From Architectural Digest, May 20:
Here’s what you need to know about the Amazon founder’s homes, from his Billionaire Bunker estate to his Washington, DC, mega-mansion
Tracing billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s homes over the years is like charting his career trajectory. The entrepreneur was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but grew up between Houston, Texas, and Miami, Florida. He founded Amazon, then an online bookstore, in 1994, and several years later, began to grow the company in Seattle, Washington, where he would live for several decades. As Amazon took off, Bezos began to pick up properties on both the East and West coasts, as well as in Texas, where he created a home base for his next venture: space travel. (In April 2025, Bezos successfully sent his fiancée, journalist Lauren Sánchez, into space on a Blue Origin rocket, along with pop star Katy Perry, morning TV host Gayle King, Nobel Peace Prize-winning scientist Amanda Nguyen, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn.)
In late 2023, the tech mogul made headlines when he announced his decision to relocate to Miami for good after spending three decades in Seattle. “My parents have always been my biggest supporters,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “They recently moved back to Miami, the place we lived when I was younger…. I want to be close to my parents, and Lauren and I love Miami.” Bezos has since picked up several properties on Miami’s Indian Creek Island, also known as “Billionaire Bunker,” totaling an estimated $237 million. Though that will most likely be Bezos and Sánchez’s primary residence following their June nuptials, the power couple still have their choice of trophy homes to pick from should they ever tire of the Miami sunshine—Bezos still maintains estates in California, Texas, Washington, DC, and Maui. Below, we’re sharing a look into each of the billionaire’s extravagant properties....
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The houses we took the most interest in was the D.C. place. From the above article:
Kalorama, Washington, DC, homes
Bezos made a big move to Washington, DC, in late 2016, snapping up two sprawling mansions measuring a combined 27,000 square feet for $23 million. Built in 1914, the massive pair of homes was previously the site of the Textile Museum and was recorded as one of the largest houses in all of DC. According to The Washington Post, which Bezos owns, the billionaire purchased the property with plans to convert the two adjacent structures into one single family home so that the Bezos family could use it during their visits to the city. Bezos’s neighbors in the Kalorama neighborhood include the Obamas, Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner. In 2018, Bezos was reportedly planning a $12 million renovation on the place, including the addition of a “garden room” to one of the two structures.The billionaire hosted his first social fete at the mega-mansion in early 2020 prior to the start of the pandemic, with an eclectic guest list ranging from Mitt Romney to Ivanka Trump to Ben Stiller.
Bezos kicked off 2020 with the purchase of a second residence in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, DC, for a considerably more modest $5 million. According to The Washingtonian, the mansion is located right across the street from his former textile museum home, leading to speculations that his purchase was primarily made for privacy reasons, as the mansion has a direct line of sight into the Amazon founder’s mega-mansion.
March 2018 - Jeff Bezos Will Probably Consolidate His Power Bases In The Washington D.C. Area (AMZN)
...Additionally the new location is (relatively) near CIA headquarters which is handy as Amazon is becoming quite the little spy contractor.
May 2018 - Inside Jeff Bezos’ DC Life
And January 2022 - "Inside Jeff Bezos’s Massive Real Estate Portfolio"
