The Biggest Home in Each State That Will Stun You

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• Calhoun Mansion, South Carolina
• Meadow Brook Hall
• Woodlea, Briarcliff Manor, New York
• The main house includes 35 bedrooms, 43 bathrooms, and 65 fireplaces.
• The home also boasts a variety of amenities. Below is an emptied swimming pool.
• It was constructed in 1889 by George Vanderbilt, a prominent businessman from the late 19th and early 20th century.
• Ramsey Mansion, Mississippi

Pop star Michael Jackson was even rumored to have rented-out the home at one time. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Italian Renaissance-style Villa Philbrook was designed by American architect Edward Buehler Delk. The home was built in 1927 for Waite Phillips, an American petroleum businessman who created a fully integrated operation that combined petroleum producing, refining, and marketing. Currently owned by the city of Tulsa, Villa Pennbrook is now the Philbrook Museum of Art. Huntington’s then $50 million art collection was opened to the public in 1928.

Located on 16 acres with access of miles of horse trails, it features two horse rings and five stables fully decked out. The aim home is a 20,000 foot beauty featuring 11 bedrooms, 17 full baths, formal entry area, den, atrium, home theater, living room, gym, maids quarters, sauna and tack room. It also sports a bar and intercom with one fireplace in the family room, a breakfast room, additional breakfast area, dining area and a swimming pool. This lovely and spacious estate was once owned by Eddy Murphy and previously by Cher. Located in Millbrook, N.Y., Migdale Castle was constructed in 1927 for the daughter of Andrew Carnegie, and then purchased by its current owners and renovated in 2000, according to its Zillow listing.

Calhoun Mansion, South Carolina

Inside A $33,000,000 Triplex New York PenthouseToday Architectural Digest brings you to Manhattan's Upper East Side for an all-access tour of the triplex penthouse at 180 E88th Street, currently on the market for $33,000,000. A follow-on TV series The Queen of Versailles Reigns Again follows the house and Siegel family on the Discovery+ streaming service. The home sits on almost 55 acres and includes two master suites and kitchens. Many of these homes have been on the market for years, as luxury homes have become hard to sell.

Institutional buyers began purchasing homes shortly after the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, when hundreds of thousands of houses across the country could be purchased on the cheap. More recently, the pandemic and the rise of remote work compelled more Americans to rent and buy single-family homes, moving farther afield from traditional urban job centers in search of more room, outdoor space, and privacy. Another Vanderbilt mansion, Woodlea, was designed by American architect Stanford White and completed in 1895. This Georgian Revival mansion, located in Briarcliff Manor, New York, was built for Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard, an American heiress and the eldest daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt. This former Vanderbilt country estate is now the Sleepy Hollow Country Club. The Andrew Carnegie Mansion–located in New York, New York–was built by Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish-American industrialist who led the expansion of the U.S. steel industry, who lived there up until his death in 1919.

Meadow Brook Hall

The castle became part of the Arcadia University campus in 1929, and its once-regal bedrooms are now used as student housing! The castle is rumored to have been built without a single nail and there are several stories of it being haunted. Located in Asheville, North Carolina, the Biltmore House is the largest house in the United States.

It is one of the most uniquely designed palaces in the world and its style is known as American Florentine. This 43-room, 35,000-square-foot house in Ellison Bay, Wisconsin was sold in 2016 for $2.7 million, slightly down for the price of $20 million paid for it in 2005. It features a movie theater, along with a 5,000-square-foot master bedroom.

Woodlea, Briarcliff Manor, New York

Asherwood, a lavish Chateauesque estate, was rebuilt in 1999 by Melvin Simon–the late American businessman and film producer who co-founded the Simon Property Group and co-owned the NBA’s Indiana Pacers with brother Herb Simon. The seven-bedroom house is currently owned by Simon’s wife, Bren Simon, and sits on 160 acres and includes two swimming pools, tennis courts, and a private 18-hole golf course. From the smallest studio apartments to the largest mansions and castles, the United States is richly filled from coast to coast with both humble and extravagant abodes. Across this great country of ours, huge houses, unique million-dollar mansions, and grand castles are nestled in hills, spread across beaches, and sitting right in the heart of bustling cities.

While not the biggest house in the world, no lavishness was spared during the construction of 100 of the biggest houses in the U.S. The massiveness of these mansions is based on the square footage of the main house . Bloomfield Place in Lexington, Kentucky comes in at 24,252 square feet on 11 acres. The construction took place from 1997 to 2000 and used Indiana limestone to construct the five-bedroom, five half-baths, five full-baths, a 900-square foot kitchen, a home theater and much more. The 95-acre Hala Ranch in Colorado boasts 56,000 square feet and 15 bedrooms in the main house, overlooking the Rocky Mountains.

The main house includes 35 bedrooms, 43 bathrooms, and 65 fireplaces.

The One, located in Bel Air, is considered the culmination of ultra-deluxe real estate developer Nile Niami's life's work. The large masonry building, which was featured heavily in the movie Annie, was one of the last of its kind to be built before the Great Depression and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985 for its architecture. The architects were instructed to build "a house on the order of an English country gentleman...a thoroughly comfortable house, without the stiffness of the modern city house."

The Nottoway Plantation was originally built by slaves and was designed by popular New Orleans architect Henry Howard. The 64-room home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and has since been restored and is open for guided tours while also serving as an inn and restaurant. Hempstead House, also known as the Gould-Guggenheim Estate, is a large estate located in Sands Point, New York.

There are 31 rooms and a 10,600-square-foot finished basement, plus a resort-style swimming pool. Morrow Mansion in Salem, Oregon spans 21,000 square feet on nearly ten acres. There’s even a 1,600-square-foot party room with a bar and a dance floor.

The 8,150-square foot home owned by former beer distributor Stephen Levin is filled with American folk art. On its own private promontory on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee, Longview Estate’s combined 63,000 square feet make it the Granite State’s largest. Houston doctor Ulysses W. Watkins started building two mansions in Manvel, Texas, outside of Houston, but one was never completed. The house has changed hands a few times but is still a work in progress. The 20,000-square foot home and 13-acre lot sold for $1.84 million in June 2020, according to Zillow.

It was constructed in 1889 by George Vanderbilt, a prominent businessman from the late 19th and early 20th century.

Every quarter, Moody’s Analytics assesses whether local fundamentals, including local income levels, can support local house prices. Thesefrothy markets include places like Boise("overvalued" by 74%) and Austin ("overvalued" by 61%). The recreational perks include a swimming pool, PGA-standard golf area, regulation tennis court, half-basketball court, fitness center, and spa. A 2016 survey produced by Live and Invest Overseas outlined the top 17 cities in which to purchase real estate based on a configuration for a second home abroad or a retirement resident, as well as a rental property in most markets. Thats the main draw of the Vatuvara Isles, as youll essentially be buying not just an 5,187-acre plot of land but a set of luxury hotel villas as well. These are all located on the shore of Kaibu Islandin total, youll get four islands with purchase, so there are three others that are for the most part much less developed.

Designed by American architect Richard Morris Hunt, the extravagant 250-room mansion was completed in 1895 for George Washington Vanderbilt II, an art collector and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family. Still owned by one of Vanderbilt’s descendants, William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil, the Biltmore House is one of the most prominent remaining examples of the Gilded Age. The Georgian Revival mansion, located in Florham Park, New Jersey, is currently owned by Fairleigh Dickinson University, the state’s largest institution of private education. Anderson House, also known as Larz Anderson House, is located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. And currently houses the Society of the Cincinnati’s national headquarters and a research library.