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Viet Dinh, one of the lead architects of the Patriot Act, and attorney Jennifer Ashworth Dinh have purchased TRACY PLACE NW for $3,995,000. Built in 1927, the four-level Georgian is listed in the L’Enfant Historic Register and has seven bedrooms including an au pair suite and a luxurious master suite with a fireplace and two separate bathrooms; one with a soaking tub, the other with a jacuzzi. External features include Ionic columns, dormer windows, a spiral staircase and an open air shower set in a limestone courtyard.Viet Dinh came to America as a Vietnamese refugee and went on to earn a scholarship to Harvard Law School. He clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Conner and later served on Sen. Alphonse D’Amato’s Whitewater committee and on Sen. Pete Domenici’s Clinton impeachment trial task force. In 1999, he became a tenured professor of Law at Georgetown University and from 2001 to 2003 was an assistant attorney general. He is also the founder of Bancroft Associates, a District law and consulting firm where his wife works. The Dinhs were represented by Paul Pike and Alex Venditti with Tutt, Taylor & Rankin Sotheby’s International. Previously the couple lived in a fourbedroom Beaux-Arts home built in 1914 along the Potomac in Alexandria,Va., which they bought in 2006 for $4.08 million. Prior to that they owned a five-bedroom Beaux-Arts townhouse in Kalorama. Washington Fine Properties’ Jim Bell represented the sellers David and Kirsten Pollin. Pollin is the nephew of Washington Wizard’s owner Abe Pollin and WL readers may recall that he and his wife now own “Beechwoods,� the former home of Franklin D. Raines, the former chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae. Washington Fine Properties’ Bobbie Brewster assisted Stephen and Alison Adkins in their purchase of BANCROFT PLACE NW The property was listed for $3,999,000. Located in Kalorama, just across the street from Mitchell Park, the 1923 Georgian was previously owned by Joe and Olga Hirshhorn and more recently was home to George Washington University President Stephen Trachtenberg and his wife, Francine. Coldwell Banker agents Martin Toews and Jeff Brier represented George Washington University in the sale of this impressive property, which the Adkins plan to restore to its original architectural glory.
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The five-bedroom, nine-bath residence at 6661 Sorrell Street in McLean boasts an expansive lawn for outdoor entertaining. It recently sold for $3,995,000.
After spending a year renovating a plantation home in Georgia, Doug Johnson and Brett Copeland have returned to Washington and spent $1,675,000 for WYOMING AVENUE NW in Kalorama.The four-story house was built in 1914 and has approximately 3,000 squarefeet of interior living space with four bedrooms, plus a two-bedroom in-law suite. Noteworthy features include Palladian windows in the sitting room, an enclosed porch off the master bath, slate terrace with a fountain in the rear courtyard, and a sun deck atop the two-car garage.The property was listed by Washington Fine Properties’ Cecelia Leake for the seller Dr. Monique Yuan, who practices Endodontics in Gaithersburg with her husband, Dr. Jason Fields.
Washington Fine Properties’ Victoria Kilcullen has helped sell and CHAIN BRIDGE ROAD to Katherine Kim and Francisco Asin Fernandez who plan to build a large house overlooking the Potomac River.The buyers paid $4,125,000 for their three-acre parcel of prime real estate in prestigious McLean.The seller was Scott Stupay of International Capital Advisors. Washington Fine Properties’ Bill Moody and Robert Hryniewicki were the listing agents. Chuck Vance, the former Secret Service agent for President Gerald R. Ford who went on to marry the boss’s daughter, Susan, and found his own international security company has sold CREST LANE, the home he shared for more than a decade with his current wife, Cynthia, along McLean’s “Gold Coast.� Among its selling points are striking entertainment areas, MARYLAND In Bethesda, Bradington Corp has sold six bedrooms, seven full baths, an exercise room, HUNTINGTON PARKWAY to economist Ilyse theater, billiards room, and separate guest suite A. Zable for $1.48 million. The six-bedroom above the three-car garage.The grounds feature residence was designed and constructed by a free-form pool with a waterfall that feeds into GTM Architects and Block Builders and boasts a whirlpool spa. The Vances wanted $4,275,000 luxurious finishes and quality craftsmanship. for their Fairfax County home but settled for Highlights of the four-level, nearly 6,000- $3,550,000 after the house sat on the market square-foot house include nine-foot ceilings with for more than a year. Kimberly Casey with Tutt, decorative moldings and numerous upgrades Taylor & Rankin Sotheby’s International Realty such as a built-in sound system and top-of-the- helped facilitate the sale. Eldo Mathew has sold SORRELL line kitchen appliances and bath fixtures. STREET in McLean. The house has seven full and two half baths, five fireplaces, three porches, VIRGINIA In McLean’s Woodside Estates, a family room, game and exercise rooms, and DIXIE PLACE has sold for $3,205,000 in a a large rear lawn that is perfect for outdoor pre-construction bid by Usha Hakkal and Dr. entertaining. The property was listed for Halappa G. Hakkal, a diagnostic radiologist and $3,995,000 by Weichert realtor Karen Briscoe of former professor at Georgetown University the Huckaby/Briscoe Group. Long and Foster’s Hospital. The seller is Nader Raeisinia, owner Diane Lewis represented the purchasers. of Solitaire Homes.The deal calls for a custom- Please send real estate news items to built home situated on a two-acre cul-de-sac. columns@washingtonlife.com
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