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Kalorama Castles Robert McNamara’s former house sells for $6.1 million, Susan Vest sells family home on Belmont Road BY STAC E Y G R A Z I E R P FA R R
paneling. The house holds THE DISTRICT Susan Vest sold BELMONT ROAD the current record for highest NW IN KALORAMA for $4,350,000.The grand selling price in the Kalorama Tudor mansion, which was her family home neighborhood. for over 40 years, overlooks Rock Creek Park Joan Ridder Challinor and sits on a 15,000-square-foot private lot. sold HAWTHORNE The eight-bedroom, eight-bath house built in STREET NW for just under 1928 includes a library and six-car garage.TTR $1.8 million to Nicholas Sotheby’s International Realty’s Jonathan Taylor and Jacqueline Perrins. Dr. and Michael Rankin represented the seller, Challinor was appointed by while Alex Venditti and Paul Pike, also of TTR President Bill Clinton as the Sotheby’s, represented the buyers. chairwoman of the National Around the corner, TTR Sotheby’s Alex Commission on Libraries and Venditti and Paul Pike along with team Information Science in 1996. A stone manor house at 9808 member Shawn Breck sold a house that once She is currently a director of Bentcross Drive in Potomac recently belonged to former Secretary of Defense and media conglomerate Knightthe late Dr. Hector changed hands for $5.3 million. World Bank President Robert S. McNamara for Ridder (of which her late brother, Collison, a prominent $6.1 million. Many important discussions about Walter Ridder, was an executive). She is the local cardiologist who had nine practices in national and international policy took place in widow of the late David Challinor, a noted the Washington metropolitan area. The stone the banquet-sized dining room and study of the conservationist and top scientific administrator manor house was custom built in 2006 and 7,000-square-foot Kalorama residence at at the Smithsonian Institution and a champion is constructed of Turkish limestone with a TRACY PLACE NW over the years. In 2006, oarsmen who rowed competitively into his slate roof. The 11-bedroom, 13-bath estate the Italianate structure was fully renovated in 80s. Mr. Perrins is partner and CFO of Novus includes an indoor pool, marble floors, full“classic contemporary” style, which includes Energy Partners, a clean energy growth capital length outdoor sports complex, elevator, and a true chef ’s kitchen with Turkish limestone fund in Alexandria, which invests in wind and mahogany-paneled library. Dr. Collison and his solar power. He’s also co- 15-year-old son, Sean, died when their singlecounters, and formal library The Italianate-style mansion at founded X-10 Capital Partners; engine prop plane crashed in the Shenandoah with custom “floating” wood 2412 Tracy Place NW, once the a hedge fund focused on Forest in March 2008. Long & Foster’s Dianne home of Robert S. McNamara, recently sold for $6.1 million. telecommunications and Bailey was the listing agent but declined any technology sectors. The comment about the seller. four-bedroom, five-bath John Hechinger Jr. sold MOORLAND house in Woodley Park was LANE in Bethesda for $5,950,000. Hechinger’s built in 1940. late father was do-it-yourself home industry pioneer John Hechinger Sr.The family business, simply called “Hechinger,” grew from a single MARYLAND Connie Collison sold hardware shop to a 64-store home improvement BENTCROSS DRIVE chain, which once rivaled the likes of Home in Potomac for $5.3 million. Depot.The family sold the business to California The opulent 27,000- investors in the late 1990s. The English-style square-foot mansion was manor, dubbed “White Chimneys,” was built in to be the dream home for 1918 as one of five original residences in the the seller and her husband, Edgemoor neighborhood.
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