February 4, 2009
President Barack Obama’s many dwellings over the years
Today we’re going to make a quick departure from our normal course of business and provide a rundown of the various properties that President Barack Obama has owned or inhabited over the years. Of course, we’re missing a few of his abodes in his life (there are some gaps that we really should fill in), but we want to highlight — with photos, of course — the ones that we know of, with relevant figures as well.
And while we freely admit that we were motivated to do this by a blurb the other day in the New York Observer, the truth is that we’ve been mulling a post like this for quite some time.
So, without further ado, a journey through Obama’s various residences in his lifetime:
–An apartment at 1617 S. Beretania Street #1008 in the Punahou Circle Apartments in Honolulu, where he lived with his mother and grandmother during his youth (1961 until 1967 and again from 1971 until 1979) and during his college years when school wasn’t in session;
–From 1967 until 1971, Obama lived in Jakarta, Indonesia, in a modest home on Haji Ramli Tengah Street and then in a Dutch colonial-style house in one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in Jakarta on Taman Amir Hamza Street;
–Haines Hall at Occidental College in Los Angeles’ Eagle Rock neighborhood, where he lived during his first year of college (1979-1980); Obama lived in an undetermined off-campus apartment his second year of college;
–The third-floor walkup at 142 W. 109th Street in Manhattan Valley in New York City, which Obama inhabited during his junior semesters at Columbia University in 1981-1982;
–339 E. 94th Street #6A in Manhattan, where the future president lived during his senior year (1982-1983) at Columbia (we’re told he also lived in an apartment at 622 W. 114th Street during his time at Columbia as well);
–From 1988 until 1991, during law school, the hard-working Obama lived in Somerville, Mass. in a three-story brick apartment building at 365 Broadway;
–From 1993 until 2005, in a ground-floor condominium unit in the brick condo building at 5450 S. East View Park in Chicago that he and wife Michelle bought in July 1993 for $277,500. They sold it to jazzman Kurt Elling in 2005 for $415,000, according to public records;
–The much-written-about, heavily fortified, 6,199-square-foot mansion on South Greenwood in Chicago that Obama and wife Michelle purchased in 2005 for $1,650,000 and continue to own to this day;
–And now, finally, the White House, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
Filed under Celebrity Homes, Movers & Shakers by Bob Goldsborough
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Barack Obama Lived Here and Here, Here, Here, and Here! - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper @ 7:04 pm
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His apartments should be national landmarks.
Mitt Romney lists his seven-bedroom mansion in Park City, UT for $5.25M, is expected to soon list his mansion in Belmont, MA @ 4:30 pm
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Nice, missing a few places.
4 months ago: The house where U.S. Presidential candidate Barrack Obama lived when he, his mother and stepfather lived in Indonesia Tuesday Oct. 28, 2008 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Anticipation that Barack Obama may soon be the next U.S. president has sent a steady stream of visitors to the colonial-era house he lived in as a child, from potential buyers and journalists to a Dutchman who wants to turn it into the “Sweet Home Obama Bar.”
There a mistake here in assuming that Obama’s grandparents always lived at the Punahou Circle Apartments.
August 4, 1961 — Lived with his maternal grandparents at 6085 Kalaniana’ole Highway
By Sept 25, 1961, records show his mother was attending classes at the University of Washington. President Obama lived with his mother in Seattle at 516 13th Ave E until at least the summer of 1962. She returned to Honolulu for Fall 1962. She is listed as living at 2277 Kamehameha Avenue with her son. By 1964, Obama, his mother and his grandparents were living an idyllic small house at 2234 University Avenue where Obama attended nearby kindergarten at Noelani Elementary School. After that Obama moved to Jakarta and returned to Punahou Circle Apartments.
Also Obama lived at 5429 South Harper Avenue in Hyde Park, Chicago when he first moved there in 1985 until he left to attend Harvard Law School. Also, right after getting married, Obama and his wife lived with his mother-in-law at 7436 South Euclid Avenue in Southshore, Chicago.
Look it up for yourself, but here is where his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, lived during her lifetime.
According to 1942 birth annocement in the Wichita Eagle, her parents were living at 917 Faulkner St in Wichita. After her father return from WWII, the family went to live in Berkeley, California. Then in 1948, they moved to Ponca City, Oklahoma lived on W. Central Ave and then N. 13th Ave. Then in 1952, they moved to 2227 Roberts St in Vernon, Texas. Then moved to 1434 W. Olive St in El Dorado, Kansas. Then 7529 N.E. 39th Ave in Seattle then in 1956, they moved to 3206 E. Lexington Way on Mercer Island until 1960 and then they moved to Honolulu.
Also from 1993 to 1995, Obama’s mother work at the Women’s World Banking and lived in Manhattan at 235 E. 40th St.
Hear they are going to to turn that house into some kind of tourist trap coffee house-gift shop…