Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and her two adopted children are now comfortably ensconced in their $1.6 million, two-story, four-bedroom Colonial in McLean. District home at Brandywine Street� NW� in Forest Hills. Hartman listed his home with Long & Foster’s Charlie Hein for $949,000. Among the property’s principal selling points are the large formal living room, five bedrooms and sunroom nestled amid professionally landscaped gardens.The buyers are Texans Elijah and Virginia Marentette. Tutt, Taylor and Rankin agent Jim Firkser has Foxhall Crescent� NW� under contract with a list price of $1,769,000. The impressive four-bedroom home boasts an art deco façade, five and a half baths, a gorgeous patio and terraced gardens designed in the classical tradition. The current resident, Richard Drom, is a 1980 graduate of the University of Southern California Law School and has been a partner with Powell Goldstein, LLP for the past two years. Prior to joining Powell Goldstein Mr. Drom was a partner at Troutman Sanders. The prospective buyer has not yet been named.
MARYLAND
Mark and Sandra Rothman have sold Riverside Avenue in Cabin John, Maryland with the help of Coldwell Banker Residential agent Jane Fairweather. The couple received almost $1.7 million for their five-bedroom, fiveand-a-half-bath Tudor on the Potomac. The one acre waterfront property with spectacular views and ready access to the C&O towpath now belongs to Julie and Richard Smith. Mr. Smith is the senior vice president of Charles E. Smith, the largest commercial real estate organization in the Washington area. Fairweather was also the listing agent for
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McKinley Street in Bethesda. She represented architect Jim Lozoskie of Xsite, LLC, the company responsible for the home’s construction.The fivebedroom house was purchased for $1,575,000 by attorneys David Jasse and Jean Lin, who are with the Justice Department.
VIRGINIA
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and her two adopted children are now comfortably ensconced in their $1.6 million, two-story, fourbedroom Colonial in McLean. Still, the senator and her husband Ray say they will spend as much time as ever traveling in and around the Lone Star State and will keep their home in the Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas. The Hutchisons’ new Fairfax County home has 4,300 square-feet of living space and a large yard for daughter Bailey (who starts kindergarten this month) and four-year-old son Houston to play. For the last few years, the children had spent weekdays at the Senator’s Capitol Hill townhouse and weekends in Texas. James E. and Marilyn Knudson have sold their serene and secluded property at Windy Hill Road in McLean to Farshad and Panteha Ardalan Adlgostar for $1.2 million. Built in 1974, the unique contemporary home blends architecture with nature on over an acre of woodlands punctuated by perfectly landscaped gardens surrounding a pond. The thoughtfully constructed home brings the outdoors in with skylights, solariums and an abundance of windows. The home was designed by a custom builder for his own family and features an open floor plan with spacious rooms and high ceilings.
There are five bedrooms including a luxurious master suite featuring a two-level marble bath with a whirlpool tub, atrium and separate steam shower. In addition, the sunken living room has a wood-burning fireplace; the banquetsized dining room has vaulted ceilings; and the center island kitchen opens to a breakfast area and deck offering parkland vistas. There is also a family room adjacent to a media room, two home offices, loft, large attic, professional-sized workshop and two double garages with doors on each end. Sandra and Denis Rose with Long and Foster were the listing agents. Dr. Emmanuel G. Skordalakis and his wife Penny have moved into their new custom-built white brick home in Herndon, Virginia. The property, which cost the couple $2 million, was built by Elite Homes and is located at Forest Heights Court in Forest Heights. Dr. Skordalakis practices family and cosmetic dentistry and has a successful Sterling, Virginia office serving the Fairfax and Loudoun County areas. Mrs. Skordalakis works with Cambridge Associates, a U.K.-based investment consulting firm specializing in growing endowments for non-profits. Long and Foster realtor Sharon Hayman helped facilitate the sale. Please Send Real Estate News Items to: Mewborn@washingtonlife.com
Left to Right– James and Marilyn Knudson have sold 1339 Windy Hill Rd. in McLean to Farshad and Panteha Ardalan Adlgostar for $1.2 million. / Emmanuel and Penny Skordalakis paid $2 million for their custom-built home at 11800 Forest Heights Court in Herndon.
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