Life in the house
Jackie's apartment was very friendly and it changed very little in the 30 years she was there.
She wanted it to be nice for her children. She had a map of the world in the dining room and she would show and tell them about the places she travelled to with their father. One of few places she enjoyed describing was her beloved second home of France.
Caroline started school at the Convent of Sacred Heart, a Catholic school located on East 91st Street. It was and is still to this day, one of the best girl's schools in the city in 1964. Then four years later, John-John started school at Collegiate School for Boys in 1968.
After school the children would play in Central Park and Jackie would often join them. In autumn, they had tennis lessons in the park with a man who they called Mr Fenton. In winter, they went sledging with Jackie at the hill behind the art museum. They would always return wanting a small snack or something warm to drink.
In winter, returning into the apartment with their snowy boots and their sledges, the family would have some hot chocolate with cookies and that would keep them satisfied until dinner.
At 1040, Jackie also taught manners with her children. They were raised differently compared to the way Bobby and Ethel raised their children. Jackie raised them as Bouviers, the way European children were raised. They were taught to stand up when someone important enters the room, shake hands when introduced to people and ask permission before leaving the table.
Jackie also gave her children freedom, allowing them to go to friend's homes and invite friend's to their home too. She stated she didn't just want them to be two kids who live on Fifth Avenue and go to nice schools. She loved to have fun with them. They were her whole world.
Jackie loved her apartment. It was her enjoyment. Her favourite room was the library. She loved to sit there and read a book on the couch and smoke some cigarettes. From her bedroom, she could look out onto the street and gaze at the park, the museum and the reservior. It was the same as the living room, the library, the dining room and the terrace.
Jackie had three terraces in her home. The main one was at the front where she could look out onto the street. She watched parades on the street from her terrace and she planted crab apples in wooden planters on the terrace too.
Jackie's bedroom was the same design as Marie Harriman's bedroom. Upon leaving the White House, the Harriman's lent Jackie their house. She stayed there for two months before purchasing her own home across the street and then she moved to New York.
In New York, Jackie was often seen out and about. She enjoyed cycling in the park and there is images of her leaving the Colony Club. But mostly there is some of her enjoying her favourite thing ever, shopping.
There is millions of photographs of her hanging around the French boutiques such as Chanel and Givenchy. She was also seen a lot at art museums and antique shops and she often attended ballet and theatre performances. And she was seen several times at the old and (once the old one was torn down) the new Metropolitan Opera House.
Then again, Jackie was seen walking her children and their friends to school.
When her children were older and Jackie began a new career, she was often seen walking around the park, or travelling to her work at Viking Press and later, Doubleday.
When Jackie died, her apartment was put up for sale via Sothebys. and it sold in 1996 for $9.5 million.
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