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Bill Gates' house is a large earth-sheltered mansion in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The house is noted for its design and the technology it incorporates. It is nicknamed Xanadu 2.0.[1]
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Property taxes and assessed value
The total assessed value of the property (land and house) is $147.5 million and the annual property tax for 2006 was $1 million. Seattle Weekly reports the 2008 tax of $1.06 million and the home's assessed value of $147.5 million.[2]
Details
The house is a modern design in the Pacific lodge style, with classic features such as a large private library with a dome shaped roof and oculus (light well).[3] The house also features an estate-wide server system running Windows, and heated floors and driveways. Guests wear pins that upon entrance of a room automatically adjust temperature, music, and lighting based on the guest's preferences.
Gates and his wife Melinda are very fond of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and they have inscribed in the library a sentence from the last page of the novel: "He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it."[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Bill Gates's stately pleasure dome and futuristic home". 11/23/97. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/971201/archive_008409_2.htm.
- ^ "Taxman Cometh". Seattle Weekly. http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/blogs/dailyweekly/2008/05/gates_taxman_cometh.php.
- ^ Pool building part of a U.S. News feature on the house [1]. Retrieved on October 4, 2007.
- ^ Paterson, Thane (June 13, 2000). "Advice for Bill Gates: A Little Culture Wouldn't Hurt". Business Week. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/june2000/nf00613b.htm. Retrieved on 2008-03-21.
External links
- Bill Gates' house is at coordinates 47°37′39″N 122°14′32″W / 47.627453°N 122.242354°WCoordinates: 47°37′39″N 122°14′32″W / 47.627453°N 122.242354°W
- Virtual tour of Bill Gates' house
- Video tour of Bill Gates' house
- Pictures from outside
- A paper cutout model of the house that you can build
- Tax info on the house from the King County GIS website
- Architect's Website
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