The ornate Moorish-style property is the product of architects Marion Sims Wyeth and Joseph Urban’s genius. Marjorie Merriweather Post, a socialite (and heiress to the Postum Cereal Company) comissoned them to design the ocean-front property that was built between 1924 and 1927 – soon after she became American’s richest woman.
In 1973, she donated the 20-acre property to the U.S. government to be used as the ‘winter White House,’ considering its sunny zip code, which was surely welcome to those used to a notably colder DC. Following the Trump family’s restoration, it’s categorizable as one of the world’s best homes – comprising a 20,000-square-foot ballroom (with $7 million gold leaf features) and Spanish revival-style arches and mosaics throughout the residence.
