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Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has listed his historic Washington, DC, mansion for $8.75 million, bringing one of Kalorama’s largest private homes to market at a time when inventory in the legacy neighborhood remains scarce.
The 1905 residence is now the most expensive and expansive home currently for sale in the diplomatic enclave, known for housing political power brokers and foreign embassies within close reach of the White House, according to a press release from its listing brokerage.
Originally built for the president of Lincoln National Bank, the Romanesque Revival property spans nearly 9,000 square feet and preserves early 20th-century details such as coffered ceilings, original paneling and restored pocket doors, while incorporating modern upgrades including an elevator connecting all four floors.
Configured with six bedrooms and eight bathrooms, the home includes formal entertaining spaces with fireplaces; a chef’s kitchen equipped with Sub-Zero, Viking and Bosch appliances; and a primary suite with dual dressing rooms and a Waterworks marble bath.
The lower level features a media room, a gym, a wine cellar and an in-law suite with a separate entrance and interior access to a two-car garage, while landscaped grounds provide a private garden with a pergola, a fountain, a fire pit and a built-in grill.
The upper floors include additional bedrooms, a sitting room and bonus space illuminated by a central skylight.
The roughly 0.15-acre lot offers a rare degree of privacy for an urban setting in a neighborhood where outdoor space is often limited.
The listing is notable not only for its size and price point, but also because homes of this scale rarely trade in Kalorama, where much of the housing stock dates back more than a century and turnover tends to be limited.
It’s repped by Marin Hagen and Sylvia Bergstrom, Coldwell Banker Realty
Hughes joined Facebook in its infancy after being recruited by Mark Zuckerberg while the two were students at Harvard, where the social networking site was first developed. He traveled to Palo Alto with Zuckerberg in 2004 as work on the platform intensified and later returned following his 2006 graduation to help guide its early expansion.
Hughes played a role in testing features and shaping how the service grew beyond elite college campuses by maintaining school-based networks as it scaled to a broader audience. He left the company in 2007 and went on to realize an estimated $500 million when Facebook held its initial public offering in 2012.
He later oversaw digital strategy for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, and has made several high-profile real estate investments with husband Sean Eldridge in recent years.
The couple previously restored the historic Whippoorwill Farm estate in Garrison, New York, before bringing the roughly 80-acre property to market for about $10 million, and have also bought and sold luxury properties in Manhattan.
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