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The main-floor family room offers views into the breakfast room and main kitchen, and overlooks the rear garden and pool.

of the house, and you wouldn’t know it if you were spending time together upstairs. There are spacious entertaining areas, including two recreation rooms and a wet bar, as well as an elevator, a wine cellar and an exercise room.” The grand elegance of the home reveals itself at the front door, which opens to a two-story foyer with marble floors, a custom S-shaped staircase and dual chandeliers. Beyond are formal rooms, including a massive living room and a handsome library with built-in maple bookcases, as well as an immense din- ing room featuring the original fireplace. In the modern family kitchen, custom cabi- netry, commercial appliances, a butler’s pantry and stone countertops join a large center island with an attached dining table. The home features two addi- tional full kitchens, one of which has been created as

“the ideal catering space,” he says. “You can back a cater- ing truck down the driveway on that side of the house, unseen, and have a huge function. It’s so well designed for large-scale entertaining, yet the family spaces are equally impressive.” This feeling extends outdoors, where the half-acre lot features a huge resort pool and mature landscaping, including its own cherry blossom tree, a fountain and a cabana. “The outdoor area offers a beautiful entertaining space on a level lot with a large pool,” Coleman says. “The size of the lot, the beauty of the land, the great amount of open space — it’s all really unique. This property offers a lovely, oversized entertaining lot with an immaculate home in an incredible neighborhood with cachet. It’s

everything a Washington, D.C., buyer would ever want, and then some.”

2933-2943 Benton Place Northwest Washington, DC 20008 $8,000,000 Represented by: Stewart Coleman Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage C: 202.841.2936 stewart@edwardandstewart.com

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