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Inside Jackie Kennedy Onassis' luxurious homes, from sprawling estates to full-floor apartments

Inside Jackie Kennedy Onassis' luxurious homes, from sprawling estates to full-floor apartments
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This article explores the history of the various luxurious homes owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis throughout her life. It details properties ranging from her childhood apartments in New York to the famous Kennedy Compound in Massachusetts.

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It provides cultural and historical context regarding the private lives of one of the 20th century's most prominent public figures.

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John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Hy Peskin/Getty Images Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis lived in luxurious homes throughout the East Coast. She spent her childhood summers in mansions in the Hamptons, New York, and Rhode Island. Hundreds of acres of Kennedy property on Martha's Vineyard were turned into a nature preserve. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis grew up in spacious New York apartments and several-acre estates, and, after her marriage, spent summers at the famed Kennedy Compound and winters on the family's estate in Palm Beach. Still, she said her family's "happiest years" were those spent with her husband, President John F. Kennedy, in the White House . Before they moved there, the couple lived in a 19th-century red-brick home in Georgetown, Washington, DC, which recently sold for $6.125 million, Mansion Global reported. The Kennedys bought the home in 1957 for $82,000.

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