Though it has been over 25 years since Jackie Kennedy died her legacy lives on thanks to her enduring mystery and impressive style. Here is a master post of the various homes of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis from childhood homes to first lady retreats and beyond:
Childhood homes
Though the Bouviers were considered a well-heeled family, Jackie’s earliest years were not quite as grand as one might expect. After suffering financial blow during the Great Depression, Jackie’s father relied on his own father to provide accommodation for the young family while Jack Bouvier regained financial freedom. Jack, Jackie and her mother Janet lived rent-free at the Bouvier’s summer house Wildmoor, known to the family as “the little house”.
The quaint shackle house was upgraded a couple of years later for a two-storey apartment on Park Avenue in an apartment-complex built by Jackie’s maternal grandfather. The luxurious apartment remained Jackie’s home for much of her childhood, (interspersed with summer holidays at the new Bouvier holiday home of Lasata) until her parents divorced in 1938.
Once Jackie’s mother remarried she and her sister Caroline moved into the Merrywood estate (above) owned by her new step-father. As well as these various childhood homes Jackie also spent many years boarding at various schools across the country including Holton-Arms School and Miss Porter’s before attending university.
Marital Homes
After graduating from university Jackie lived in an apartment in Georgetown, Washington D.C. while working as an ‘inquiring camera girl’ for the Washington Times-Herald. It was during this time that she met and later became engaged to John F Kennedy, with the two of them residing in a rented townhouse at 3321 Dent Place Northwest before purchasing their first property together at Hickory Hill, a house which stayed in the Kennedy family until 2009.
street view
John and Jackie regularly summered at the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port leading them to purchase their own holiday home nearby at 111 Irving Avenue.
The couple continued to live in various townhouses in Washington D.C. right up until JFK became President of the United States after which the young family moved into t
Wexford estate was the only residence the Kennedy couple designed themselves and only enjoyed a few weekends in together before the president was fatally shot. A year after completion, the house was put up for sale.
Post White House
After moving out of the White House Jackie and the children lived in a stunning Georgetown ‘mansion’ for a year before moving out of the capital and into a luxury apartment in New York. The Fifth Avenue apartment continued to be Jackie’s city residence until her death.
Another property purchase of Jackie’s was Red Gate Farm in Martha’s Vineyard, which was inherited by her daughter Caroline upon the former First Lady’s death and was put up for sale last year.
Jackie also briefly lived in numerous other accommodations over her lifetime, most of which were leased – read more about those here. Read more about Jackie’s childhood homes in this previous post, read about John and Jackie’s marital homes in this previous post, or see inside Red Gate Farm holiday home.
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