Jeff Bezos is the anonymous buyer of the biggest house in Washington

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From The Washington Post:

Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood just keeps getting swankier: Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeffrey P. Bezos has bought the former Textile Museum, a 27,000 square-foot property, intending to convert it into a single-family home, according to a person with knowledge of the sale.

Bezos’s neighbors will include President Obama and his family, who are renting a property nearby for their post-White House home, as well as future first daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, incoming presidential adviser Jared Kushner.

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The home — the largest in Washington — sold Oct. 21 for $23 million in cash (a million over its list price) to a buyer described in public documents as the Cherry Revocable Trust. But word about the identity of the new billionaire next door has been circulating around the enclave that ambassadors and Cabinet secretaries have long called home.

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There are no indications he will move here permanently.

The home is expected to be an East Coast pied-à-terre for the family — allowing him to avoid hotel bills — but the ample square footage means there’s plenty of room for entertaining.

Link to the rest at The Washington Post and thanks to Becca and others for the tip.

5 thoughts on “Jeff Bezos is the anonymous buyer of the biggest house in Washington”

  1. Washinton DC. You forgot a crucial piece of reporting. There is, after all, more country outside the Capitol and the East Coast. In fact, there is a WHOLE state called Washington.

  2. I remember touring the Textile Museum in the 80’s with a friend who loved showing off Washington DC. The gardens were accessible by the public and really beautiful. Parking as I remember was really a problem, so I guess more people can enjoy the museum in the new location, but I think the public lost something by losing access to the gardens.

  3. FWIW, people who live here in the Washington, D.C., area very rarely say “Washington.” We say D.C. or the District. If you live in the suburbs, you might say, “I’m going into town tonight.” But not “Washington.”

  4. Context is everything. It’s the hometown newspaper reporting local news. They’d look like idiots if they started adding DC to sentences a million times a day.
    Not to mention, there is a specific reference in the article that Bezos actually lives in “the other Washington” (state.)

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