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Pedigreed Architecture Former diplomat Nancy Rubin parts with her residence of 35 years in Kent, a longtime family home in Rosedale changes hands for more than $3 million in Cleveland Park and the classic Georgian Edmund Jennings Lee House sells in Old Town for more than $2.6 million.
Nancy and Miles Rubin sold CHAIN BRIDGE ROAD NW, their home of 35 years, for $5.7 million to an undisclosed buyer. Mrs. Rubin served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and worked domestically and internationally with government, the U.N., NGOs and public-private partnerships for more than three decades. Mr. Rubin is an attorney and the founder of Miles Electric Vehicles. The seven-bedroom 1940s Italianate mansion in Kent features beautifully landscaped gardens that are perfect for al fresco entertaining, a large swimming pool and views of Battery Kemble Park. The property was listed by William F. X. Moody, Robert Hryniewicki, Adam Rackliffe and Christopher Leary.
THE DISTRICT The McBride’s sold their former residence,
ND STREET NW , a crown jewel of the American University Park, for $2.52 million to The Lawrence J. Gianinno Trust with the help of listing agent Anne-Marie Finnell. The iconic 1936 Georgian Colonial
retains the classic grandeur of years past while offering all modern amenities. The six-bedroom house sits on a lush 1/3-acre lot with a luxe outdoor slate terrace. The property also features a gourmet kitchen with a butler’s pantry, a lower-level recreation room and an au pair suite. Washington Fine
Properties’ Kerry Fortune represented the buyer. Washington, D.C. restaurateur and Thievery Cor poration co-founder Eric Hilton purchased CALIFORNIA STREET NW in Kalorama for $2.85 million from Michael
Celia Faulkner Crawford sold TH STREET NW to to Dr. Lucy and Thaddeus McBride for $3,295,000. Mr. McBride is a partner in the international trade department of the Bass, Berry & Sims law firm while Dr. McBride is on the clinical staff at Sibley Memorial Hospital and a physician with Foxhall Internists. Crawford shared the home with her late husband, Bill Crawford, a retired American career diplomat and expert on the Middle East and Cyprus. The iconic Cleveland Park house is a unique and architecturally significant property that was designed in 1940 by noted Washington architect Waldron Faulkner (Mrs. Crawford’s father), whose family occupied the original Rosedale property. It was enlarged in 1992 by Waldron’s son, Winthrop Faulkner, also an accomplished architect. Its older section is both elegant and charming, boasting three en suite bedrooms, a sitting room, a kitchen and a sweeping great room with two sets of tall French doors opening to a covered loggia and sheltered rear terrace and garden. Washington Fine Properties’ Heidi Hatfield and Anne Hatfield Weir were the listing agents; TTR Sotheby’s International Realty’s Anne-Marie Finnell was the buyer’s agent.
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