Photograph by Ron Blunt.
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C. Boyden Gray
$7.2 million, Georgetown
Known as the Robert P. Dodge house, this pale-yellow Italianate home was built in 1853 by Dodge, the son of a wealthy shipping merchant. During World War I it housed a nightclub, and in 1920 it was bought by Warren Delano Robbins, a cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1987, lawyer C. Boyden Gray paid $4.1 million for it—a jaw-dropping sum at the time.
A former partner at the law firm WilmerHale, Gray was White House counsel under George H.W. Bush and later US ambassador to the European Union. Gray’s place isn’t far from the late Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham’s former home—the two used to be tennis partners.
