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01-13-2017, 06:07 AM
Jeff Bezos is living the billionaire dream and buying a museum to turn into his house
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From Graceland to the home of Mark Twain, old storied mansions are often transformed into museums. But when you're a billionaire tech exec, life can work the other way round.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently paid $23 million in cash for a 27,000-square foot property in Washington D.C. that just happens to be the city's former Textile Museum, according to a report from The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/01/12/jeff-bezos-is-the-a**nymous-buyer-of-the-biggest-house-in-washington/?postshare=1571484242622944&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.62f74c6eeddb).
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently paid $23 million in cash for a 27,000-square foot property in Washington D.C. that just happens to be the city's former Textile Museum, according to a report from The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/01/12/jeff-bezos-is-the-a**nymous-buyer-of-the-biggest-house-in-washington/?postshare=1571484242622944&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.62f74c6eeddb).
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He plans to turn the massive property — which includes two 4-story houses — into a single-family home. It's a nearly century-old assemblage of multiple buildings encompassing 10 bedrooms and 14 bathrooms across a 3/4-acre swatch of land that boasts rolling gardens of vibrant greenery. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/12/bezos-museum-house/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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