This 10,300-square-foot home was built in 1917 by architect Clarke Waggaman, who lived there—and called it his “dream house”—for the last two years of his life. Photograph via Google Earth
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Christine Rales
$11.9 million, Massachusetts Avenue Heights
Mitchell Rales’s ex-sister-in-law, Christine, lives in this ten-bedroom, seven-bath DC manse next to Rock Creek Park. In 2003, after 20 years of marriage, Christine and Steven Rales divorced; Forbes estimates Steven’s net worth to be $3.3 billion. Top Washington divorce lawyer Sanford Ain handled the split—and it looks like Christine got to keep the house. The 10,300-square-foot home was built in 1917 by architect Clarke Waggaman, who lived there—and called it his “dream house”—for the last two years of his life.
