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Georgetown’s historic Henry Foxhall House sold for $9.1M

The historic Henry Foxhall House in Georgetown has just sold for $9.1 million, making it one of the most expensive sales in the region this year.

David Deckelbaum, attorney and president of D.C.-based Settlement Corp., sold the 6,000-square-foot mansion at 3123 Dumbarton St. NW on Aug. 8, according to a filing in the D.C. recorder of deeds.

Foxhall, former mayor of Georgetown, built the six-bedroom, four-and-a-half bath home around 1800 as a wedding gift to his daughter, Mary Ann, and son-in-law, Samuel McKenny, according to the Historic American Buildings Survey administered by the National Park Service.

The gardens were designed by Georgetown resident Rose Greely, a landscape architect who was the first woman to be licensed in that career the District, according to Historic Americans Buildings Survey.

The property was last sold for $7 million in 2012.

The three-story house has been home to a handful of high-profile residents including Gerald Rafshoon, a veteran television producer…

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Sonic Drive-In to open its first restaurant in Northern Virginia’s I-95 corridor

Fast-food chain Sonic Drive-In has filed plans to build a new restaurant in Prince William County, its first outpost along the Interstate 95 corridor in Northern Virginia. The 1,400-square-foot restaurant, with two drive-thru lanes, 12 pull-up ordering stalls and a dining patio, will be located at 4115 Talon Drive in Dumfries, part of the Barracks Row at Quantico commercial development less than a mile northwest of the I-95 interchange at state Route 234. The location “will constitute a flagship Sonic design that will serve as a benchmark for future restaurant drive-thru development,” according to a written narrative accompanying the application, filed by Noah Klein of Venable LLP.
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