Residents love the safety, engendered by the abundance of embassy police officers and Secret Service police, and the convenience to Dupont Circle, Adams-Morgan and the park. And of course, the prestige. Her husband owns and operates apartment buildings. All of this comes at a price. Pardoe Real Estate Inc. But some transactions cost more than money, requiring years of cultivating potential sellers.
People keep their eye out.
The scarcity of private residences may be one reason for such transactions, with more than one-quarter of the 686 buildings being used as embassies, chanceries or apartment buildings. And their homes live up to their owner's titles. Another on Bancroft Place houses a room that was imported piece by piece from a French castle. Still another, a 1754 structure called the Morris House, was dismantled in Danvers, Mass., and rebuilt on Kalorama Circle. Not to mention the embassies, ranging from the chateau-like French Embassy to small nations operating out of row houses, which spice up Kalorama life.