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Bill Gates designed and owns a mansion that is on Lake Washington in Medina, Washington.The 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m 2) mansion [1] incorporates technology in its design. [specify] [2] In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.
It took Gates seven years and $63 million to build his Medina, Washington, estate, named "Xanadu 2.0" after the fictional home of Charles Foster Kane, the title character of "Citizen Kane."
Gates' real estate holdings include a $130 million Washington mansion, Florida horse ranches, and a new California oceanfront purchase.
Gates bought the Xanadu land in 1988 for just $2 million—but proceeded to pour about $63 million into the property—and now the entire estate is worth about $130 million. It has 24 bathrooms ...
Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family had done, and on December 9, 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates and investor Warren Buffett each signed a commitment they called the "Giving Pledge", which is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth, over the course of time, to charity.
The estate is enclosed by an iron fence that is entered through a gateway with a giant letter "K" above it. Central to the estate is Xanadu proper, the castle-like mansion that served as Kane's home and repository for his enormous collection of antiquities and objets d'art. Xanadu has a butler and at least a few dozen footmen and maidservants ...
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Gates House may refer to: J. M. Gates House, Kingman Arizona, NRHP-listed; Neil H. Gates House, Phoenix, Arizona, NRHP-listed; Gates House (Denver, Colorado), a Denver Landmark; Judge Louis Gates House, Kansas City, Kansas, NRHP-listed; Gates House (Machiasport, Maine), listed on the National Register of Historic Places