Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis grew up successful freely New York apartments and several-acre estates, and, aft her marriage, spent summers astatine the famed Kennedy Compound and winters connected the family's property successful Palm Beach.
Still, she said her family's "happiest years" were those spent pinch her husband, President John F. Kennedy, successful the White House.
Before they moved there, the mates lived successful a 19th-century red-brick location successful Georgetown, Washington, DC, which precocious sold for $6.125 million, Mansion Global reported. The Kennedys bought the location successful 1957 for $82,000.
While astir of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' erstwhile homes tin only beryllium admired from the outside, 1 of her last properties is unfastened to visitors.
Parts of what was erstwhile known arsenic Red Gate Farm connected Martha's Vineyard opened to the nationalist past summer, The Vineyard Gazette reported successful 2025. Five miles of nationalist trails meander done the land, which the Kennedy family sold to 2 nonprofits successful 2020 and is now known arsenic Squibnocket Pond Reservation.
Here are each of the awesome places she lived successful and owned successful her lifetime.
Before she was a Kennedy aliases an Onassis, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier spent her early years successful New York City.
In 1932, the Bouviers moved into an flat connected the sixth and seventh floors of 740 Park Avenue.
The flat building was developed by her grandfather, James T. Lee, The New York Times reported. At slightest for a period, her begetter couldn't spend to furnish it truthful Jackie and her sister could roller skate from room to room, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The flat building later became a location for billionaires and was erstwhile considered 1 of the most iconic flat buildings successful the city.
In 2017, her aged flat sold for $25.25 million.
In the 1940s, Bouvier's mother remarried, and they near New York.
They moved into a Georgian-style mansion called "Merrywood" successful McLean, Virginia, adjacent Washington, DC.
The 23,000-square-foot mansion, which was built successful 1919, had 9 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms.
Bouvier's mother had joined an oil magnate named Hugh D. Auchincloss, who owned the mansion.
The location sits connected the separator of the Potomac River and has an extended garden.
Bouvier wrote fondly astir the location successful her diary, saying, "I ever emotion it truthful astatine Merrywood — truthful serene … pinch the stream and those awesome steep hills."
Bouvier spent her summers astatine her paternal grandfather's East Hampton estate.
The 8,500-square-foot home, which was built successful 1917, is called "Lasata," which intends "place of peace," successful the autochthonal Algonquian language.
In 2023, manner designer Tom Ford bought it for $52 million, The Wall Street Journal reported.
She besides spent immoderate of her summers astatine her maternal grandfather's location successful East Hampton called "Wildmoor."
The 18th-century home, covering astir 5,700 quadrate feet, was a shingle-and-clapboard woody location pinch a position of fields, a swamp, and the sea, per the WSJ.
In 2021, the location was sold for $6.8 million.
Her adjacent notable spot was the Kennedy family's summertime location successful Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
Joseph Kennedy Sr., John F. Kennedy's father, bought a white-shingled cottage in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, successful 1928 for $25,000, aliases astir $470,000 today. The coastal Massachusetts cottage became the Kennedy family's location guidelines for years to come.
Before they married, Bouvier and John F. Kennedy spent clip together there.
It later became known arsenic the "Kennedy Compound."
In 1953, Bouvier became a Kennedy erstwhile the mates joined successful Newport, Rhode Island.
They had the wedding reception astatine her mother's husband's sprawling estate, known arsenic "Hammersmith Farm," anchored by a grand, 28-room Victorian-era mansion.
The spot was past sold successful 1999 for conscionable complete $8 million.
The property became a part-time summertime location for the Kennedys, on pinch the Kennedy Compound.
Jackie Kennedy spent summers connected the property during her childhood, and the Kennedys later vacationed location successful the summertime of 1961.
In 1953, not agelong aft the Kennedys were married, they rented a four-story, four-bedroom location successful Washington, DC.
The Kennedys lived location for almost 2 years.
They enjoyed throwing meal parties and spending clip successful the backmost gardens.
The house, which was built successful the 1940s, is astir 3,000 quadrate feet.
It past sold for $4 cardinal successful April 2025.
Two years later, successful 1955, the Kennedys moved to "Hickory Hill," different Georgian-style house.
The location was built successful 1815 and had a tennis court, a pool, and 12 fireplaces connected a 5.6-acre crippled successful McLean, Virginia.
They bought it from Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, The Washington Post reported.
Two years later, the Kennedys sold it for $125,000 to John's brother, Robert, who would extremity up raising his ain family there.
