Six Presidential Properties for Sale

As President Obama finishes up his second term and makes way for Donald Trump, whose inauguration is on Friday, we’re taking a look at six homes for sale around the U.S. with links to past, present and future presidents, as well as their close families.

JOHN F. KENNEDY AND JACKIE KENNEDY’S WEEKEND RETREAT:

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A modest ranch near Middleburg, Virginia, which John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, built in the early 1960s is decidedly less known than the glitzy Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. The former first lady designed it herself as a weekend retreat away from the White House, but sadly the family only spent three weekends there before JFK was assassinated in 1963. The property was sold a few months later.

The four-bedroom property, which she named Wexford after the Irish county where her husband’s ancestors lived, is currently back on the market for $5.95 million. This is down from $7.95 million in September 2015 and $10.99 million when it first was put up for sale in 2013.

JACKIE KENNEDY ONASSIS’S CHILDHOOD SUMMER HOUSE:

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Another Kennedy-linked property for sale is the “Lasata” estate in the Hamptons, designed by architect Arthur C. Jackson and built in 1917. It’s famous for being the Bouvier family’s summer home during the 1920s and 1930s and was where future first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (simply known as Jacqueline Bouvier in those days), spent her childhood vacations. Set on more than seven acres of land in posh East Hampton Village near the ocean, it includes a 10-bedroom house that was restored in 2007, a one-bedroom guest house, a two-bedroom pool house and a three-car garage building.  

It’s currently owned by fashion designer and ex-Coach creative director Reed Krakoff and is on the market for $38.995 million. Adjacent land can be purchased for $14.995 million.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR’S SUMMER WHITE HOUSE:

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The Hamptons was not only a favorite vacation haunt with the Bouviers. Chester A. Arthur, who became the 21st president in 1881 after his predecessor James Garfield was assassinated, spent some of his down time in a property dubbed the “Summer White House” in Sag Harbor, according to listing agent Michaela Keszler of Douglas Elliman Real Estate. That was long before the Hamptons became the trendy vacation spot it is today.

The three-story, six bedroom Victorian mansion, which was built in 1796 and has been recently renovated, is for sale with a $14.2 million price tag. Features include a library with fireplace, a formal dining and living room and a family room overlooking the garden and swimming pool.