across from Tudor Place in Georgetown. Built
in 1980 and recently remodeled, it has updated
bathrooms and new wood floors. Fluted
columns delineate the public rooms. There
are fi ve bedrooms and fi ve baths, library, three
fi replaces, and kitchen with two dishwashers,
two ovens, two sinks and Sub-Zero refrigerator.
French doors lead from the kitchen to the
patio and swimming pool. The estate was listed
by Kimberly Casey and Daryl Judy (who were
named the number one team at Tutt, Taylor
& Rankin Sotheby’s International Realty for
2007). The dynamic duo had the property
under contract in just one day with an asking
price of $3.4 million. Tutt, Taylor & Rankin’s
Michael Rankin assisted the Cummings.
Washington Fine Properties realtor Jim Bell
and mortgage banker Mark Scott have sold their
three-level penthouse, #2C (listed at $2,395,000),
in the Ritz-Carlton Residences at 1155 23rd St﹒﹐
NW. to Mark Weinstein, executive director of the
Washington National Opera. The couple now
intends to purchase 2118 S St﹒﹐ NW from Pauli
and Grant McClanahan. The $1.5 million house
has four bedrooms, three and a half baths, a media
room, a library, and a living room that opens onto
a balcony with stairs leading to the garden below.
MARYLAND
Amy Weber Dice and Kenneth E. Dice,
III sold their fi ve-bedroom home at 6922
Woodside Pl﹒ in Chevy Chase to Primacy
Closing Corp. for $2.24 million. The sale |
comes in the aftermath of Ken’s decision to
leave his position as executive vice president
of marketing with Discovery Communication
in favor of becoming Nike’s vice president
of USA brand management. The couple are
graduates of the University of Notre Dame,
and she is a former associate publisher for
People magazine. They now reside in Oregon.
VIRGINIA
On March 3, Audi’s Marc Trahan and his
wife Jane acquired an 11-acre horse farm
in Purceville. The property, located at 18137
Oakridge Hamlet Pl﹒﹐ includes a fivebedroom
with four and a half baths, offi ce,
great room and walkout basement with theater
and exercise area. The seller was Remax realtor
Diana Austin, who was asking a mere $950,000.
Kimberly Casey and Daryl Judy with Tutt,
Taylor & Rankin Sotheby’s International
Realty helped facilitate the sale.
Tutt, Taylor & Rankin Sotheby’s
International Realty’s Kimberly Casey and
Daryl Judy were the listing agents for 303
Mansion Drive in Alexandria. By press
time, this property should belong to Moira
and Timothy L. Buzby, VP/controller of the
Federal Agriculture Mortgage Corporation.
Mark Souder of Coldwell Banker is their
selling agent. The property is the estate of
Mary Workun Covell, who died last October
at age 89. She was a chairwoman of the
National Cherry Blossom Festival, a fundraiser |
for the American Red Cross and the widow
of Howard V. Covell, a deputy chief of the
D.C. police. During World War II she did
administrative work at the Pentagon and
it was there that she met Brigadier General
Richard B. Moran and his wife Thelma T.
“Tillie” Thickins, from whom she eventually
purchased this house. Tillie and her husband
regularly entertained high-ranking military
offi cers and their wives, and Mrs. Dwight
Eisenhower was a frequent visitor. When the
Thickins’ marriage ended in 1948, Mrs. Covell
acquired the house with the understanding that
Mrs. Thickens would always have a place in it.
On December 8, 1970, Mamie Eisenhower,
recounting the old days, wrote the following to
her: “All we women of the war era seem to be
greatly scattered, and, of course, some of [us]
have passed on, but I will always be grateful
to you for your hospitality … We enjoyed
your lovely house and garden.” Thickens died
on February 3, 1984. Built in 1936, the fourbedroom
house retains its original hard wood
fl oors and architectural fl ourishes. It is priced
to sell at $1.3 million.
WL regrets omitting Julia Diaz-Asper of Tutt,
Taylor & Rankin Sotheby’s International Realty as
the primary selling agent for 3017 O St. NW in
March’s Real Estate News.
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