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[[Bill Gates]] designed and owns a [[mansion]] that overlooksis in [[Lake Washington]] in [[Medina, Washington|Medina]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]. The {{convert|66000|sqft|adj=on}} mansion<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kirsch |first=Noah |title=Here Are The Properties At Stake In The Gates Divorce |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2021/05/05/here-are-the-properties-at-stake-in-the-gates-divorce/ |access-date=2022-09-26 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref> incorporates technology in its design.{{ClarifySpecify|date=May 2021}}<ref>{{cite web | title=Bill Gates' stately pleasure dome and futuristic home | date=November 23, 1997 | url=https://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/971201/archive_008409_2.htm | author=Folkers, Richard | access-date=August 24, 2017 | archive-date=September 17, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917213311/https://money.usnews.com/money/business-economy/articles/1997/11/23/xanadu-20 | url-status=live }}</ref> In 2009, [[property tax]]es were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/blogs/dailyweekly/2008/05/gates_taxman_cometh.php|title=Taxman Cometh|publisher=Seattle Weekly|date=May 16, 2008|author=Anderson, Rick|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130417180124/http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/blogs/dailyweekly/2008/05/gates_taxman_cometh.php|archive-date=April 17, 2013}}</ref>

The house was designed collaboratively by [[Bohlin Cywinski Jackson]] and Cutler-Anderson Architects of [[Bainbridge Island, Washington|Bainbridge Island]], Washington.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bcj.com/public/projects/project/12.html |title=Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.com |access-date=February 21, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928023214/http://www.bcj.com/public/projects/project/12.html |archive-date=September 28, 2007 }}</ref><ref name="Cutler Anderson">{{cite web |url=http://cutler-anderson.com/ |title=Cutler Anderson Architects |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=cutler-anderson.com |access-date=August 10, 2016 |archive-date=April 28, 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010428041406/http://www.cutler-anderson.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | last=Becraft | first=Michael B. | title=Bill Gates: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) | page=130 | publisher=Greenwood | year=2014 | isbn=978-1440830136 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=klV_BAAAQBAJ&q=bill+gates+house++Bohlin+Cywinski+Jackson+Cutler-Anderson+Architects&pg=PA130 | access-date=2019-10-01 | archive-date=2020-09-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917213254/https://books.google.com/books?id=klV_BAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA130&dq=bill+gates+house++Bohlin+Cywinski+Jackson+Cutler-Anderson+Architects&pg=PA130&hl=en#v=onepage&q=bill%20gates%20house%20%20Bohlin%20Cywinski%20Jackson%20Cutler-Anderson%20Architects&f=false | url-status=live }}</ref> The mansion is a modern design in the [[Pacific lodge]] style, with classic features such as a private library with a dome-shaped roof and [[Oculus (architecture)|oculus]].<ref>[https://www.usnews.com/usnews/tech/billgate/gates.htm "Technology: Bill Gates' House"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060104084936/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/tech/billgate/gates.htm |date=January 4, 2006 }}. ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]''. Retrieved July 24, 2012.</ref><ref>[https://www.usnews.com/usnews/tech/billgate/room1a.htm "Pool Building"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011001511/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/tech/billgate/room1a.htm |date=October 11, 2007 }}. ''U.S. News & World Report''. Retrieved July 24, 2012.</ref> The house features an estate-wide server system, a {{convert|60|ft|adj=on}} swimming pool with an underwater music system, a {{convert|2500|sqft|adj=on}} gym, and a {{convert|1000|sqft|adj=on}} dining room.<ref>{{cite web |title=Photo Gallery: Homes Of The Billionaires |url=https://www.forbes.com/2009/03/11/billionaire-homes-expensive-billionaires-2009-lifestyle-real-estate-homes.html#7891dd1a3c43 |website=[[Forbes]] |access-date=September 17, 2020 |date=March 11, 2009 |archive-date=September 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917213254/https://www.forbes.com/2009/03/11/billionaire-homes-expensive-billionaires-2009-lifestyle-real-estate-homes.html#7891dd1a3c43 |url-status=live }}</ref> There are six kitchens and 24 bathrooms, ten of which contain bathtubs.<ref>https://www.arch2o.com/tour-inside-bill-gates-house/#:~:text=There%20are%206%20kitchens%20in,10%20of%20which%20contain%20bathtubs. {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>▼

In 2009, [[property tax]]es were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/blogs/dailyweekly/2008/05/gates_taxman_cometh.php|title=Taxman Cometh|publisher=Seattle Weekly|date=May 16, 2008|author=Anderson, Rick|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130417180124/http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/blogs/dailyweekly/2008/05/gates_taxman_cometh.php|archive-date=April 17, 2013}}</ref>

The house was made fun of in ''[[Dilbert]]'' in January 1997 when the lead character was forced to become a towel boy after his failure to read an [[end-user license agreement]] over purchased [[Microsoft]] software.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tuesday January 14, 1997 |url=https://dilbert.com/strip/1997-01-14 |website=[[Dilbert]] |accessurl-datestatus=September 17, 2020 |archive-date=September 17, 2020dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917213254/https://dilbert.com/strip/1997-01-14 |urlarchive-statusdate=liveSeptember 17, 2020 |access-date=September 17, 2020 |website=[[Dilbert]]}}</ref>▼

