A luxurious nine-bedroom mansion in Washington D.C. belonging to Donald Roth, founder of international private equity firm EMP Global and a former vice president of the World Bank, has sold for $8.6 million, according to reports.
Roth bought the home in 2001 for $3.75 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. Other famous Washington families that occupied this home include Martha Custis Kennon, the great-great-granddaughter of former first lady Martha Washington, and Laughlin Phillips, who worked at the CIA and was a founder of Washingtonian magazine.
The house, located at 3044 O Street, was built in 1870, the 10,736 square-foot, three-and-a-half-story, Queen Anne-style mansion features a large drawing room, dining room, and kitchen on the first floor, nine bedrooms, seven (originally six) bathrooms and twelve fireplaces, according to the report.
"The search for a home of this scale, provenance and grandeur in a prime location takes time as they are so rare and most of these properties never make it to the market publicly. The buyers could not be happier and it has been my sincere privilege to help them in the process to make their dream a reality. Further, the fact that there have been three sales in Georgetown over $7 million this year, where there were only two all of last year, says a lot about the confidence in our market," Kimberly Casey , realtor at Washington Fine Properties told The Georgetown Dish.
The home, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, once belonged to Jacqueline Kennedy's mother, Janet Lee Auchincloss Morris. Mrs. Morris, the former Janet Lee Bouvier, purchased the property with her husband during John F. Kennedy's presidency.
