Bernie Sanders's House

Bernie Sanders has represented Vermont in the US Senate since 2007, after 16 years in the House and 8 as mayor of Burlington. The independent ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and again in 2020.

DC's property tax roll dates this row house to 1890. It is a 2-story house set in the middle of its row, with common brick walls, a standing-seam metal roof, and 1 fireplace.

The house stands inside the Capitol Hill Historic District, protected by DC in 1973 and listed on the National Register in 1976. About 8,000 contributing buildings make it one of the largest historic districts in the country.

Most of Capitol Hill's modest row houses went up in the last decades of the 1800s, after territorial governor Alexander Shepherd's 1870s public works set off a building boom. Middle-class federal workers bought many of them.

Sanders and his wife, Jane, bought the house in February 2007, a month after he was sworn in as a senator. The DC tax roll still lists them both as owners, with no sale recorded since.

Before the Sanderses, the house changed hands 3 times in 6 years, in 2000, 2002, and 2005. None of those owners stayed as long as Sanders has: nearly 20 years and counting.

At a February 2020 debate, Michael Bloomberg mocked Sanders as a socialist millionaire with 3 houses, this one included. Sanders answered that the Washington house is where he works, Fox Business reported.