List of largest houses in the United States

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This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes.

Largest houses

Rank Area Name Location Built for Owner Year completed Architectural style Architect Image
1 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m2) Biltmore Estate Asheville, North Carolina George Washington Vanderbilt II The Biltmore Company 1895 Châteauesque Richard Morris Hunt and Frederick Law Olmsted
 
2 110,000 sq ft (10,000 m2) Lynnewood Hall Elkins Park, Pennsylvania Peter A. B. Widener Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation 1899 Neoclassical Horace Trumbauer  
3 109,000 sq ft (10,100 m2) Oheka Castle West Hills, New York Otto Hermann Kahn Gary Melius 1919 Châteauesque Delano and Aldrich  
4 105,000 sq ft (9,800 m2) The One Bel Air, Los Angeles, California Nile Niami Richard Saghian 2021 Contemporary Paul McClean  
5 100,000 sq ft (9,300 m2) Whitemarsh Hall Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania Edward T. Stotesbury (demolished in 1980) 1917 Georgian Horace Trumbauer  
6 97,188 sq ft (9,029.1 m2) Arden House Harriman, New York Edward Henry Harriman Mo Tianquan (via Research Center on Natural Conservation) 1909 Châteauesque Carrère and Hastings  
7 96,582 sq ft (8,972.8 m2) Winterthur Winterthur, Delaware Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library 1932 Georgian Revival Henry Francis du Pont  
8 (tie) 90,000 sq ft (8,400 m2) Cornelius Vanderbilt II House New York, New York Cornelius Vanderbilt II (demolished in 1926) 1882 Châteauesque George B. Post  
8 (tie) 90,000 sq ft (8,400 m2) Shadow Lawn West Long Branch, New Jersey Hubert T. Parson Monmouth University 1927 Beaux-Arts Horace Trumbauer  
9 88,000 sq ft (8,200 m2) Meadow Brook Hall Rochester Hills, Michigan Matilda Dodge Wilson Oakland University 1929 Tudor Revival Smith Hinchman & Grylls  
10 85,000 sq ft (7,900 m2) Versailles Windermere, Florida David A. Siegel (under construction) Châteauesque  
11 (tie) 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m2) Florham Florham Park, New Jersey Hamilton and Florence Vanderbilt Twombly Fairleigh Dickinson University 1897 Georgian Revival McKim Mead & White  
11 (tie) 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m2) Harbor Hill Roslyn, New York Clarence H. Mackay (demolished in 1947) 1899 Châteauesque McKim Mead & White  
12 75,000 sq ft (7,000 m2) Indian Neck Hall Oakdale, New York Frederick Gilbert Bourne St. John's University 1908 Federal Style Ernest Flagg  
13 72,215 sq ft (6,709.0 m2) Pensmore Highlandville, Missouri Steven T. Huff 2016 Châteauesque  
14 72,000 sq ft (6,700 m2) Inisfada North Hills, New York Nicholas Frederic Brady (demolished in 2013) 1919 Tudor Revival John Torrey Windrim  
15 (tie) 70,000 sq ft (6,500 m2) Idle Hour Oakdale, New York William K. Vanderbilt Mercury International 1901 English Country Style Richard Howland Hunt  
15 (tie) 70,000 sq ft (6,500 m2) Woodlea Briarcliff Manor, New York Elliott Fitch Shepard Sleepy Hollow Country Club 1895 Italian Renaissance Revival McKim, Mead & White  
16 68,500 sq ft (6,360 m2) Hearst Castle San Simeon, California William Randolph Hearst California Department of Parks and Recreation 1947 Spanish Colonial Revival Julia Morgan  
17 66,341 sq ft (6,163.3 m2) Grey Towers Castle Glenside, Pennsylvania William Welsh Harrison Arcadia University 1896 Gothic Revival Horace Trumbauer  
18 66,000 sq ft (6,100 m2) Bill Gates's house Medina, Washington Bill Gates 1995 Pacific Lodge James Cutler  
19 64,500 sq ft (5,990 m2) Stan Hywet Hall Akron, Ohio Frank Seiberling Stan Hywet Hall Foundation 1915 Tudor Revival Charles Sumner Schneider  
20 64,000 sq ft (5,900 m2) Fair Field Sagaponack, New York Ira Rennert 2003 Italian Renaissance Mark Ferguson  
21 62,482 sq ft (5,804.8 m2) The Breakers Newport, Rhode Island Cornelius Vanderbilt II Preservation Society of Newport County 1895 Italian Renaissance Richard Morris Hunt  
22 62,220 sq ft (5,780 m2) Gemini Manalapan, Florida Gerard Barnes Lambert, Sr Larry Ellison 1940s Mediterranean Revival Marion Sims Wyeth
Edson E. Dailey
23 (tie) 60,000 sq ft (5,600 m2) Pembroke Glen Cove, New York Joseph De Lamar (demolished in 1968) 1916 Neoclassical C.P.H. Gilbert
24 (tie) 60,000 sq ft (5,600 m2) El Mirasol Palm Beach, Florida Edward T. Stotesbury (demolished in 1958) 1920 Spanish Colonial Revival Addison Mizner  
25 (tie) 60,000 sq ft (5,600 m2) San Sylmar Sylmar, California J.B. Nethercutt Nethercutt-Richards family 1971 Art Deco Tony Hinsbergen
26 58,000 sq ft (5,400 m2) Duke Farms Hillsborough Township, New Jersey James Buchanan Duke (demolished in 2016) 1903 Tudor Revival Henry H. Kendall  
27 57,000 sq ft (5,300 m2) Eschman Meadows Nashport, Ohio Tami Longaberger Awesome87 LLC and SPG87 LLC 2001 Georgian George Acock
Phil White
28 56,881 sq ft (5,284.4 m2) Castle Hill Ipswich, Massachusetts Richard T. Crane Jr. The Trustees of Reservations 1928 English Baroque David Adler  
29 56,500 sq ft (5,250 m2) The Manor Los Angeles, California Aaron Spelling Petra Ecclestone 1988 Châteauesque James Langenheim & Associates  
30 56,368 sq ft (5,236.8 m2) Andrew Carnegie Mansion New York, New York Andrew Carnegie Smithsonian Institution 1901 Georgian Revival Babb, Cook & Willard  
31 56,000 sq ft (5,200 m2) Blairsden Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey C. Ledyard Blair T. Eric Galloway 1903 Châteauesque Carrère and Hastings  
32 55,360 sq ft (5,143 m2) Ralston Hall Belmont, California William Chapman Ralston Notre Dame de Namur University 1864 Italianate Henry W. Cleaveland  
33 (tie) 55,000 sq ft (5,100 m2) White House Washington, D.C. Federal government National Park Service 1800 Neoclassical James Hoban  
34 (tie) 55,000 sq ft (5,100 m2) Belle Grove White Castle, Louisiana John Andrews (demolished in 1952) 1857 Greek Revival
Italianate
Henry Howard  
35 (tie) 55,000 sq ft (5,100 m2) Elm Court Lenox, Massachusetts Emily Thorn Vanderbilt Travaasa Experiential Resorts  1885 American Shingle Style Peabody and Stearns  
36 (tie) 55,000 sq ft (5,100 m2) Roundwood Manor Hunting Valley, Ohio Van Sweringen brothers Sylvia Korey 1929 Colonial Revival Philip Lindsley Small
36 (tie) 55,000 sq ft (5,100 m2) Belton Court Barrington, Rhode Island Frederick Stanhope Peck ShineHarmony, LLC

