In gentle of the information that President Biden is dropping out of the 2024 election, and has endorsed his vice chairman, Kamala Harris, we’re resharing this story about Harris’s actual property from 2021.
President Joe Biden could be a self-professed actual property fanatic however Vice President Kamala Harris has a mini empire of her personal.
She spent practically her total life in California, save for shifting to Quebec for center and excessive faculties and attending school at Howard College in D.C. She was born in Oakland, grew up in Berkeley, obtained her regulation diploma on the College of California, Hastings School of Regulation, and was the district lawyer of San Francisco after which the lawyer basic of California for 2 phrases earlier than being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2017. So it is no shock that the Vice President has laid declare to a few notable items of actual property in her residence state. Here’s what we learn about her homes—two in California, one in D.C.—that are price about $8 million. Plus, a take a look at her new vice presidential digs on the Naval Observatory.
Vice President’s Residence, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington D.C.
Traditionally, VPs lived in their very own properties, however because it turned more and more troublesome and costly to safe non-public homes, there got here a necessity to ascertain an official residence for the vice chairman. In 1974, the home at Quantity One Observatory Circle was approved by Congress to be refurbished and remodeled into the official residence—three years later, Walter Mondale turned the primary veep to maneuver in.
The home is positioned on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory, certainly one of America’s oldest scientific companies, and was initially constructed within the late nineteenth century for the USNO’s superintendent (in 1923, the chief of naval operations took the house for himself as a result of he appreciated it a lot). Designed within the Queen Anne type (characterised by asymmetrical flooring plans, spherical turret rooms, and intensive wraparound verandas), the three-story house is sprawled out over 9,150 sq. toes on 12 acres of land. There may be loads of area for entertaining dignitaries—throughout his 8 years as VP, George H.W. Bush hosted 900 events on the residence—however not like the White Home, Quantity One Observatory Circle is not open for public excursions.
All former vice presidents have put their very own private contact to the property and Harris will possible do the identical. Bush put in a horseshoe pit and jogging observe on the grounds, Dan Quayle added a swimming pool, and the Pences put in a beehive. However maybe probably the most important addition got here from Dick Cheney, who’s broadly believed to have constructed an underground bunker after 9/11.
Los Angeles, California
Kamala Harris and husband Douglas Emhoff’s residence (the orange-roofed home proven within the heart) within the upscale Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.
In 2012 Harris’s lawyer husband Emhoff purchased this 3,500-square-foot home within the posh Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, the place celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and LeBron James personal multimillion-dollar mansions. Two years later he married Harris and shortly after transferred the house to a joint belief bearing each their initials. The property has 4 bedrooms and a pool, and is positioned ten minutes from the Getty Heart. It needed to be evacuated final fall because of the Getty Hearth, which burned 745 acres within the space, however Harris’s residence did not endure any damages. Based on Zillow, the home is now price $5 million.
Washington D.C.
The Westlight Condominium in Washington D.C.
In 2017, the 12 months she was elected to the Senate, Harris paid $1.775 million for a two-bedroom, 1,700-square-foot house within the nation’s capital. The 71-unit LEED-certified Westlight advanced has a main location in Washington’s West Finish, with Georgetown on one aspect, Dupont Circle on the opposite, and the White Home only a mile away. It is also amenity-rich, with a rooftop pool, health heart, housekeeping, and a 24-hour concierge.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco
In 2004, when she turned San Francisco’s first Black lawyer basic, Harris purchased a apartment on the town for $489,000. Its worth has practically doubled since then, in accordance with a Zillow estimate. The 1,000-square-foot loft is positioned within the metropolis’s SoMa (South of Market) neighborhood, residence to SF MoMA and the headquarters of a number of tech corporations, together with Uber, Airbnb, and Salesforce.
Leena Kim is an editor at City & Nation, the place she covers journey, jewellery, schooling, weddings, and tradition.
