Kennedy Compound

The Kennedy Compound or Hyannis Port Historic District is the name given to six acres (24,000 m²) of waterfront property on Cape Cod along Nantucket Sound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, United States. It was once the home of American businessman and political figure Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., his wife Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and two of their sons, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Their youngest son, US Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy lived in his parents' house, and it was his main residence from 1982 until his death in 2009. John used the compound as a base for his successful 1960 U.S. Presidential campaign and later as a summer White House and presidential retreat until his assassination in 1963. It...