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From P St. Salon to a Candidate's Makeover
John Edwards is asking $2.7 million more than he paid for his Georgetown home in 2002.
(By James A. Parcell -- The Washington Post)
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Edwards said the couple will move to their white clapboard family home in Raleigh while they build a house on a 100-acre parcel of land in Chapel Hill. After the new house is done sometime next year, the Edwardses plan to sell their Raleigh house, which they custom built in the early 1980s. They will retain their family beach house on the North Carolina coast near Wilmington, she said.
John Edwards, who gave up his Senate seat to be the running mate of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) in the 2004 election, is heading up a new Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina, a nonpartisan entity that studies the divisions between the nation's rich and poor.
He is also writing a book on childhood homes, tentatively called "Blueprints: The Architecture of our Lives," said D.C. power lawyer and agent Robert Barnett. And many Democrats anticipate that Edwards may make a bid for the White House in 2008.
Elizabeth Edwards said her husband will be back and forth to Washington after the family moves this summer. She said they plan to move after the children finish the school year at St. Patrick's in the District and when she winds up radiation treatment at Sibley Memorial Hospital. Elizabeth Edwards was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after the election last year.
When John Edwards is in town, he will stay in a one-bedroom condominium in Alexandria that his wife inherited from her parents, she said. Elizabeth Edwards, daughter of a Navy pilot, attended high school for a time in Alexandria.
Edwards said she hopes another family will buy the Georgetown house, which her own family liked more than any other place where they lived in Washington. Before buying the house in Georgetown, the couple owned another, larger house in Massachusetts Avenue Heights. They also rented a house in Spring Valley for a short time.
"We loved the neighborhood, we loved walking to places," Edwards said. "We loved having Volta Park so close by. The other night Cate was asking us if we really needed to sell it. There's really no point in us keeping it, though."
It's a "great family house," she said. "The Wisners raised their four children here. They were happy when we bought it, because we were a family, too. And we feel the same way. We'd like to think of a family living here after us."
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