“Mar-a-Lago had 58 bedrooms, it had 33 bathrooms, it had a 9-hole golf course, it had an 1,800-square-foot living room, and it had a 75-foot tower. This was not a modest estate.” Eliot Kleinberg, a staff writer for The Palm Beach Post, said on a Curiosity Stream video. While the cypress wood used for Mar-a-Lago’s doors and beams was sourced locally and the ironwork was cast locally as well, three boatloads of fossil-bearing Doria limestone were imported from Genoa, Italy, to create arches, sculptures, and other features on the house, according to a 1972 Historic American Buildings Survey from the Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation.
Post acquired 36,000 15th-century Spanish tiles, some with Moorish design influence, for the estate, as well as about 20,000 roofing tiles, varying in color from black to salmon, to complement Mar-a-Lago’s pink stucco exterior. A set of 2,200 black and white marble floor blocks was brought in from a Cuban castle.
