THE DISTRICT
With a price tag of $4.5 million, the
four-story brick and limestone Beaux-Arts
mansion at 2346 S St﹒﹐ NW in Kalorama is
now under contract. The prospective buyer
is former J. C. Penney’s executive Catherine
West, who made Fortune’s 2006 list of the
50 Most Powerful Women before being fi red
barely six months into the job. Prior to her
short stint with Penney’s, West had been with
Capital One, First USA Bank, Chevy Chase
Bank FSB, and Peoples Express Airline. She is
the great-granddaughter and granddaughter |
of a president and executive vice president of
the Chicago retail behemoth Marshall Field &
Co. The Embassy Row residence has oversized
living and dining rooms, parlor, bar area, stateof-
the-art kitchen, breakfast room, mahoganypaneled
library, six bedrooms, six bathrooms,
fi ve fi replaces, enclosed patio and two decks –
one with a view of the Washington Monument.
The seller is Mark Cohen. The property was
listed by Michael Rankin with Tutt, Taylor &
Rankin Sotheby’s International Realty.
The 10,600 square-foot colonial at 4815
Dexter St﹒﹐ NW has sold for $3,800,000. |
Built in 2003, the seven-bedroom house with
six and a half baths now belongs to Robert
Wilder, who was represented by Elizabeth
Lavette Shorb of Washington Fine Properties.
William F.X. Moody and Robert Hryniewicki,
also with Washington Fine Properties, listed
the home for seller Cynthia Wilcox.
Georgie Benardete moved to London.
By press time, international real estate expert
Daniel Cummings and his wife Linda are
expected to buy Benardete’s house at 1609
31st St﹒﹐ NW. The elegant 4,200-square-foot,
three-level, brick Colonial-style manse sits |
