Bushes confirm purchase of Dallas home in Preston Hollow (8,501 sq ft, $2 million)

[rainbow4321]

Figuring it is OK to post this info since it is all over the DMN website, including the pic.


http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/DN-laura_04nat.State.Edition1.129bae9.html

The White House confirmed Thursday that the Bushes have purchased a house in Dallas’ Preston Hollow neighborhood for the couple to live in after his presidency ends in January


The president's accountant in Midland, Robert McCleskey, purchased the house at 10141 Daria Place as a trustee on Oct. 3, according to records on file with the Dallas Central Appraisal District, which values the home at $2,078,660.

Built in 1959, the home sits on 1.13 acres, has four bedrooms, 4 ½ baths, a wet bar, a fireplace and 8,501 square feet of living space, including 896 square feet of servant quarters.

D magazine's real estate blog reported Wednesday night that the house next door went under contract last week but that the buyer remains a mystery. The deal is scheduled to close next Wednesday





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http://dallasdirt.dmagazine.com/2008/12/03/dallas-dirt-exclusive-the-bushs-dallas-homes/

Here’s why: on October 1, Robert A. McCleskey bought a home at 10141 Daria Place. McCleskey is the Bushes’ Midland accountant and good friend of the First Couple. He’s also the man who placed the Bushes’ assets in a blind trust when W. became governor of Texas in 1995. McCleskey bought the home from Dan and Laura Boeckman. As far as I know, it hadn’t been on the market. (Of note: Dan Boeckman is one of the investors in Museum Tower.)

Daria Place is a sweet, leafy cul de sac off Daria Drive, which is off Meaders, in Preston Hollow, and across from Pershing Elementary School. (Read: uber safe.) Though the home was built in 1959, the interior has been completely refurbished and beautifully decked out — totally top notch, according to my sources, and contemporary. The one-story home has 8,501 square feet on 1.13 acres and no pool. The Bushes already have a pool at the Crawford ranch, which the President once called a “whine”
pool. The kids whine so much, you just give in. This home has been placed in a trust.

Last week, the house next door, 10151 Daria Place, went under contract. The home, a sprawling 4,684-square-foot ranch on 1.26 acres, is unoccupied and in the estate of Joan Northway. It is listed for $1.6 million by LeeLee Gioia and Anne Goyler with Briggs-Freeman. The buyer on the contract: an Allie Beth Allman “property company and/or assigns.” The home is set to close December 10. Also no pool, just a creek running along the northern property line.

This is the perfect setting for the Bushes for many reasons. A cul de sac, so the neighbors could agree to gate it off. Easy Tollway access down at Walnut Hill Lane (an entrance ramp south at Meaders would be mighty handy) or up at Royal. Cooper Aerobics is just a couple of miles north. Gosh, he could almost jog up there. And Laura could even volunteer at Pershing Elementary or St. Mark’s. But the best thing: both properties back up to two enormous Dallas estates — the 14.26-acre estate of Gene and Roxanne Phillips (just had a trout-filled lake installed on the property) and the 24-plus-acre estate of Thomas O. and Cinda Hicks, who hosted a fundraiser in their home for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani last year. Seclusion, safety, and true blue — make that red — friends all around them.

[musette_sf]

1. "10141 Daria Place "

diarrhea cha-cha-cha

[Submariner]

2. Any DU'ers living next door?

That would be depressing knowing you had Dubya on the other side of your lawn. Posting here, while brother and sister DU'ers urge you to go next door and kick Dubya in the nuts. It would be rough. Real estate values will start plummeting in that neighborhood when Al Qaeda starts delivering pizza's for Domino's.

[muntrv]

3. In other words, dimson is elitist.

[dflprincess]

4. Not a lot of brush to clear on 1.13 acres

thank God it has a wet bar so George will have something to do.

[bdamomma]

5. maybe he will slip off the wet bar stool.

[bluedawg12]

6. I thought he was mulling over working on HIV issues in poor nations?

Oh, wait, he was just kidding. :sarcasm:

[Mudoria]

10. Hmmm.....

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/01/world.aids.day/

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4303636&page=1

[bluedawg12]

12. Bush told Charlie Gibson he had thought of "going" to work in some other nation

like Africa, or South America, upon retirement from the white house.
It was part of his musing about being too young to fully retire, then, when asked would he actually do such a thing he just said, "Naw."

Instead he is buying a 2.3 million dollar home in Texas, a far cry from his momentary rumination.

[bluedawg12]

14. Bush Gibson interview transcript: go help people deal with malaria or AIDS

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/Story?id=6356046&page=7
TRANSCRIPT: Charles Gibson Interviews President George W. Bush 2008

GIBSON: You're only 62, though.

BUSH: Right.

GIBSON: Is there one more deal in you? Is there one more thing you really want to achieve?

BUSH: That's an interesting question. I'm confident -- look, first of all, you don't get to be President unless you're a "Type A" personality who's driven to do things. And I am confident I'll be driven to do something; I just can't tell you what it is yet.

Steve Hadley and I were sitting around -- he's the National Security Advisor -- sitting around; I said, wouldn't it be interesting for baby boomers not to retire in nice places, but to retire -- during their retirement, go help people deal with malaria or AIDS. In other words -- and I'm not suggesting that's what I'm going to do, but it is the kind of thing that intrigues me.

But I, frankly, Charlie, haven't had time to figure it out yet. http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/Story?id=6356046&page=7

[nancyr]

7. Plenty of servants to boss around!

[trayfoot]

8. According to several of the tabloids.......

this is LAURA's house! The papers claim she made a deal not to divorce shrub if he bought her this house and agreed to a monthly stipend. Supposedly, he is going to live in Crawford. Who knows???????

[high density]

9. how wussy!

Edwards' is 28,000sqft and he couldn't even get elected VP.

[kskiska]

11. Sounds like this is just an interim house

(snip)

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday while unveiling this year's Christmas decorations, Laura Bush said that she and the president were counting pennies in order to afford their new digs. "We will be moving to Dallas in January, and there might be a new house coming along," Mrs. Bush said. "So I think that's where we'll spend our Christmas money."

more…
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/12/04/the_bushes_buy_a_dallas_house.html

[wildbilln864]

13. So what about...

his Paraguay land?
:shrug: