I like Hickory Hill, majestically Federal style, in a peaceful area with lot of green grass and trees and yet not far from the action in D.C. The estate had been changed with each new owner, saw pics of the original 1870 house and it's completely unrecognizable to what it is today.
The Cape Cod Compound is my favorite of all of them. We lived on the Cape and it was interesting to see them on their way to church or out and about doing what Cape folk enjoy. Jackie had her hands full with John if he was near his cousins, totally out of her control. Those were the best days.
The Kennedy’s were new money being Irish Catholic they were not accepted by the Boston Brahmins . Joe Kennedy had to leave Boston for New York because of the prejudice.
Hickory Hill is my favourite mansion. I love Georgian Architecture. To have a home like that is a dream. I’ll settle for the home I do have. Way smaller than this iconic beauty. Less rooms to clean too! 😊
Living in a single-wide mobile home most of my childhood years, I just cannot relate.. I suppose one can always aspire and dream to succeed in life to perhaps live in such luxury, but isn't this just a testament of how it's really the luck of the draw what family you are born into?
My favorite Kennedy mansion is the main one at Hyannisport and the Winter one in Palm Beach,FL which is a lot more my style-Mediterranean/Spanish mission colonial style.
The Kennedy’s are new money, not old money. Old money families are the Rockefeller which own my no good Rotton birth state of New York, the DuPomts of Delaware, the Chase, Car iciest & Mellons of Pittsburgh are old money, the Hearsts of San Francisco are what is called old money.
Definitely it has to be the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport it by far the most historic. I'm from Massachusetts so I'm a little bias but when you grew up hearing Kennedy this and that you will know why?
@@cherylprice1196Actually, it was in banking, movies, NY real-estate and the markets. Whatever 'boot-legging' he did would have been a side hassle at most.
An extremely exciting piece. You don't see many families that were at the heart of a country's history who took care to preserve its history, heritage and culture. The Kennedys did it! And that more than anything else is their uniqueness.
I had to look up the current dollar value of the Palm Beach house in 1933, which was $110,000.00. Today, that 100k would be worth $2,600,000.00. What happened to our money? $2,6 seems right. Today, that house was just sold for $70 million.
If the walls of these mansions could, we can only guess what they would say. This was a marvelous tour of an era gone never to be seen again. It was greatly appreciated.
A man who refinished my wood floors in Potomac Maryland in the 90's, told me Ethel insisted on an odd high gloss finish and then stiffed him ... his only career stiff. They always claimed they were in the Cape when he would seek payment.
True , I have been there many times its my favourite stately home , its about two hours away from me in Derbyshire, and Jfk sister Kathleen is buried in the family cemetery having married into Cavendish family 😊🇬🇧
My favourite the beautiful Florida manison with lots of Kennedy's still around why sell these properties im still in my beloved family home since 1967🤠⭐🦅🗽
I'd always heard that JFK & Jackie bought Hickory Hill first but sold it to Ethel & Bobby after Jackie lost their daughter, Arabella. Are there any videos of Ted & Joan's house on Squaw Island, or the Shriver's house that was also not far from 'the big house'? We were just in Boston, then down on the Cape back in June, so of course we checked out the 'Kennedy stuff', along with a 'drive down by the compound'. It was a bucket list item so any part of it we were able to see, we were happy with :)
1040 fifth avenue always smelled like too much old lady hairspray to me. Of course, I was just a brat little kid, or later on a teenager, when I visited there.
Their dad was a a bootlegger. How the family got “old money” to begin with. Along with doing gangsters of time favors allowed them to stay in political favor.
I was pleasantly surprised to find out at minute 3:08 that Jacqueline Kennedy had a sexy body. At minute 9:48 do we see Barack Obama as a child on the left side of the picture :)
They McMansioned Hickory Hill...it looks horrendous! Cut down a ton of trees, put a walkway from the terrace down to the pool...added tons on to the side. Horrible
@@janetphillips2875 they had more problems than everybody else, and thats because they brought the problems on themselves. drunks, fornicators, adulterers, corrupt lefties
@@healthyamerican thanks for the heads up !!! I always want to hurl when they are called Americas royalty. And,also the word Camelot....they gave themselves the name ....😅 trash, really.
The Hyannis Port Compound is my preferred favourite with Jackie's New York residence coming second, The Hickory Hill home too clearly had immense style and elegance. I would happily move in to any or all three of them now!
Hickory Hill belonged to Jack and Jackie Kennedy. Jackie had renovated and done the nursery but after the stillbirth of Arabella they moved and sold it to RFK and Ethel for $1.
This is an old Story cast down through the family my family that my uncle Clifford rich husband passed away for 25 years now used to run moonshine for JFK's dad back in the day of prohibition..😊 old money old booze ..lol
I've toured Jackie's Hammersmith house & the White House just after JFK was killed. We were a stronger Nation then. There wasn't much we couldn't accomplish, some referred to this time as Camellot!
I’m a Bostonian (Cambridge actually) and every time I hear someone say “Beantown” it’s like someone runs their fingernails across a blackboard. Repeat after me ‘It’s Bahstin, not Beantown’ (freaking morons)
