In the eight years since, the private club has become the 47th president’s unofficial political hub and has hosted international dignitaries including Japanese prime minister Shinzō Abe, Chinese president Xi Jinping, and Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. It’s also been the site of controversies, ranging from a lawsuit involving a gigantic American flag to the storage of presidential records.
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.
