Col. John Ashe House

[1] The house stands on Lot 45 of a subdivision of the peninsula known as the Grand Model Plan.

It features a three-story piazza across the width of the southern facade overlooking White Point Garden and has a cupola on the hipped roof.

Mr. A. Kinloch McDowell bought the house in December 1937, and sold to Mr. Ashmead F. Pringle, Jr., the vice-president of the Merchants Fertilizer Co., in 1944.

[2] In an earlier sale, Mr. and Mrs. Howland Spencer of New York bought the house from Mrs. Lane Mullally for $50,000 to use as a winter residence.

[7] The house held that title until either March 2020, when just the penthouse of the People's Office Building sold for $12 million, setting the high water mark among all residential sales, or June 2020, when the Sword Gate House sold for $10 million, setting the high water mark among the sales of houses.