==Design and features==

Some online news articles call the house [[Xanadu (Citizen Kane)|Xanadu 2.0]], a reference to the motion picture ''[[Citizen Kane]],'' which was itself a reference to the opening lines of [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]'s classic poem ''[[Kubla Khan|]]''Kubla Khan'']].<ref>{{cite web |title=19 crazy facts about Bill Gates' $127 million mansion|website=[[Business Insider]]|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/crazy-facts-about-bill-gates-house-2016-11#its-worth-at-least-127-million-today-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Home feature: Bill Gates' mansion|url=https://www.propertyguru.com.sg/lifestyle/article/4/home-feature-bill-gates-mansion}}</ref>▼

▲The house was designed collaboratively by [[Bohlin Cywinski Jackson]] and Cutler-Anderson Architects of [[Bainbridge Island, Washington|Bainbridge Island]], Washington.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bcj.com/public/projects/project/12.html |title=Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.com |access-date=February 21, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928023214/http://www.bcj.com/public/projects/project/12.html |archive-date=September 28, 2007 }}</ref><ref name="Cutler Anderson">{{cite web |url=http://cutler-anderson.com/ |title=Cutler Anderson Architects |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=cutler-anderson.com |access-date=August 10, 2016 |archive-date=April 28, 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010428041406/http://www.cutler-anderson.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | last=Becraft | first=Michael B. | title=Bill Gates: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) | page=130 | publisher=Greenwood | year=2014 | isbn=978-1440830136 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=klV_BAAAQBAJ&q=bill+gates+house++Bohlin+Cywinski+Jackson+Cutler-Anderson+Architects&pg=PA130 | access-date=2019-10-01 | archive-date=2020-09-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917213254/https://books.google.com/books?id=klV_BAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA130&dq=bill+gates+house++Bohlin+Cywinski+Jackson+Cutler-Anderson+Architects&pg=PA130&hl=en#v=onepage&q=bill%20gates%20house%20%20Bohlin%20Cywinski%20Jackson%20Cutler-Anderson%20Architects&f=false | url-status=live }}</ref>

The mansion is a modern design in the [[Pacific lodge]] style, with classic features such as a private library with a dome-shaped roof and [[Oculus (architecture)|oculus]].<ref>[https://www.usnews.com/usnews/tech/billgate/gates.htm "Technology: Bill Gates' House"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060104084936/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/tech/billgate/gates.htm |date=January 4, 2006 }}. ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]''. Retrieved July 24, 2012.</ref><ref>[https://www.usnews.com/usnews/tech/billgate/room1a.htm "Pool Building"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011001511/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/tech/billgate/room1a.htm |date=October 11, 2007 }}. ''U.S. News & World Report''. Retrieved July 24, 2012.</ref> The house features an estate-wide server system, a {{convert|60|ft|adj=on}} swimming pool with an underwater music system, a {{convert|2500|sqft|adj=on}} gym, and a {{convert|1000|sqft|adj=on}} dining room.<ref>{{cite web |title=Photo Gallery: Homes Of The Billionaires |url=https://www.forbes.com/2009/03/11/billionaire-homes-expensive-billionaires-2009-lifestyle-real-estate-homes.html#7891dd1a3c43 |website=[[Forbes]] |access-date=September 17, 2020 |date=March 11, 2009 |archive-date=September 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917213254/https://www.forbes.com/2009/03/11/billionaire-homes-expensive-billionaires-2009-lifestyle-real-estate-homes.html#7891dd1a3c43 |url-status=live }}</ref>

== In popular culture ==

[[File:Bill Gates House 2015.JPG|thumb|The house in 2015. Many trees block much of the house from view from [[Lake Washington]].]]

▲The house was made fun of in ''[[Dilbert]]'' in January 1997 when the lead character was forced to become a towel boy after his failure to read an [[end-user license agreement]] over purchased [[Microsoft]] software.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tuesday January 14, 1997 |url=https://dilbert.com/strip/1997-01-14 |website=[[Dilbert]] |access-date=September 17, 2020 |archive-date=September 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917213254/https://dilbert.com/strip/1997-01-14 |url-status=live }}</ref>

▲Some online news articles call the house Xanadu 2.0, a reference to the motion picture ''[[Citizen Kane]],'' which was itself a reference to the opening lines of [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]'s classic poem [[Kubla Khan|''Kubla Khan'']].<ref>{{cite web |title=19 crazy facts about Bill Gates' $127 million mansion|website=[[Business Insider]]|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/crazy-facts-about-bill-gates-house-2016-11#its-worth-at-least-127-million-today-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Home feature: Bill Gates' mansion|url=https://www.propertyguru.com.sg/lifestyle/article/4/home-feature-bill-gates-mansion}}</ref>

==References==

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