Versailles ($100 million)
Windermere, Florida
Versailles—a name the house was given by time-share mogul David Siegel after he visited the French palace—is billed as the largest single-family home in America. The 90,000-square-foot mansion on Lake Butler in Florida includes 13 bedrooms and 23 bathrooms; a 20-car garage; 11 kitchens (one of which has a hibachi grill that seats 12); two movies theaters; six pools; an indoor roller skating rink; a two-lane bowling alley; and a 7,200-square-foot grand hall. But wait—there’s more: 1.4 miles of lakeshore; a stadium-size tennis court; and a full-sized baseball diamond. “It would be perfect for a sheik with a harem. I mean, there are plenty of bedrooms for all of his wives’ children, too,” Lorraine Barrett, the home’s real-estate agent, told My Fox Orlando. “Or maybe I was thinking a rich Russian that likes to show off his money.
Well I haven't seen the inside, so I can't really judge, but I'd bet the comparison of this house to Versailles has Le Vau, Le Nôtre, and Le Brun turning over in their graves...!
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