It's the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November, which means it's Election Day. Here's a photo gallery of homes for sale or recently on the market that were connected to a U.S. president. Vote for your favorite.
Hobby historians believe George Washington spent time at an Alexandria, Virginia tavern in the late 1700s on his way back to Mt. Vernon from Washington D.C. The historic, Colonial-style structure at 414 Franklin St. has since been converted into a residence.
When the property was put up for sale in 2015, listing agent Ann Duff of McEnearney Associates said this is where America's first president celebrated his last 4th of July in 1799. The property sold that year for $3.2 million.
Richard M. Nixon's Western White House is for sale for $63.5 million. The 9,000-square-foot California Mission Revival mansion, overlooking one of the Pacific Ocean's sweetest surfing spots in San Clemente, California, was nicknamed the "Western White House" when it was owned by Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1980.
The white-stucco, hacienda-style hideaway sits on the top of a secluded bluff and boasts 450 feet of beachfront.
The estate's real name is La Casa Pacifica and once you step under the arched doorway and into the expansive living room with warlord views of the sea and sky, you understand that Nixon was a mere footnote here.
Don't let historic photos of Dick and Pat huddled behind privacy-seeking. pineapple-colored drapes fool you. The architecture, influenced by Andalusia, Spain's classic, courtyard-centered estates, is stunning.
Former Allergan Pharmaceuticals founder Gavin S. Herbert, and his wife, Ninetta, lived here for 35 years. For most of that time, they owned the upscale nursery, Roger's Garden, in Corona del Mar, which is about 25 miles north on Pacific Coast Highway. Tapping into their endless floral inventory, they created themed gardens to rival another Orange County landmark -- Disneyland.
There are vegetable, rose and cutting gardens, and palm trees, of course. Acknowledging the setting and the architecture, the landscape also includes a captivating succulent garden.
A caretaker's cabin -- one of a handful of staff homes -- is near this garden.
The Herberts also updated the residence -- built in 1927 -- but they did not erase its history. There is an outbuilding overlooking the crashing waves where the original owner, Hamilton H. Cotton, played poker with another president, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The size of the property has shrunk since Nixon lived here. It was subdivided into residential lots behind the gated community. The new owner of 4100 Calle Isabella will have a little more than 5 1/2 acres of storied property.
After buying the estate, Nixon replaced the tennis court with a swimming pool and added quarters for Secret Service agents. A new tennis court has been installed and there are now 14 bedrooms and 18 full bathrooms.
Nixon also erected a 1,500-foot wall to keep people at bay, except visiting heads of state, Newport Beach neighbor John Wayne and Nixon's long-time friend, Bebe Rebozo, who helped the politician buy the compound. Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev visited Casa Pacifica in 1973.
Real estate agent Rob Giem of Compass does not have an open house planned for Nixon's former pad. So seeing the entertainment pavilion or even the Spanish-style interior courtyard may be a challenge unless you're a serious buyer.
Unlike the real White House, your elected representative can't get you a tour of the Western White House. You can, however, see Nixon's birthplace and his family home at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace.
In 1913, Nixon's dad bought a kit house from a mail-order catalog and erected a two-story bungalow in sleepy Yorba Linda, 43 miles north from La Casa Pacifica.
Ronald Reagan had been divorced from Oscar-winning actress Jane Wyman and remarried when he was sworn in as president. But when he was married to Wyman for seven years, they lived at 9137 Cordell Dr. in Los Angeles's Hollywood Hills with views of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood.
The gated property, on a private knoll with a long driveway, sold in 2012 for $8.5 million. Listing agent Jade Mills of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage said the estate included a north/south tennis court, pool and Balinese-style pool house.
The house, built in 1942, has five bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a media room, library, indoor and outdoor spa, and large wine cellar.
Fast forward: Ronald Reagan was at his Californian Italianate compound on Nov. 4, 1980, when he received the call from President Jimmy Carter conceding the election and congratulating Reagan on becoming the 40th President of the United States.
The property at 1669 San Onofre Dr. in Pacific Palisades sold for $22 million in February. Listing agent Kurt Rappaport of Westside Estate Agency Inc. says the 4,764-square-foot mansion has an expansive living room, pro screening room, chef's kitchen, paneled library and panoramic views. The outdoor entertainment areas include a saltwater pool, invisible spa and separate guest house.
While serving as president, Barack Obama and his family vacationed at a private, 10-acre compound on Chilmark Pond on Martha's Vineyard.
