Bill Gates' house as seen from Lake Washington.

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. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 693 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Home of Bill Gates on Lake Washington. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 693 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Home of Bill Gates on Lake Washington. ... For other persons named Bill Gates, see Bill Gates (disambiguation). ... Earth covered farm houses in Keldur, Iceland. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Lake Washington is the second largest natural lake in Washington State, USA, after Lake Chelan, and the largest lake in King County. ... Medina is a city located in King County, Washington, on the eastern shore of Lake Washington opposite Seattle. ...

General

The house is a modern design in the Pacific lodge style, with classic features such as a large private library and a big dome-shaped room. The house occupies 50,000 square feet (4,600 m²) on a 5.15 acre (2.1 ha) lot. Garage space and outbuildings may occupy an additional 16,000 square feet (1,500 m²). Property records indicate eight bedrooms, 25 baths, and four building levels. According to King County public records, as of 2005, the total assessed value of the property (land and house) is $136,617,000 and the annual property tax for 2006 is $1,012,321.^[1] The address of the mansion is 1835 73rd Ave NE, Medina, WA 98039. This article is about the unit of measurement. ... A hectare (symbol ha) is a unit of area, equal to 10 000 square metres, commonly used for measuring land area. ... For the capital city of the United States, see Washington, D.C.. For other uses, see Washington (disambiguation). ... Property tax, millage tax is an ad valorem tax that an owner of real estate or other property pays on the value of the property being taxed. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The lot was purchased in December 1988 for $2 million, and construction occurred over a period of seven and a half years with nominal completion in 1995.^[2] The house is located on the east end of the lot, which is located on a hill.

Gates often entertains the rich and powerful at his home. Once, when Bill Gates had a private party for the National Governors Association at the house, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a "temporary security zone" around Gates' Lake Washington home which locked down all of Lake Washington south of the Highway 520 bridge and stayed in effect for two days.^[3] The National Governors Association (NGA) is an organization of the governors of the fifty U.S. states and five U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). ... The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a Cabinet department of the federal government of the United States that is concerned with protecting the American homeland and the safety of American citizens. ...

Features

• A 17 × 60 foot (5.1 × 18.2 meter) swimming pool.
• An underwater music system and a fossil-motif floor. There is also a glass wall which can be divided.
• A locker room off the pool has four showers and two baths.^[4]

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Construction

• The number of building permits needed completely overwhelmed the Medina city clerk's office, necessitating the move to a new Linux-based computer infrastructure to deal with the volume.^[5]
• The house was designed by James Cutler of James Cutler Architects and the architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.^[6]

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See also

• Bill Gates
• Microsoft
• Domotics

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External links

• Bill Gates' house is at coordinates 47°37′39″N 122°14′33″W / 47.627453, -122.242354 (Bill Gates' house)Coordinates: 47°37′39″N 122°14′33″W / 47.627453, -122.242354 (Bill Gates' house)
• 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