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Over the years, the compound expanded to include the “Big House,” a 21-room mansion meticulously decorated by Rose Kennedy, and two additional properties acquired by John F. Kennedy and Robert ...
The Kennedy Compound consists of three houses on six acres (2.4 hectares) of waterfront property in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. [2] [3] It was once the home of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., an American businessman, investor, and diplomat; his wife, Rose; and their nine children, including U.S. President and Senator John F. Kennedy and U.S. Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy.
Senator Ted Kennedy and NBC News’s Barbara Walters during an interview at the Kennedy Compound on May 29, 1970. NBC NewsWire - Getty Images In triumph and tragedy alike, the compound served as a ...
After the 1956 Democratic National Convention, the house was sold to John's brother Robert F. Kennedy and his wife, Ethel, who had a growing family (eventually eleven children). While he lived at Hickory Hill, Robert Kennedy became Attorney General of the United States in 1961; a United States senator in 1965; and a presidential candidate in 1968.
Hyannis Port is the location of the Kennedy Compound [5] and other Kennedy family residences and, as such, is included in the National Register of Historic Places. There are three Kennedy houses on the compound: Rose's, Jack's, and Ethel's. (Ted's house was nearby but not in the compound itself.)
Kennedy brothers, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy, pose outside the iconic Kennedy Compound on Cape Cod in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Historical - Getty Images 1953
The district does have a few 18th-century houses, but most of its houses are in the styles popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The most famous residents of Hyannis Port, however, are the Kennedy family, whose compound is a National Historic Landmark. Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy purchased the compound's main house in 1926. [2]
A Kennedy wedding celebration turned 'somber' Retired Barnstable Police Sgt. Sean Sweeney, a 39-year veteran of the force, was working a wedding security detail at the Kennedy compound that ...