A childhood home where music legend and Washington, D.C., icon Duke Ellington lived has been taken off the market.
Ellington lived in a rowhouse on Elm Street NW in Le Droit Park about 1906, according to the Washington Post. That's around the time that Ellington, who was born in 1899, started taking his first piano lessons.
The home was listed in spring 2019 for $1.2 million, but a family that's lived there for generations ultimately decided not to move, according to the listing agent with Compass Real Estate. Take a look inside.
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A childhood home where music legend and Washington, D.C., icon Duke Ellington's lived is on the market for $1.2 million. (Inset photo: Scurlock Studio, rights owned by the Smithsonian Institution)
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Duke Ellington lived in this rowhouse at 420 Elm Street NW in Le Droit Park about 1906, according to the Washington Post. That's around the time that Ellington, who was born in 1899, started taking his first piano lessons.
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Alana Faustina, the realtor in charge of this $1.2 million listing, says the home has been owned by the same family for generations.
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The current furnishings are provided by the current owner, who inherited the home from her parents.
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The home was one of a series of rowhomes built on Elm Street in 1892 by builder J.W. Serrin, city records show.
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The home cost about $22,000 to build.
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Duke Ellington and his family rented a series of homes in the Washington area during his childhood.
