[3][2] The legality of this has been disputed because, in 1993, Trump signed a "use agreement" with the Town of Palm Beach, Florida, that changed Mar-a-Lago's designation from a single-family residence to a private club.
[8] The interior was originally designed by Angelo Donghia with black lacquered walls, brass, and mahogany but was later redesigned in Louis XIV-era style (in homage to Adnan Khashoggi) with gold-trimmed furniture, marble floors, columns, tables, and walls, frescoed ceilings, bronze statues, and crystal chandeliers.
The mansion has sixty rooms, including thirteen bedrooms, twelve baths, and an indoor pool of white marble.
The grounds are accented with a formal garden pavilion, a fountain in the front lawn, a greenhouse and root cellar, and a stone water tower.
[13][12] The mansion was built in 1919 of sandstone from the property to a design by architect Charles A. Platt as a summer home for financier Eugene Meyer and his family.
[1] The penthouse, which was owned by Trump and where his daughter Ivanka and her family lived from 2011 until January 2017, was sold to Chinese-American businesswoman Angela Chen for $15.9 million in February 2017.
[24] Trump lived with his family at 85-15 Wareham Place in Jamaica Estates, an affluent neighborhood in Queens, New York City until he was four years old.
[29][30][31] In 1950, the family moved to a larger house, also built by Fred Trump, at 85-14 Midland Parkway[32] on the other side of the same block;[33][34][26] the 23-room mansion occupied two adjoining lots directly behind the backyard of 85-15 Wareham Place.
[27] According to The New York Times, the house was sold in March 2017 for $2.14 million to "a limited-liability company represented by a law firm that specializes in Chinese foreign investment".
[39] After an attempt to sell it for $2.9 million in February 2019,[27][28] an auction planned to conclude on November 14 failed as no qualified bids came forward.
[42] Donald and Ivana Trump (his wife at the time) lived in an apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, which was decorated with beige velvet sofas and goatskin tables.
[1] According to family friend Nikki Haskell, Donald and Ivana lived in Olympic Tower prior to moving to 800 Fifth Avenue.
[1] In June 2019, he quietly sold the property, off-market, for $13.5 million to Hillcrest Asia Limited, a company owned by a Trump associate, Indonesian billionaire Hary Tanoesoedibjo.