Former U.S. president, businessman, and television personality Donald Trump currently has seven residences.
Trump was born in Queens, NY, he lived on campus in his later teenage years; he later rented row houses in college. In 1971, Trump moved to a studio on 75th Street in Manhattan.[1] Since the completion of Trump Tower in 1983, Trump had lived in a three-level penthouse on the top floors. He purchased the Seven Springs mansion in Bedford, New York, in 1995.
Upon Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency, he moved into the White House in Washington, D.C. From his birth in 1946 until 2019, Trump listed his primary state of residence as New York; in September 2019, he moved his primary residence to Mar-a-Lago in Florida. On January 20, 2021, Trump moved out of the White House after losing the 2020 election the inauguration of Joe Biden.
Current residences
Mar-a-Lago
Main article: Mar-a-Lago
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Since September 2019, Trump’s resort and residence Mar-a-Lago has served as the primary residence for Donald and Melania Trump. The legality of this has been disputed because, in 1993, Trump signed a “use agreement” with the Town of Palm Beach, Florida that changed Mar-a-Lago’s designation from a single-family residence to a private club. The agreement specified that guests, including Trump, could not stay there for more than three non-consecutive weeks per year.
Trump Tower penthouse
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Main article: Trump Tower penthouse of Donald Trump
The three-story penthouse at Trump Tower was Trump’s primary residence from November 1983 until September 2019, when he designated Mar-a-Lago as his primary residence. In 2017, Forbes magazine estimated the 11,000 sq.ft. penthouse to be worth $64 million. The interior was originally designed by Angelo Donghia with black lacquered walls, brass, and mahogany but was later redesigned in Louis XIV-era style (in homage to Adnan Khashoggi) with gold-trimmed furniture, marble floors, columns, tables, and walls, frescoed ceilings, bronze statues, and crystal chandeliers.
Trump National Golf Club Bedminster
Main article: Trump National Golf Club Bedminster
A villa on the premises is reserved for Trump’s exclusive use, and a 500-square-foot, two-story balcony and porch were added to it in 2017. In 2017, the place was designated as Trump’s third presidential residence.
Seven Springs
Trump owns a 28,322-square-foot (2,631.2 m2) mansion on 200 acres (81 ha) in Bedford and New Castle, New York. The mansion has sixty rooms, including thirteen bedrooms, twelve baths, and an indoor pool of white marble. There are two other pools on the grounds, as well as a glass and stone orangery for growing citrus, with a bowling alley in its basement. The grounds are accented with a formal garden pavilion, a fountain in the front lawn, a greenhouse and root cellar, and a stone water tower. The property also contains a Tudor Revival house known as “Nonesuch”, formerly owned by the Heinz family.
The mansion was built in 1919 of sandstone from the property to a design by architect Charles A. Platt as a summer home for financier Eugene Meyer and his family. Meyer spent $2 million on the construction. Meyer died in 1959, and, after his wife’s death in 1970, the family foundation gave 247 acres (100 ha) of land to The Nature Conservancy and the rest of the property first to Yale University and then to Rockefeller University, which used it as a conference center. Trump purchased the property in 1995 for $7.5 million. The mansion was in need of renovation, but Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. spent summers and weekends at the property, living in one of the carriage houses. Trump’s tax records showed he classified the estate as an investment property which enables property taxes to be written off.
Development plans
Trump originally planned to build a golf course on the property, but was opposed by the governments of the three municipalities the property lies within, and he wanted to avoid competing with his existing course nearby in Briarcliff Manor. He later explored renovating the two houses and redeveloping the rest of the property. He initially proposed to build 46 single-family houses which were also opposed by the communities. He then proposed to build 15 mansions he intended to sell for $25 million each; he abandoned this project after years of litigation.
Conservation easement, tax deductions
In 2015, Trump granted a conservation easement to a conservation land trust and claimed a $21.1 million tax deduction. In 2020, the New York Times reported that Trump had classified the estate as an investment property in 2014 for tax purposes, allowing him to take a $2.2 million property tax deduction for which he would have been ineligible if the mansion was used as a personal residence.
In 2021 the estate continues to be the subject of two New York state investigations regarding the possible manipulation of the property’s value for tax purposes.