Real Estate Newsby Mary K. MewborLuxurious properties that offer more than just a room with a view The District By press time, 3407 R Street NW in Georgetown is expected to belong to Nabeel Audeh, a local businessman and owner of Wisemiller’s Deli, a favorite of Georgetown University students since 1962. Audeh bought the profitable take-out restaurant when he was a graduate student in 1982. Now he is buying Bill Ludmer’s R Street rowhouse. Ludmer is a Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) professional who in January joined BNP Paribas when the Paris-based company announced plans to open an office in Tysons Corner, Virginia. Previously, Ludmer had worked for Freddie Mac where he sold agency mortgage-backed bonds. Ludmer is asking $1.195 million for his renovated rowhouse with a new rear addition and an upgraded kitchen complete with stainless steel fixtures and granite countertops. Serenely situated off the street, the charming home has sunrooms, a front porch, rear garden and a one-car garage. There is also a lower level one-bedroom rental unit with a private entrance. The listing agent is Mary Lynn White with W. C. & A. N. Miller.
Former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) director Michael Kosakowski’s house at 1854 Wyoming Street N W has sold for the list price of $1,699, 000. The expansive ninebedroom home has eight fireplaces and features such period details as chestnut paneling, inlaid wood floors and original decorative tiles. The home also has a gourmet kitchen, fourth-floor rear balcony, and two-car garage with a large roof deck affording views of the Washington Monument, the Capitol and the National Arboretum. The house went on the market at the end of March. The listing agent was Jim Bell, who had been with Coldwell Banker but now works with Washington Fine Properties. The buyers were represented by Eileen McGraff, also with Washington Fine Properties. World renowned architect Arthur Cotton Moore and his wife and business manager Patricia, have purchased a two bedroom penthouse at the Watergate South and put their unique 4,000 squarefoot stainless steel home on the Eastern Shore up for sale with an asking price of $3,850,000. “The guru of industrial baroque” as Moore has been pegged, built the steel hurricane house on the Tred Avon River at the tip of Benoni Point six years ago after selling the magnificent brick and concrete Georgetown home he had designed to hover above M Street, N.W. The Moores old District residence at 1600 Avon Place, N.W. overlooking the Potomac above Key Bridge has a lap pool built into the terrace and features magnificent views of the sunset, the Kennedy Center, Rosslyn and the Washington Monument. Arthur Cotton Moore is as famous as the buildings he has helped preserve, including Washington’s Cairo Apartments, the Library of Congress, the U.S. Treasury, and the Old Post Office tower. The Moores reportedly paid former AOL executive David Cole over $1 million for their large duplex residence at the Watergate. The Moores are also believed to own a unit in Watergate’s West building which they use for storage.
Long and Foster’s Jim Firkser just helped sell 4605 Foxhall Crescent N W for Catherine McDermott, who was president and CEO of the National Committee for Quality Health Care (NCQHC) for eight years before retiring in June of this year. The buyers are former Rep. Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. a Democrat from Houston, Texas, and his wife, Tamra, who served as executive director of the Congressional Families Action for Cancer Awareness (CRFA), a program of the Cancer Research Foundation of America. The Bentsens scooped up their new fashionably remodeled home the very day it went on the market. The couple had been renting the house next door for the last five years and willingly paid the asking price of $1,549,000. They were assisted in their purchase by Coldwell Banker realtor Nancy Taylor Bubes.
Jim Firkser was also the listing agent for 4724 Foxhall Crescent N W. The seller was Hewitt Relocation, a service hired by Bank of America to assist in relocating the bank’s executives. Thehome had been the residence of Jennifer Taylor Boussuge, Bank of America’s senior vice president in International Banking, and her husband, Michel Boussuge, whom she met in Paris, France, after graduating from Mary Washington College. The Boussuges were asking $1,650,000 for their home which although billed as a contemporary, contains art deco features, a Roman tub and a turret. The buyer, Tien Trinh, paid $1.587 million. Washington Fine Properties agent W. Ted Gossett has 4995 Glenbrook Road N W under contract for $2,585,000. The Spring Valley property has a new kitchen, an outstanding master bedroom suite and a beautifully landscaped yard. The sellers are investment banker John York and his wife Jerri. The prospective buyer is an executive with Marriott.
In Cleveland Park, 3101 Highland Place N W has been sold for $2,500,000. The realtors involved in the transfer of this quintessential turn-of-the century residence are Begg Long & Foster realtors Susan Davis, Jeanne Livingston and Terry Robinson. The house has a wonderful front porch, four-plus bedrooms and is located close to the Cleveland Park Community Center. The seller is Robert Wood. The buyers have asked not to be identified. Maryland In Bethesda, Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Moore, II have parted with their home at 8606 Country Club Drive. Moore graduated from UVA law school in 1964 and joined the firm Miller & Chevalier in 1967. In recent years, he has focused principally on tax litigation, serving as lead counsel in such cases as Exxon Mobil Corp. v. United States. Moore has also held several management positions at Miller & Chevalier including serving as a member of the Executive Committee and as chair of the firm’s Tax Department. The new owners of the Moores’ old Montgomery County home are Dr. Victoria A. Casey and Peter B. Teeley, who is the government affairs advisor for Amgen, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies. Prior to joining Amgen in 1993, Teeley served as U.S. ambassador to Canada, as a fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, as press secretary and assistant to Vice President George Bush, and as representative on the Executive Board of the United Nations Children’s Fund. He is the founder and chairman of D.C.’s Children’s Charities Foundation which has donated millions to various non-profits committed to improving the lives of children in the Nation’s Capital. Teeley and Casey paid $3.5 million for their new sixbedroom home with eight full and two half baths. Their Colonial-style masterpiece combines historic architectural elements, fine materials and craftsmanship, and attention to detail. The extraordinary fieldstone house is situated on a two-acre private lot on a quiet cul-de-sac adjoining the Congressional Country Club golf course and is just minutes from the C&O Canal. Virginia In Fairfax Station, Paul H. and Sabra B. Mac- Murdy have sold 6588 Ellies Way to Dong K. and Michelle L. Kim for $1 million. Paul, who is a 1983 graduate of and recent contributor to the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at John Hopkins, and his wife had been asking $1,150,000 for their four-bedroom home custom built by Van Metre in the luxury community of Donovan’s Ridge. The house is a wellconstructed Marquis Colonial loaded with upscale extras including hardwood flooring, transom and Palladian windows and doors, granite counter tops and maple cabinets. It has three fireplaces, four and a half baths, a master suite with a sitting room, and is located on a professionally landscaped one-acre lot on a cul-de-sac that backs to trees. It is also convenient to Burke Lake Park and Golf Course and just minutes from Fairfax County Parkway, Route 66, and Fair Oaks Mall.
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