1. The Library of Alexandria
The personal library of Bill Gates’ Medina estate is perhaps the coolest part of the whole property. It is a 2,100-square-foot, domed room, ornately paneled with a classic flavor. The reading room has a light well and fireplace, and it even has two secret, pivoting bookcases (who hasn’t always wanted one of those?!).
Behind one of the bookcases is a hidden bar (see: more hidden stuff). Somewhere in this library is the home of Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th-century notebook, the Codex Leicester. Bill Gates bought the priceless notebook on scientific writings at a 1994 auction, for $30.8 million (that’s nearly half as much as his entire house cost to create).
And finally, perhaps most fittingly, Gates had a quote from The Great Gatsby etched into the ceiling of the library, which reads: “He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.”
by Cory Barclay
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