(structure currently abandoned)

1905 Gothic Revival Martin and Hall; George Frederic Hall  
36 (tie) ~55,000 sq ft (5,100 m2) Rockwood Hall Mount Pleasant, New York William Rockefeller (demolished in 1942) 1849 Castellated Elizabethan Gervase Wheeler, Carrère and Hastings  
37 54,838 sq ft (5,094.6 m2) Dumbarton Oaks Washington, D.C. William Hammond Dorsey Harvard University 1801 Colonial Revival  
38 54,400 sq ft (5,050 m2) Chateau Montagel Shoal Creek, Alabama Larry House Medical Cloud Computing, LLC 1997 Châteauesque Bill Shephard  
39 54,246 sq ft (5,039.6 m2) Searles Castle Great Barrington, Massachusetts Mary Hopkins Searles Hunt Slonem 1883 Châteauesque McKim Mead & White  
40 53,000 sq ft (4,900 m2) Nottoway White Castle, Louisiana John Hampden Randolph Paul Ramsay Foundation 1858 Greek Revival
Italianate
Henry Howard  
41 52,897 sq ft (4,914.3 m2) Hala Ranch Aspen, Colorado Bandar bin Sultan John Paulson 1991 Rustic Hagman Yaw
42 52,300 sq ft (4,860 m2) Felix M. Warburg House New York, New York Felix M. Warburg Jewish Museum of New York 1906 Châteauesque Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert  
43 52,000 sq ft (4,800 m2) Villa de Formosa Newport Beach, California Joe C. Wen 2019 Italianate Brian Biglin
44 51,000 sq ft (4,700 m2) Hacienda De La Paz Rolling Hills, California John Z. Blazevich John Z. Blazevich 2008 Spanish Colonial Revival Rafael Manzano Martos
45 50,853 sq ft (4,724.4 m2) Chase Mansion West Hartford, Connecticut Arnold Chase Arnold Chase 2009 Georgian Allan Greenberg
46 50,729 sq ft (4,712.9 m2) Perry Belmont House Washington, D.C. Perry Belmont Order of the Eastern Star 1909 Beaux-Arts Ernest Sanson
Horace Trumbauer
 
