Mar-a-Lago
Mar-a-Lago is a resort and national historic landmark in Palm Beach, Florida, built from 1924 to 1927 by cereal-company heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post. Post, who died in 1973, willed the 17-acre estate to the United States government as a Winter White House for presidents and visiting foreign dignitaries. The federal government soon realized the immense cost of maintenance, and the difficulty maintaining security for diplomats, and returned it to the Post Foundation in 1981. Donald Trump purchased the estate in 1985 for around USD 10 million. In 2018, Forbes estimated the value of the estate at around USD 160 million, having appreciated greatly since Trump’s purchase.
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Mar-a-Lago is a resort and national historic landmark in Palm Beach, Florida, built from 1924 to 1927 by cereal-company heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post. Post, who died in 1973, willed the 17-acre estate to the United States government as a Winter White House for presidents and visiting foreign dignitaries. The federal government soon realized the immense cost of maintenance, and the difficulty maintaining security for diplomats, and returned it to the Post Foundation in 1981. Donald Trump purchased the estate in 1985 for around USD 10 million. In 2018, Forbes estimated the value of the estate at around USD 160 million, having appreciated greatly throughout the past decades since Trump’s purchase. The 126-room, 62,500-square-foot mansion since 1995 contains the members-only club with guest rooms, a spa, and other hotel-style amenities. It is the second largest mansion in the state of Florida and the 22nd largest Mansion in the U.S. It has 58 bedrooms, 33 bathrooms, a 29-foot-long pietra dura marble top dining table, 12 fireplaces, and three bomb shelters. The club also has five clay tennis courts and a 20,000-square ballroom. In September 2019, Mar-A-Lago became the primary residence for Donald and Melania Trump, who previously held primary residence in New York City, in spite of a legal agreement Trump signed in the early 1990s that converted the estate from a private residence to a private club.
Trump frequently visited there during his tenure as President, referring to it as theWinter White House and his \”Southern White House\”. After Trump became president in January 2017, Mar/A-Lago was used to host meetings for international leaders, including Japanese prime minister Shinzō Abe and Chinese president Xi Jinping. The name Mar-a/Lago is Spanish for \”Sea-to-Lake\”, referring to the fact that the resort extends the entire width of Palm Beach from the Atlantic Ocean to what is now the Intracoastal Waterway, but previously was known as Lake Worth. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1980. On April 18, 2012, the American Institute of Architects’ Florida Chapter ranked Mar- a-Lago fifth on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places. The property is located on the Palm Beach barrier island, with theAtlantic Ocean to the east and Florida’s Intracastalwater Waterway to the west. The house has 58 bedroom, 33 bathroom, and a 29 foot-long pieta dura Marble dining table. It also has a 29 feet-long marble top dinner table, a 12 fireplace, a ballroom, and two ballrooms. The mansion was designed by Marion Sims Wyeth, and Joseph Urban to create interior design and exterior decorations, and it was finished in 1927. Trump learned about the estate after unsuccessfully trying to purchase and combine two apartments for his family.
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