Obama’s former DC digs listed for $1.3M

The Washington, D.C., row house that Barack Obama lived in as a newly-elected senator has been listed for $1.3 million.

The 2,200-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom home at 226 6th Street NE features two units: one with two bedrooms, the other with only one, according to the listing on Redfin. 

Linda Pettie of Coldwell Banker Realty has the listing.

Obama rented a one-bedroom apartment facing Stanton Park when he first came to Washington in 2005, Axios reported.

In an interview with “60 Minutes,” the former president quipped that he was ““the only senator who has a worse apartment than your 25-year-old staff people,” describing his living conditions as a “vintage, college-dorm, pizza, empty-bottle feel to it,” Axios said.

It’s not unusual for homes formerly owned by historic figures to go on sale in the nation’s capital.

The Georgetown property formed through the combination of three houses — one of which was home to former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — will be listed for $26.5 million, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Jonathan Taylor, of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty, has the listing for a trust of the late David W. Hudgens, who combined the three homes into a 16,300-square-foot, 13-bedroom mansion before his death in November 2022, the outlet said.

The home formerly owned by Onassis became a tourist attraction, leading the family to move out about nine months after Onassis bought it in December 1963, the Journal reported. 

— Ted Glanzer