![]() ![]() "This one struck me as a really special one," said Michael Brennan Jr., an agent with TTR Sotheby's. "I've never met anyone like her," Jack reportedly told a friend after the party, according to Edward Klein's book "All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie." They were married two years later in Rhode Island.īuilt in 1895, the Q Street house, which was expanded to include the property next door, sports three bedrooms, a garage and all that history – a particular selling point in storied Georgetown, according to the home's listing agent. ![]() The small gathering of about eight was held for the express purpose of introducing the eventual president, a notorious bachelor at the time, to his future bride.Īfter a night of cocktails, chicken casserole and a game of charades, America's first royal couple clicked. ![]() The scene: It was the spring of 1951 and journalist Charles Bartlett, a pal of Kennedy, and his wife, Mary, had decided – with the help of behind-the-scenes machinations by Kennedy family patriarch Joseph Kennedy – to throw a dinner party at the modest red-brick rowhouse on Q Street NW that they were renting. The Georgetown home that set the scene of a staged meet-cute starring John Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier will hit the market for $1.725 million this week. WASHINGTON – It's where it all started, and it's for sale. ![]()
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