47 50,316 sq ft (4,674.5 m2) Otto H. Kahn House New York, New York Otto Hermann Kahn Convent of the Sacred Heart 1914 Renaissance Revival J. Armstrong Stenhouse
Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert
 
48 (tie) 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m2) Crocker-McMillin Mansion Mahwah, New Jersey George Crocker Ilija Pavlovic 1907 (renovated before 2018) James Brite and Henry Bacon  
48 (tie) 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m2) Reid Hall Purchase, New York Whitelaw Reid Manhattanville University 1892 Renaissance Revival Stanford White  
48 (tie) 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m2) Wingwood House Bar Harbor, Maine Alexander Cassatt (demolished in 1953) 1903 Neoclassical Louis Magaziner
49 (tie) 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m2) Riverside New York, New York Charles M. Schwab (demolished in 1948) 1906 Châteauesque Maurice Hébert  
49 (tie) 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m2) Hempstead House Sands Point, New York Howard Gould Nassau County, New York 1912 Tudor Revival Richard Howland Hunt  
49 (tie) 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m2) 4545 NE Ocean Boulevard Jensen Beach, Florida Robert Eustace 2007 Italianate
50 49,842 sq ft (4,630.5 m2) Lutcher Brown Estate Terrell Hills, TX H. Lutcher Brown} Candace Humphreys 1938 Neo Classical Robert M. Ayres
51 49,568 sq ft (4,605.0 m2) 8271 E Left Hand Fork Hobble Creek Springville, Utah Tom Mower 2010 Italian Renaissance Kevin Scholz
52 49,300 sq ft (4,580 m2) The Pritzker Estate Los Angeles, California Anthony Pritzker 2010 Contemporary Grant Camden Kirkpatrick
53 49,240 sq ft (4,575 m2) 32088 SW Peach Cove Road West Linn, Oregon Mark Wattles Richard Stanley (under construction)
54 49,000 sq ft (4,600 m2) Ziff Mansion Pawling, New York William Bernard Ziff, Jr. Dirk Edward Ziff 2000
55 48,515 sq ft (4,507.2 m2) 50 Poplar Hill Drive Farmington, Connecticut Benjamin Sisti Casey Askar 1985 Contemporary
56 48,438 sq ft (4,500.0 m2) 1299 Via Tivoli Henderson, Nevada Pierre Omidyar 2010 Modern architecture
57 48,000 sq ft (4,500 m2) Champ d'Or Estate Hickory Creek, Texas Alan H. Goldfield “The Olana” Walter Wedding Estates 2002 French Baroque Architecture
58 47,000 sq ft (4,400 m2) Nemours Wilmington, Delaware Alfred I. du Pont Nemours Foundation 1909 Neoclassical Carrère and Hastings  
59 46,054 sq ft (4,278.6 m2) Greystone Mansion Beverly Hills, California Edward L. Doheny City of Beverly Hills 1928 Tudor Revival Gordon Kaufmann  
60 46,050 sq ft (4,278 m2) Carolands Hillsborough, California Harriet Pullman Carolan Charles Bartlett Johnson 1914 Second Empire Ernest Sanson
Willis Polk
 
