With its soaring ceilings, southern exposure, and original details, this Kalorama residence invites you to explore its well-appointed interiors and private outdoor spaces. Spanning four floors, this stately, five bedroom home includes five fireplaces, a home office, two outdoor spaces, and a heated garage. The main level is an entertainer’s dream, with fireplaces in both the living and dining rooms, a second sitting area, an eat-in kitchen with a butler’s pantry/bar, a powder room, all opening to a large patio. The second level can be configured as a main suite and boasts two fireplaces, a large dressing room, a separate sitting room, one and a half baths, wet bar, and large, private deck. The top floor has three bedrooms, one with a fireplace and en-suite bath, one additional shared bath and the home office. The lower level one bedroom suite includes a private entrance, kitchenette, and its own laundry.

Kalorama is home to many of DC most famous residentsy:

Notable residents and former residents

Kalorama has been home to six presidents:

Woodrow Wilson purchased a house at 2340 S Street NW in 1921, and lived there until his death three years later. After the 1961 death of Wilson's widow, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the Woodrow Wilson House was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and became a museum dedicated to Wilson.

William Howard Taft lived in the large Colonial Revival house at 2215 Wyoming Avenue from 1921 until his death in 1930. Alvan T. Fuller built the house in 1908 on a design by local architect Appleton P. Clark, Jr., and it is now the Syrian Embassy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt lived at 2131 R Street NW from 1917 to 1920, while he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The house, originally built in 1899 with a 1901 addition, is now the residence of the ambassador of Mali.

Warren Harding lived at 2314 Wyoming Avenue NW from 1917 to 1921, then as a U.S. senator from Ohio. The house was built in 1915 in the Federal Architecture style on a design by architect George N. Ray, and is now the residence of the ambassador of Monaco.

Herbert Hoover, when appointed Secretary of Commerce in 1921, purchased a house built by Thomas Gales in 1902 in the Colonial Revival style on a design by Appleton P. Clark, Jr. He lived there with his family until his inauguration in 1929 and after leaving the White House from 1933 to 1944. It has been the Embassy of Burma, then Myanmar since 1954.

Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and their two daughters lived in Kalorama after Obama's presidency ended on January 20, 2017.[10][11]

The neighborhood was home to five Supreme Court Justices:
Charles Evans Hughes
Louis Brandeis
Harlan F. Stone
Joseph McKenna
Sandra Day O'Connor
Other notable residents and former residents:

Joel Barlow: he named his house Kalorama, which served as the basis for the name of the neighborhood
Jeff Bezos purchased a house in Kalorama in 2016 for $23 million, formerly the Textile Museum, and another house nearby for $5 million.
William Richards Castle Jr., educator and diplomat
Louis DeJoy, United States Postmaster General
Frederic Adrian Delano, railroad president and member of Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Elizabeth Eisenstein, historian
Ted Kennedy, U.S. senator
Jared Kushner
Jack Lew, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Adolph C. Miller, member of Federal Reserve Board of Governors
George W. Renchard, ambassador
Donald Rumsfeld, former United States Secretary of Defense
Robert O. Scholz, designer
Justin B. Smith, CEO of Bloomberg Media
Rex Tillerson, former United States Secretary of State, acquired a Kalorama house for $5.6 million in 2017
Ivanka Trump
Chris Wallace, Fox News anchor

Kalorama was primarily rural until the end of the 19th century. It is northwest of the original limits of Washington City in Pierre Charles L'Enfant's original plan.

In 1795, Gustavus Scott, a commissioner for the District of Columbia, purchased land that had been part of Anthony Holmead's "Widows Mite" holdings. He constructed a large, classically styled house at 23rd and S Streets, which he named Rock Hill. In 1803, Scott's wife, Margaret Scott, sold the property to William Augustine Washington.

In 1807, Joel Barlow, a poet, diplomat, and political philosopher bought the property and renamed it "Kalorama", Greek for "fine view. Barlow lived in the home until shortly before his death in 1812. He commissioned United States Capitol architect Benjamin Latrobe to enlarge the house and elevate its design. The residence was destroyed by a fire during the American Civil War while it was used as a Union hospital. It was rebuilt and returned to a single-family home until 1887, when it was leveled by the District of Columbia government for the extension of S Street NW.

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