Bill Gates designed and owns a mansion that is on Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.
Design The house was designed collaboratively by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and Cutler-Anderson Architects of Bainbridge Island, Washington. 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."Technology: Bill Gates' House" . U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved July 24, 2012."Pool Building" . U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved July 24, 2012. The house features an estate-wide server system, a swimming pool with an underwater music system, a gym, and a dining room. There are six kitchens and 24 bathrooms, ten of which contain bathtubs.
In popular culture 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. Some 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.
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Tax info on the house from the King County GIS website