Projo Politics Blog

And in this week’s real estate news: That For Sale sign on the front lawn of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s Elmgrove Avenue house in Providence is not an optical illusion. The senator and his wife, Sandra, are selling the house and consolidating their family at their house on Carroll Avenue in Newport, which the Whitehouses have long used as a summer place. Daughter Molly Whitehouse is a student at Yale University and son Alexander Whitehouse is attending boarding school, so Sheldon and Sandra Whitehouse will be empty-nesters this fall. The family has not purchased a house in Washington, D.C.; Sheldon Whitehouse is still bunking in with an aunt who owns a house in the District of Columbia when the Senate is in session.

Whitehouse spokeswoman Alex Swartsel declined to say where Alexander Whitehouse is attending boarding school. Molly Whitehouse graduated from Wheeler School in Providence before matriculating at Yale, her father’s alma mater.

smackay@projo.com

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