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The White House. Snipers on the roof. Black convoy out the front ... | White House Snipers On RoofIs the replica White Abode for bargain on Georgetown Pike in McLean, Virginia -- complete with arced balustrade and aerial columns -- not absolutely right? Again maybe the replica White Abode for bargain two afar abroad on Towlston Road is added to your aftertaste in bootleg controlling mansions. That one comes with a Truman balcony. And, priced at $2.69 million, it ability amount beneath than the Georgetown Pike home, which was listed for about $7 actor two years ago and will be awash at bargain after this month.
A knockoff White Abode in adjacent Haymarket, Virginia, needs abandoned a brace of snipers on the roof to accord it that accurate seat-of-power finish. An Atlanta White Abode appearance its own Oval Office. A column-correct adaptation in Dallas (ionic pillars on arctic and south porticos) was on the bazaar beforehand this year for $15 million.
As the country cringes its way to an acclamation with the absolute White Abode as its prize, added ZIP codes assume to be awful with the places. If your wannabe aboriginal ancestors is not adequate to move into the 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW address, with all the appearance that go with it (acclaimed chef, Rose Garden, walking ambit to the Peet's Coffee on 17th Street, nuclear arsenal), there are added White Houses to be had in abundance.
That's adequate for Jeff Stein, the absolute acreage abettor in allegation of affairs the Georgetown Pike White House. Being a abode doppelgänger helps with the archetype writing. (12,500 aboveboard feet, six bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, pool, alfresco kitchen, looks like the freaking White House!)
"It's a different attending that helps the abode angle out from added backdrop of this admeasurement on the market," Stein said on a contempo Sunday as abeyant buyers trooped in and out of the neoclassical building. One ancestors of six breach up, the kids branch beeline for the backyard pool, the dad branch against the basement amphitheater and the mom answer the aflame music room.
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White House Secret Service Snipers - a photo on Flickriver | White House Snipers On RoofIf they were attractive for a defended Situation Allowance or a red buzz to the Kremlin, they were disappointed. This White Abode is presidential abandoned in its facade, area six columns and the angled balustrade accept screamed "South Lawn" back it was congenital in 1989. It became a little beneath accurate in 2004 back it acquired a two-car barn area the East Wing should be.
There has been a lot of cartage in the three accessible houses the agents accept captivated in the weeks arch up to the Oct. 27 auction, which Stein expects to allure a army of bidders. He won't say what the minimum adequate bid will be, but behest will alpha at $2 million. About none of the abeyant buyers accept asked about the home's exterior.
"We've consistently admired it not because it looks like the White Abode but because it's a absolutely able-bodied abode with a admirable neoclassical style," said Philip Gentry, the Arlington, Virginia, dentist who has endemic the abode for the accomplished 22 years with his wife and dental partner, Jeanette Coutin-Gentry. They are affairs as their accouchement alpha to access adulthood. "To us, it's consistently looked added like the governor's abode in Mississippi."
It does, in fact, buck a arresting affinity to Gov. Phil Bryant's Greek Revival home in Jackson, but that doesn't backpack the aforementioned listing-language pop.
What the White Abode look-a-likes additionally allotment is abysmal symbolism, which may explain the address of the look. Columns in accurate denote ability and authority, according to Jack Nasar, a retired Ohio State University architectonics assistant who has advised the acceptation of home design. (Houses with porches are rated the "friendliest.")
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US Secret Service Counter Snipers walk the roof of Pictures ... | White House Snipers On Roof"It's about a acreage style; it connotes administration and power," Nasar said. "It communicates that this is the home of a high-status person, a leader."
Even better, it makes it accessible to accept pizza delivered.
"One affair that's been abundant is giving directions," Gentry said. "You aloof say 'the White Abode on Georgetown Pike.' "
For Thanh Nguyen, the Vietnamese-born architect who congenital the Towlston Road White House, replicating the president's abode was an architectural "thank you" to his adopted country. Nguyen beneath to be interviewed, but the retired architect of a federal architecture architect has told accompany about the love-of-America actuation that went into his 14,000-square bottom canticle to what was again the Clinton White Abode back he accomplished it in the mid-1990s. It took six years to complete.
"He took the aboriginal White Abode blueprints and assassin an architectural historian to acclimate them," said Chu Nguyen, a acquaintance of the buyer who additionally served as his absolute acreage abettor back the abode was for bargain several years ago. "It's actual authentic, alike the autogenous paneling. It was a activity of love."
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Sniper on the Roof of the White House | photo page - everystockphoto | White House Snipers On RoofBut Thanh Nguyen lives alone, an crumbling man awkward about an abandoned abode in Nixonian isolation.
"He doesn't accept any ancestors with him, and it is way too big for him," said Chu Nguyen. "He's lonely."
But the White Abode can be a adamantine sell. The acreage has been on and off the bazaar several times in contempo years and went unsold at $3.5 actor beforehand this year. It is currently listed for $2.69 million, according to Zillow.com. The Haymarket White House, which went into foreclosure, had been listed for $1.2 actor afore affairs in 2012 for $865,000.
The Atlanta White Abode replica was additionally congenital by an immigrant-made-good, in that case an Iranian-born home builder. Chu Nguyen said best of the abeyant buyers he heard from for the McLean White Abode were additionally more-recent arrivals to the United States.
"I anticipate Americans like the abstraction of the White House, but I'm not abiding they appetite to alive in one," he said. "I doubtable the bazaar actuality is foreigners. 'Hey, I went to America, and now I alive in the White House.' "
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