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This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes. [1]
Before construction, the value of the plot and unbuilt house were estimated to be more than US$1.2 billion. [6] [unreliable source] During planning, the house was expected to be the world's largest and most expensive home, with a cost of about US$2 billion. [33] In 2014, it was considered the world's most expensive private residence. [2]
Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina, United States.The main residence, Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 [2] and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m 2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft ...
The One. Location: Los Angeles Built: 2014 to 2021 Architect: Paul McClean Square footage: 105,000 square feet Floating above the city, this Bel-Air mansion—which took its original owner, movie ...
In a pilot project launched about two years ago, Texas-based TPG—listed as the world’s sixth largest private-equity firm by Private Equity International—has purchased homes in Florida ...
Pensmore is a 72,000 square feet (6,700 m 2) home in the Ozark Mountains near Highlandville, Missouri.One of the largest homes in the United States, it has five stories, contains 14 baths, 13 bedrooms; has exterior walls 12 inches thick, and was designed to survive earthquakes, tornadoes, and bomb blasts.
Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack ...
The family used their extraordinary wealth, considered the largest private fortune in the world, [5] [6] [7] to acquire businesses in a diverse range of fields, including financial services, real estate, mining, energy, agriculture, winemaking.