All eyes Sunday night will be on the second presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in St. Louis. In anticipation of the pledges they’re sure to make about helping Americans move up the property ladder, we decided to take a look at their own housing situations.
HILLARY CLINTON'S HOMES:
Chappaqua home No. 1
The 11-room Dutch colonial home on Old House Lane in Chappaqua in Westchester County is the Clintons’ primary residence, which they paid $1.7 million for in 1999 as Bill Clinton neared the end of his presidential term. This is the home that Mrs. Clinton used as her base when she ran for the New York Senate. According to The New York Times, the two spend most of their downtime here.
Chappaqua home No. 2
The couple splashed out $1.16 million in August for the house next door—a three-bedroom, 3,631-square-foot ranch-style home set on 1.51 acres. They also scored a slight discount from the original $1.18 million listing price. A source told The New York Post that the new home could be used as a weekend retreat for Chelsea and her family. It could also be used to house staffers if she wins the election.
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Washington, D.C. home
This four-bedroom, six-bathroom Georgian-style house on Whitehaven Street near Embassy Row is reportedly worth an estimated $6.6 million, according to Zillow.com, much more than the $2.85 million the Clintons paid for it back in 2000. The 5,500-square-foot house in the posh Observatory Circle neighborhood is very much considered Mrs. Clinton's home and is where she wrote a large chunk of her second memoir "Hard Choices." "It is totally, entirely hers," a Clinton ally told The Hill. "All of the art, all of the colors, all of the design is all of her doing. She is entirely herself there."
Little Rock home
The couple bought this apartment on top of the Clinton library in 2004, three years after Mr. Clinton’s tenure as president ended and it is used as their base when they’re in Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr. Clinton served as the governor of Arkansas for 12 years. According to the New York Times, the apartment has a sprawling terrace overlooking the Arkansas River and the aptly named Clinton Presidential Park Bridge.
DONALD TRUMP HOMES:
Trump Tower penthouse
Donald Trump’s main residence is a three-story penthouse on the 66th floor of Trump Tower, also home to his business, on 725 Fifth Ave in Manhattan. He lives here with his third wife, Melania, and son Barron. The penthouse boasts impressive views over Central Park and is designed to look like the Palace of Versaille. Features include ceilings painted with scenes from the classical Greek myths and a gold and diamond door to greet visitors. Experts predict that it would sell for around $100 million. However, this is not his only Manhattan penthouse. He reportedly kept about 40 penthouses when he built Trump Parc at 106 Central Park South and Trump Park Avenue at 502 Park Ave. and rents them out.
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Seven Springs home
The Trump’s summer retreat in Bedford, N.Y., is certainly big enough to house the whole clan—grandchildren and all. The 60 room sprawling estate boasts 15 bedrooms, two servants wings, three swimming pools and 230 acres of land. Mr. Trump paid $7.5 million for it back in 1996 with the intention of building a golf course, but later abandoned those plans after local opposition. He has had better luck turning other former homes into commercial ventures including Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, now a private club.
CHILDHOOD HOMES
Hillary Clinton’s Illinois brick house
Mrs. Clinton was born in Chicago, but moved to Park Ridge, Illinois, at the age of three where she lived in a two-story brick house on North Wisner Street in the upper-middle-class neighborhood. Her parents lived there until the 1980s.
Donald Trump’s 6-bedroom home in Queens, N.Y.
Donald Trump’s childhood home is a six-bedroom brick-and-stucco property in Jamaica Estates, an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Queens. The house, built in 1940, has an eat-in-kitchen with sliding doors to a sunroom, a fully finished basement, a patio and an outdoor summer kitchen. While it is listed on the Republican presidential candidate’s birth certificate, it’s unclear how long he lived there before his family moved to a nearby house. The home is up for auction on October 19.
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