Hickory Hill (McLean, Virginia)

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Hickory Hill is a large brick house in McLean, Virginia, in the United States, believed to have been built in the 1840s by a family named Walter. The land on which it is built is believed to have been part of a Lee family tract of called Langley. General George B. McClellan reportedly used Hickory Hill as temporary headquarters during the American Civil War.

The house has been the home of notable public figures. In July 1941, it became the home of newly appointed United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson and his wife, Irene, who, in 1955, after his death, sold Hickory Hill to United States Senator John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline. After the 1956 Democratic National Convention, the Kennedys sold the house 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.

Expanded by Robert Kennedy's family, the house is for sale for $12,500,000, a 50-percent reduction from its original asking price; it is rumored to need major renovation.