Stunning Cape Cod mansion next to Kennedy Compound lists for $20m

An iconic Cape Cod mansion adjacent to the famed Kennedy compound has deed the white-hot lodging marketplace for a whopping $20 million.

The astir 5,000 square-foot Hyannis Port, Massachusetts mansion has been a poignant backdrop for its highly recognizable neighbors arsenic it borders the storied Kennedy household compound.

Equipped with a breathtaking h2o view, the sprawling eight-bedroom and eight-bathroom property overlooks the six-acre Kennedy spot where John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis erstwhile played shot and sailed connected the Nantucket Sound.

The Kennedys are famously known for their high-profile, glamour during the aureate property of American politics arsenic the politically-focused household has agelong been salient successful American politics, nationalist service, amusement and business.

'There’s nary mode not to consciousness the past and bequest erstwhile you’re connected this property,' Brian Dougherty, spouse and CEO of Corcoran Property Advisors and co-lister of the storied location told The Boston Globe. 

The luxury property deed the marketplace earlier this period astatine $19,800,000, with hopes to pull much imaginable buyers.

With amenities similar a custom-designed swimming pool, a backstage formation and a prodigious lawn - said to person a capableness of 700 radical - the spot is rather the drawback for 1 fortunate buyer.

Shielded by finely manicured gangly hedges and a gated driveway the home's lone presumption extracurricular of the opulent oasis is from different astonishing entreaty of the home, a  widow’s locomotion extortion deck. 

First purchased successful 1999 for conscionable $6 million, the then-owners poured $5 cardinal successful further funds into the seaside property adding oversized solid windows to maximize views of the Hyannis Harbor and Nantucket Sound.

'All 26 rooms person oceanfront views,' Dougherty said.

The luxurious spot went unrecorded connected the marketplace the time earlier Ethel Kennedy - one of the past surviving links to the Camelot epoch of the Kennedy household dynasty - passed away. 

Ethel, Robert F. Kennedy's widow, resided successful the family's location until her unfortunate death.

The property sits conscionable yards distant from the 155 Irving Avenue US National Landmark that is the Kennedy compound. 

In 2012, the compound's Big House, was donated to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. 

John F. Kennedy purchased 1 of the famed compound's galore properties successful 1965 with volition to grow the existing household estate. The 155 Irving Avenue property later became known arsenic the 'President’s House,' and the 'Summer White House' during his presidency.