Garfield St., Estate of the Day

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Dec 5th 2010 at 1:01PM

Today's home is perfect for a Washington D.C. mover and shaker. The 1930s Tudor mansion is located in the Wesley Heights neighborhood and has been gracefully renovated. The nine-bedroom home is on just over a half an acre of land which includes a guest house, swimming pool and deck. The home has a total of 12,500 interior square feet. The main home has a large kitchen, family room, a formal dining room, a large living room and a library that feels like a secret hideaway. The master suite uses the entire north portion of the second floor and has his and hers baths, dressing rooms, expansive closets and a secondary staircase. The lower level has a theater room, home gym, and full staff quarters. The two-bedroom guest house is connected by both an exterior breezeway and a lower level hallway and has a full kitchen and a spa room with a hot tub. The home also has two attached garages with room for three cars as well as exterior parking for at least nine more cars. It is listed at $8.995 million.

Gallery: Garfield Street

Tags: estate of the day, washington dc, washington dc real estate

Filed under: Estates

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JLS Dec 6th 2010 2:26AM

Just beautiful. Unique decor, bright and airy and lots of class. Loved it, particularly the brick driveway. I can tell I have done too much reno because the first thing I noticed is it needs a roof!

T. Leeflang Dec 6th 2010 4:32AM

A nice mix of traditional and modern. Love the curved window bays.

rex Dec 6th 2010 11:08AM

Know both the property and its owners -- certainly very nice but
overpriced by at least four million.

None of these high-priced homes in DC are moving nowadays (there have
only been two $8 mil sales in the city this year and both were vastly
more substantial properties than this one). Deidre, with great
fanfare, announced that Halcyon House in Georgetown went under
contract last month at $15 mil. Despite my emailing her, she's
decided NOT to follow up and note that it's since fallen out of
contract and is back on the market, where it will continue to languish.

Maybe she should put that absurd $15 million new listing on R Street in
Dupont Circle as her next estate of the day......or she could instead
wait a year to profile it since it isn't going under contract anytime soon.
Too many greedy owners here still think it's 2005.

JLS Dec 6th 2010 3:18PM

Deidre has more pressing things to do than email any of us. And, who cares if it fell out of contract? I don't. When you list an email address on a well traveled website such as this, the amount of email you receive is epic. There would be no way to acknowledge much given that situation.

This must be trash Deidre week. It's getting ridiculously out of control. Try appreciating what she delivers here daily. Try not posting something brutal just because you don't receive a personal reply.

rex Dec 7th 2010 2:25AM

JLS, If you considered my accurate, informed remarks "brutal", you must have never worked a day in your life. You're also pretty dim if you're unable to recognize that when a writer make a big deal about a fifteen million dollar property going under contract (and, in this economic climate, it certainly is a big deal), then ignores the fact that it's fallen out of contract and is NOT going to sell, you're not being a responsible journalist. Facts are facts and that's not being consistent .

This has nothing whatsoever to do with her "corresponding" with me -- I can safely go to my grave never receiving an email from her.....Or, for that matter, ever hearing your clueless, whiny opinion about anything again.

JLS Dec 6th 2010 8:52PM

What does my work history have to do with anything here? I am a retired lawyer and have probably worked longer days than you ever spent on any job. You publicly stated she never acknowledged your email. Why did you need to do that to her? I find it nasty and unnecessary.

Please refrain from personal attacks on Deidre or me. You do not know either of us and I believe you expect too much here.

wowser1 Dec 6th 2010 8:52PM

Nice find Deidre. Nicest kitchen I have seen on EOTD recently. Most of the time they just don't look usable to me. And I want to second it that you are doing great work here, and I really enjoy EOTD, every day. Kudos to you!

Rex, being a high maintenance complainer is no way to influence anyone. Your facts may be as you say, accurate, but again, who cares? Politely pointing out and responding to someone's facts is not whining. And if anyone here is whining it is definitely you!

JLS Dec 6th 2010 9:01PM

You are not qualified to judge who is and further, who isn't a responsible journalist. Additionally, you wouldn't have mentioned her non reply unless it was a big deal to you. You would have just let it go instead.

As for whining, who even mentions the fact that an author on a very widely known website doesn't email them right back and honor their wishes with regard to website content? That personifies whining. Your ego is showing drastically.

You are severely overplaying your hand here, Rex, and instead attacking me in very personal ways for requesting you show Deidre some respect. I take issue with your no hands barred posting attacks.