Be mindful when penthouses have been squalid buildings? The truth is, you don’t. It was larger than 100 years up to now that rooftop lean-tos and sheds have been constructed to cope with servants atop New York Metropolis’s tall buildings. Since then, the entice of dwelling in sky-high residences has soared, along with prices and standing reserved for the only some.
One such occasion is a two-story penthouse at current available on the market in thought of one among Maryland’s wealthiest cities. Unit 20B at 5610 Wisconsin Avenue in Chevy Chase spans the 20th and twenty first flooring of Somerset House, a tony high-rise lifestyle superior in metro Washington, D.C.
Sweeping views from two outside terraces (one on each diploma) lengthen to Virginia along with the Nationwide Shrine and the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
The $10.5 million price tag makes it one of many important expensive properties at current available on the market inside the area, based mostly on a present story inside the Washington Enterprise Journal. Itemizing agent Zelda Heller says the price ought to return as no shock for the “caliber, dimension and prime quality” of the 9,129-square-foot condominium. “What’s unusual is that this has come within the market,” Heller says.
The residence has 4 bedrooms and 9 loos (six full loos). Furnishings and bespoke finishes, similar to a stained glass skylight, wood-paneled library and niches embellished with hand-painted murals, advocate a European-style decor. An 18-foot wall of residence home windows reveals the scene-stealing views.
The primary mattress room suite comes with a sitting room with {an electrical} fireplace, two dressing rooms, two loos (one with a soak tub and bathe and one different with a step-in bathe) and a steam/sauna room. It’s on the equivalent diploma as the first dwelling areas, chef’s kitchen and banquet-sized consuming room.
The upper diploma has two bedrooms plus a separate suite with its private entrance, which may be finest for an in-home office or live-in aide. Who’s prone to be potential patrons? In all probability someone with a family, large or small. “With two of us, you presumably can keep comfortably and by no means voluminously,” Heller says. “If it’s a much bigger family, it has 4 bedrooms. It’s so versatile.”
The penthouse checks the entire bins for distinctive dwelling, similar to a giant dwelling space in a gated superior with resort-style amenities.
Somerset House was inbuilt 1999 and has larger than 400 fashions in three high-rise buildings. Services embody a concierge, indoor heated pool and spa, well being center, tennis courts, doorman and valet parking. It’s close to Washington, D.C., about 4 miles from Georgetown, 6 miles from the White House and the Smithsonian museums, and 1 mile from the Metro Purple Line in Bethesda, Maryland.
Zelda Heller and Jamie Coley of Lengthy & Foster Actual Property are the itemizing brokers.