Bill Gates's house is a 66,000 square foot Pacific lodge style mansion he designed and owns on the shore of Lake Washington in Medina, Washington, built with an earth sheltered design by the firms Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and Cutler Anderson Architects. Sometimes called Xanadu 2.0 after the fictional estate in Citizen Kane, it includes a domed private library, a 60 foot swimming pool with an underwater music system, a 2,500 square foot gym, six kitchens, and 24 bathrooms, and in 2009 its assessed value of about 147.5 million dollars produced roughly 1.063 million dollars in property taxes. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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1. Bill Gates's house (Wikipedia)
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Bill Gates designed and owns a 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) mansion that is on Lake Washington in Medina, Washington.
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Bill Gates's house is a 66,000 square foot Pacific lodge style mansion he designed and owns on the shore of Lake Washington in Medina, Washington, built with an earth sheltered design by the firms Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and Cutler Anderson Architects. Sometimes called Xanadu 2.0 after the fictional estate in Citizen Kane, it includes a domed private library, a 60 foot swimming pool with an underwater music system, a 2,500 square foot gym, six kitchens, and 24 bathrooms, and in 2009 its assessed value of about 147.5 million dollars produced roughly 1.063 million dollars in property taxes.
- In Style: Pacific Lodge, infobox architectural_style field: Pacific lodge
View the Source2. Bill Gates's house (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (2005)
Wikidata item Q371973, property P1619: 2005
Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Mansion)
Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement, repointed from lowercase 'mansion' to the atlas's existing casing 'Mansion'.
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Medina, United States
Wikidata item Q371973, property P131/P17 (location): Medina, United States
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