What Will Happen to Jeff Bezos' Massive Home in Washington, D.C.?
Update 4/4/2019:
Today, Jeff Bezos announced that his marriage had officially been dissolved, leading to speculation about how Jeff and his now ex-wife, MacKenzie, divided their sizable assets. One of the properties at stake is the Washington, D.C. mansion Jeff purchased in 2016, which has been under renovation for some time.
Both Jeff and MacKenzie posted statements on Twitter to confirm the end of their marriage. MacKenzie's included some insight into how the couple divided their assets: "Happy to be giving him all of my interests in the Washington Post and Blue Origin, and 75% of our Amazon stock plus voting control of my shares to support his continued contributions with the teams of these incredible companies," MacKenzie wrote. "Excited about my own plans."
- MacKenzie Bezos (@mackenziebezos) April 4, 2019
While it's clear that MacKenzie is no longer involved with the Washington Post, the question of what will happen to their Washington D.C. home remains. The mansion is one of many massive properties owned by Bezos: he also has a 5.3 acre property in Medina, Washington, another home in Beverly Hills, California, a 30,000-acre ranch in Texas, and apartments in New York.
The Washington, D.C. home was recently making headlines when Amazon planned to split its second headquarters between Crystal City, Virginia and Long Island City, New York Those plans were canceled in February, and now the second headquarters for the internet giant will only be located in Crystal City.
In light of the news, attention is once again cast on Bezos's home, which he is reportedly renovating. Below, what we know about those renovations.
Original 04/24/2018:
In 2016, Jeff Bezos paid $23 million for a 27,000-square-foot mansion in Washington, D.C., and the blueprints for a major renovation the billionaire Amazon founder and owner of the Washington Post is undertaking have just been revealed.
The former Textile Museum, located in the hot neighborhood of Kalorama (the Obamas and Jared and Ivanka Kushner are residents), is undergoing a $12 million and expansion that began last year, Washingtonian reports.
The plans for Jeff Bezos’s DC renovation include:
• 11 bedrooms
• 25 bathrooms
• 5 living rooms
• 2 elevators
• An extremely fabulous solarium.https://t.co/RF81zZzVYM- Washingtonian (@washingtonian) April 23, 2018
The magazine got its hands on blueprints for the renovations through a public-records request, and they show that the project includes 25 bathrooms, 11 bedrooms, five living rooms, two kitchens, two libraries, two workouts, two elevators, and a ballroom.
Bezos, who continues to use Seattle as his home base, is combining what are now two separate properties that date to the early 1900s into an East Coast pied-à-terre for his family.
When it was on the market, the listing marketed the property at 2320-2330 S Street NW as a 10-bedroom house with eight full bathrooms and six partial bathrooms. One of the houses was built in 1912 by Jefferson Memorial architect John Russell Pope, and the adjacent home was designed by Waddy Butler Wood. They are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Barnes Vanze architecture firm is overseeing the renovation, and Washingtonian says that, according to the documents, the Pope house "will serve primarily as the family’s residence, with all the essentials for a tech-titan billionaire." There's a whiskey cellar and and a wine room, along with an exercise room, TV room, and family kitchenette upstairs.
The larger house designed by Wood holds the 1,500-square-foot ballroom, with "floor-to-ceiling Ionic fluted columns, a limestone fireplace, and a balconied promenade with iron guardrails that overlooks the space from the second floor."
Bezos, the richest man in the world, is reportedly planning to use the home to host what we expect will be some very swanky affairs.
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