Originally built in 1961, the 6,967-square-foot main house underwent a complete contemporary redesign in 2006 by Seattle architect Rick Sundberg and landscape architect Steve Stimson.
There are floor-to-ceiling windows, three fireplaces, six bedrooms, seven baths including a private master suite with its own den.
Presidential perks: A half basketball court, home gym, heated infinity pool, private boat dock on the pond as well as three beachfront lots and a two-bedroom guest house.. The property, at 8 Snail Road in Chilmark, Massachusetts, is listed at $17,750,000 by Wallace & Co. Sotheby's.
An exclusive neighborhood two miles from the White House has famous, new residents: The former White House family, the Obamas, and current White House family member, Ivanka Trump.
The New York Times reports Ivanka Trump, President-elect Donald Trump's oldest daughter, moved with her husband, Jared Kushner, and their three children from New York to a modern white house on Tracy Place in the upscale Kalorama section of Washington, D.C.
The 6,870-square-foot mansion sold in December for $5.5 million. The previous owner was Latvian-born financier Dan K. Rapoport of Rapoport Capital, who has investments in Russia, including nightclubs, according to the New York Times.
The Kalorama section, near Embassy Row, is already home to ambassadors and members of Washington's social circuit. The median list price in the tony area is $3.95 million ($709 a square foot), according to the real estate database Redfin.
Nearby, President Barack Obama and his family live in a rented nine-bedroom Tudor-style home on Belmont Road.
The rental is owned by NFL's executive vice president for communications Joe Lockhart and his wife, Giovanna Gray Lockhart, the Washington editor of Glamour. The quarter-acre property sold in May 2014 for $5.295 million, according to the Washingtonian.
Kalorama residents told the New York Times that the Obamas' property underwent extensive security renovations and a security checkpoint was added at the intersection of Belmont Road and Tracy Place, where Ivanka Trump lives when she's in D.C..
President Obama will be the first former president since Woodrow Wilson to stay in D.C. after leaving the White House.
Another coincidence: The real estate database Zillow conducted a poll to determine which celebrity would be the best and worse neighbor.
The most-desirable neighbor for 2017 was the Obama family. In seventh place were Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
The least-desirable star next door: Justin Bieber.
Donald Trump bought his first mansion on a 5.8-acre hunk of a peninsula in Greenwich, Connecticut.
He paid for $4 million in 1982.
The most recent asking price before the property was pulled off the market after not selling for eight years: $45 million, a huge drop from the asking price of $54 million in 2015.
Since Trump departed, owners poured money into the property, including making improvements to the 19,773-square-foot Georgian Colonial-style main house and grounds.
Trump bought the house at 21 Vista Dr. with first wife, Ivana, who was attracted to the gold leaf, chandeliers and crown moldings. When they divorced in 1991, the property was part of her settlement.
She sold the gilded mansion for $15 million in 1998 and new owners expanded it 4,000 square feet and replaced the extravagantly showy decor. Tennis courts, a lap pool and sauna were also added.
The main house has eight bedrooms and 13 baths.
Enter the three-story rotunda foyer and see the double grand staircase. On the main level, there are formal rooms with views of the pool, grounds and Long Island Sound.
For entertainment, there's a home theater and putting green. To help manage the estate, there are three fully-equipped staff apartments, according to TopTenRealEstateDeals.com.
The listing agent was Tamar Lurie of Coldwell Banker in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Don't fear that The Donald is shelterless. His longtime residence is a three-level penthouse at Trump Tower on New York's Fifth Avenue. He also has a 60-room mansion in Bedford, New York with three pools and a bowling alley.
He bought Albemarle, a 23,000-square-foot mansion, vineyard and winery on 2,000 acres in Virginia for $12.7 million and he has a large home on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
You can stay in one of the 100 rooms at his 1920s Mar-A-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. He bought it in 1985 for $10 million and later converted it to a private resort with initiation fees of $100,000, annual dues of $12,000 and nightly rates up to $3,000.
People who have bedded there include Bill Clinton, Regis Philbin, Tony Bennett and Barbara Walters.
The oceanfront, East Hampton estate Hillary and Bill Clinton rented in 2011 and 2012 sold for $29 million in August 2017. Listing agent Rebekah Baker of Sotheby's International Realty said the 10,000-square-foot mansion has eight bedrooms, nine full bathrooms, and two half-bathrooms on 1.02 acres with about 200 feet of direct ocean frontage.
-- Janet Eastman
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