Merrywood - Steve Case Estate

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Steve Case, the former chairman and CEO of AOL has purchased Merrywood, the childhood home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The seven acre waterfront estate in McLean belonged to Jackie's mother and stepfather, Janet Bouvier Auchincloss and Hugh D. Auchincloss. Built in the 1920's, the nine-bedroom estate has since been extensively renovated and refurbished by Washington designer Victor Shargai. It features a 5,000 square-foot pool house and a tennis court. Washington Life last reported on the home in December of 1999 when Washington Fine Properties listed the estate for real-estate developer Alan Kay and his wife Dianne, who sold it for slightly more than $15,000,000 to William Conway, a founder and managing director of the Carlyle Group. Case reportedly paid Conway $24.5 million.

The home has been described as a mock-Georgian brick house set among 1/2 dozen acres of woods on the high Potomac palisades. From terraced lawns, there was a steep rocky drop to the river.

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