortly after he joined the U.S. Senate. In 1957 the future president sold the home to his brother, who raised his 11 children there. Set on more than five acres, the 19th-century mansion has 18 rooms, 10½ baths and 12 fireplaces. The property also includes a pool, pool house, tennis court and stables.
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I would think the Kennedy mystique would be more of a factor than anyhting else. They aren’t as popular as they used to be, or she has a reallly terrible agent.
Maybe the place is somewhat "worn." Can you imagine the wear and tear from raising that brood of kids there? It's a wonder the place is still standing. Not to mention the menagerie of critters they always kept on the place.
Termites.
Any pictures?
For real?
Maybe it’s the dead and buried hos that all the kennedy’s had during their miserable lives.
The Kennedy jinx?
Dude, KENNEDYS lived there. It’s probably a Hellmouth, or something. It would certainly need an exorcism and fumigation before becoming habitable.
if kennedys lived there ...it would be cheaper to burn it and start over!!!!
The Kennedy’s don’t do any UPKEEP on their houses from what I’ve seen.
skeletons in the closets?
Their clan headquarters may have been in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, but the true center of the Kennedy political dynasty in the Fifties and Sixties was Hickory Hill, the Virginia home of Robert and Ethel Kennedy. It was a “wild, informal mixture of a children’s playground, upbeat discotheque, and a humming political headquarters,” described one regular visitor. Invitations to Hickory Hill were highly coveted, and no place better expressed the personality of its owners.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rfk/peopleevents/e_hickoryhill.html
Thanks!
Taxes: $62,079.00
No central air (window units) with fuel oil and electric baseboard heat.
In short, an energy pig with high taxes.
Sounds like the Kennedy’s alright.
'One of the first things any visitor noticed was the sheer number of children and animals running around the place. "There were lots of kids," remembers one of them, Kathleen Kennedy Townshend. "There were plenty of horses, many dogs, chickens, geese, goats. It was a menagerie... my brother Bobby collected reptiles. And actually the turtle was in the laundry room. The sea lion was in the swimming pool."'
The carpets are a mess, I just bet...
Where’s my check book?
Sorry, I’m just speculating.
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