{Photograph} by Andrew Beaujon.
The five-bedroom farmhouse in Alexandria’s Del Ray neighborhood consists of 4 bedrooms in the primary unit, off-street parking, and a snazzy ADU out again. The itemizing additionally has fairly the backstory: Its present proprietor is the vice chairman of the US.
JD Vance purchased the home in 2023 for about $1.6 million. The neighborhood was an uncommon selection for a outstanding conservative—Del Ray voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden in 2020 and for Kamala Harris 4 years later, and its boho-by-way-of-Patagonia-vest vibe will not be a simple match with the MAGA philosophy. Vance and his household stored largely to themselves, a development that safety considerations accelerated when Trump selected Vance as his working mate final July.
The US Secret Service instituted frequent closures at a park that adjoined Vance’s property the next month, together with roadblocks and a powerful police presence that examined neighbors’ endurance. Some folks chalked pro-Harris messages on the Jersey limitations that appeared across the park’s perimeter, and somebody—I by no means fairly came upon whom—ordered them repainted at one level.
Agitation about Vance’s presence helped gas a battle of political indicators that gripped Del Ray earlier than the final election: Some folks positioned indicators and banners in ways in which appeared designed to enter Vance’s view; others filed complaints with the town about their dimension. One home urged voters to “Maintain JD in Del Ray”—one bought the impression this was not as a result of they appreciated him as a neighbor.
That effort, as we’re all fairly conscious, was not profitable. Vance and his household now occupy the US Naval Observatory on Embassy Row. And his home will be yours for $1.7 million.