Jackie didn't want to spell backmost aft her girl was stillborn.
The mates sold it to Robert Kennedy for the aforesaid value they'd paid, The Washington Post reported.
Robert Kennedy was astatine the location erstwhile he heard John had been assassinated, the Baltimore Sun reported. He spent an hr alone, stepping astir the estate.
In 1956, the Kennedys bought a summertime location successful Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, correct beside the original Kennedy summertime home.
The 4,484-square-foot clapboarded location sat connected little than an acre of onshore and soon became portion of the "Kennedy Compound."
They spent $45,948 connected the house, The Wall Street Journal reported.
In 1957, the Kennedys bought an 18th-century ceramic statement location successful Georgetown for $82,000.
Jackie spent astir $18,000 connected remodeling the home, called Marbury House for William Marbury (you mightiness retrieve his sanction from societal studies class), which was built successful 1811, and she dressed up it pinch armchairs and good porcelain.
Her hubby campaigned and was elected president during their years here, Architectural Digest reported. They lived successful the location betwixt 1957 and 1961, trading it soon after.
In 2026, the 5,215-square-foot, five-bedroom location sold for $6.125 million.
Though not a spot she owned, Jackie lived successful the White House pinch her family during her husband's presidency from 1961 to 1963.
She later described this play arsenic her family's "happiest years," The Daily Beast reported.
While they were surviving successful the White House, they spent winters astatine her father-in-law Joseph Kennedy's Palm Beach estate.
The Palm Beach property became known arsenic the Kennedys' "winter White House." In 2020, the location sold for $70 cardinal and underwent extended renovations by the caller owner.
In 1963, aft her hubby was assassinated, Jackie and her children near the White House and moved into an 18th-century location successful DC.
She paid astir $175,000 for the five-bedroom location but only lived location for astir a year. It was excessively public, and she reportedly became overwhelmed pinch each of the tourists.
In 2017, it was purchased for $5.25 million.
Jackie Kennedy owned the flat until she died successful 1994.
It was bought from her property successful 1995 for $9.2 million.
The purchaser said she hadn't done overmuch upkeep, and they ended up gutting the full apartment.
While she was alive, she began dividing her clip betwixt France, Greece, Martha's Vineyard, and New Jersey.
She kept New York arsenic a location base.
She besides sewage joined again successful 1968 to a Greek shipping magnate named Aristotle Onassis and became Jackie Onassis, aliases "Jackie O."
In 1974, she purchased a state home, a converted barn connected almost 10 acres, for $200,000 successful Peapack, New Jersey.
She liked the area for its earthy beauty and abstraction for equine riding, The New York Times reported.
She knew the area good because she had antecedently rented a farmhouse described by The Times arsenic a "badly made-over barn" successful Bernardsville since 1965.
After she bought the property, she painted it yellowish pinch achromatic trim.
After her death, a neighbour and friend bought the spot for $1.47 cardinal successful 1997.
The neighbor, Marjorie McDonnell Walsh, told The Wall Street Journal they tore the location down.
"It doesn't matter," she said erstwhile declining to stock specifications astir the caller house. "The overmuch much important point is we some emotion the property. It's a backstage valley. It's beautiful."
In 1979, aft her 2nd hubby died, Jackie decided to build a caller location called "Red Gate Farm" connected 340 acres of Martha's Vineyard land.
She reportedly spent a small much than $1 cardinal connected the land, and past different $3.1 cardinal connected building the house, which was vanished successful 1981.
The main building covers 6,456 quadrate feet. There's besides a four-bedroom impermanent house, a pool, and a tennis court. The spot stretches crossed a mile of beach.
Starting successful 2020, parts of the property were sold for $37 million. The onshore opened arsenic a nationalist parkland successful 2025.
Two nonprofits, the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank and Sheriff's Meadow Foundation, bought 304 acres of the onshore for $27 million, the Vineyard Gazette reported, and the Land Bank later bought an further 32 acres for $10 million. It is now known arsenic Squibnocket Pond Reservation, and members of the nationalist tin locomotion connected trails that trim done the land.
But it's not easy — successful the summer, conscionable 10 parking spaces are unfastened to the public, and you request an online preservation to get them.
The Kennedy family still owns 65 acres of the estate, including the home, the Vineyard Gazette reported successful 2025. This onshore is retired of position from the nationalist area, meaning you're improbable to spot immoderate Kennedys moving around, The New York Times reported.
Editor's note: This communicative was first published successful September 2023 and was astir precocious updated successful September 2026 pinch further information.
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