Jackie Kennedy's Virginia Childhood Home Listed For $49.5M

MCLEAN, VA — McLean's lavish estates along the Potomac River are often the most expensive on the Northern Virginia market, and quite a few celebrities have made McLean home over the years. Arguably the most storied property is Merrywood, where Jackie Kennedy Onassis grew up.

The home has changed hands a number of times since 1919 between top political and business leaders. Now current owner, AOL co-founder and former CEO Steve Case, is selling, and the asking price is $49.5 million, The Wall Street Journal reported. The asking price is the most expensive in the area, according to The Journal. (Sign up for real time alerts and a newsletter. iPhone users can download the Patch app in the App Store. Plus, like McLean Patch on Facebook.)

Because it has served as home to influential people, the property has been a well-known location to host presidents, business leaders, artists and more. In addition to Jackie O., others that have lived at Merrywood include Gore Vidal, and Nancy and Wyatt Dickerson.

The extravagant 23,000-square-foot estate has nine bedrooms, 13 bathrooms and seemingly countless amenities. Just a few features are indoor and outdoor pools, a tennis court and an elevator. The nearly one-century-old home has been carefully maintained but features some of the most modern luxuries and technologies, like an intercom, security and entertainment system.

Outside, the formal gardens include outdoor rooms for large-scale entertaining and enjoying the Potomac River views. The property is complete with an outdoor pavilion boasting a kitchen, exercise studio, changing rooms and the indoor pool.

A spokeswoman at Case's venture capital firm told the Washington Business Journal Steve and Jean Case are traveling more and don't need a home that size with all of the kids gone off to college.

Merrywood is being sold by TTR Sotheby's International Realty and Jones Lang LaSalle. If sold at $49.5 million, the home would set a record of most expensive property ever sold in the area. According to Curbed, Case's $24.5 million purchase of the home is the record to date.

See the full listing here.

Image via TTR Sotheby's International Realty