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Mark Zuckerberg is the proud owner of a $23 million mansion in a nook of northwest Washington, D.C., directly across from the vice-presidential compound and a breezy 12-minute drive to the White House. It’s the third-most-expensive sale in D.C. history.
Politico broke the real-estate news by chatting with nosy neighbors and tracking data on the Meta CEO’s private jet. A spokesperson told the reporter that the move will let Zuckerberg “spend more time there as Meta continues the work on policy issues related to American technology leadership.” He’s also been spending time there, per the New York Times, lobbying Trump about Meta’s upcoming antitrust trial. This will save him commute time.
The 15,000-square-foot home, designed by architect Robert Gurney, has gotten all kinds of press for its design, with one trade publication celebrating its “gabled-roof forms, tall chimneys, and steel windows” for evoking “a traditional language” while its “crisp detailing” brings “a sense of modernity to the project.” A brick façade and peaked roofs hide glassy, modern interiors — traces of which are scattered all over the internet even as the address has already been blurred on Google Maps.
The house was built for owners who were “big entertainers and fundraisers,” according to Washingtonian, which reported that Gurney was trying to solve the problem of how to “make a sprawling, estate-size house feel cozy.” The solution was three separate houses, actually — each taking a nod from the typical exteriors in the area (brick, peaked roof, pane windows) but connected by glass walkways.
The Zuckerbergs seem to have a thing for gated compounds. They have been building seven homes on prime Lake Tahoe waterfront; in Palo Alto, they’ve been buying up the neighbors and now own five home estates. And on Kauai, they own a $100 million estate with an underground bunker. Internet sleuths have so far failed to find any old listing photos or a floor plan, but we can say with confidence that it’s very large and that the HVAC system is geothermal — ideal for offsetting those private-jet miles.