61 46,000 sq ft (4,300 m2) Elstowe Manor Elkins Park, Pennsylvania William L. Elkins Landmark Venues 1898 Italian Renaissance Horace Trumbauer  
62 45,891 sq ft (4,263.4 m2) 457 Bel Air Road Los Angeles, California Beny Alagem 2006 French Normandy Robert A.M. Stern  
63 45,854 sq ft (4,260.0 m2) Villa Collina Moorestown, New Jersey Vernon Hill 2002 Italian Renaissance
64 45,843 sq ft (4,259.0 m2) Townsend House Washington, D.C. Richard T. Townsend Cosmos Club 1901 Beaux-Arts Carrère and Hastings  
65 (tie) 45,000 sq ft (4,200 m2) Illinois Executive Mansion Springfield, Illinois State of Illinois 1855 Georgian Revival John M. Van Osdel  
66 (tie) 45,000 sq ft (4,200 m2) Yaddo Saratoga Springs, New York Spencer Trask Corporation of Yaddo 1893 Tudor Revival William Halsey Wood  
66 (tie) 45,000 sq ft (4,200 m2) Darlington Mahwah, New Jersey George Crocker Jaime Garrido 1907 Jacobean James Brite  
66 (tie) 45,000 sq ft (4,200 m2) Henry Clay Frick House New York, New York Henry Clay Frick Frick Collection 1914 Beaux-Arts Carrère and Hastings  
67 44,936 sq ft (4,174.7 m2) Anderson House Washington, D.C. Larz Anderson Society of the Cincinnati 1905 Beaux-Arts Arthur Little
Herbert Browne
 
68 44,925 sq ft (4,173.7 m2) Le Palais Beverly Hills, California Mohamed Hadid Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva[citation needed] 2011 Châteauesque
69 44,309 sq ft (4,116.4 m2) Glencairn Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania Raymond Pitcairn The New Church 1938 Romanesque Raymond Pitcairn  
70 44,234 sq ft (4,109.5 m2) Villa Vittoriosa Fayetteville, Georgia Evander Holyfield Rick Ross 1994 Neoclassical Portman Fuchtman Vinson Sunderland
71 44,229 sq ft (4,109.0 m2) Ochre Court Newport, Rhode Island Ogden Goelet Salve Regina University 1892 Châteauesque Richard Morris Hunt  
72 44,000 sq ft (4,100 m2) Hyde Park Hyde Park, New York Frederick Vanderbilt National Park Service 1899 Beaux-Arts Charles Follen McKim  
73 43,793 sq ft (4,068.5 m2) Boldt Castle Alexandria Bay, New York George Boldt Thousand Islands Bridge Authority 1904 Chateauesque G.W. & W.D. Hewitt  
74 43,561 sq ft (4,046.9 m2) Marland Mansion Ponca City, Oklahoma Ernest Whitworth Marland City of Ponca City 1928 Mediterranean Revival John Duncan Forsyth  
75 43,557 sq ft (4,046.6 m2) 901 Trophy Hills Drive Las Vegas, Nevada Sheldon Adelson 2013
76 43,515 sq ft (4,042.7 m2) Asherwood Carmel, Indiana Melvin Simon Great American Songbook Foundation 1999 Chateauesque
77 43,040 sq ft (3,999 m2) Primatara Springfield, Missouri Robert Low Robert Low (under construction) Richard Drummond Davis
78 42,831 sq ft (3,979.1 m2) Château des Fleurs Los Angeles, California James A. Kaplan 2014 Chateauesque William Hefner
79 42,014 sq ft (3,903.2 m2) 51 Winding Brook Drive Saratoga Springs, New York John Breyo 2006 Mediterranean Revival Robert Flansburg
80 (tie) 42,000 sq ft (3,900 m2) Payne Mansion Esopus, New York Oliver Hazard Payne Marist College 1911 Beaux-Arts Carrère and Hastings  
81 (tie) 42,000 sq ft (3,900 m2) Rose Terrace Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan Anna Thompson Dodge (demolished in 1976) 1931 Neoclassical Horace Trumbauer  
82 41,774 sq ft (3,880.9 m2) Le Palais Royal Hillsboro Beach, Florida Robert Pereira 2014 Beaux-Arts Denio Madera
83 40,050 sq ft (3,721 m2) Carolands Hillsborough, California Harriet Pullman Carolan Charles Bartlett Johnson 1914 Second Empire Ernest Sanson
Willis Polk
 
84 (tie) 41,000 sq ft (3,800 m2) Hayes Mansion - San Jose, a Curio Collection by Hilton San Jose, California Mary Hayes Chynoweth JMA Ventures 1905 Mediterranean Revival George Page  
85 (tie) 41,000 sq ft (3,800 m2) NYIT de Seversky Mansion Old Westbury, New York Alfred I. du Pont New York Institute of Technology 1918 Georgian Revival Carrère and Hastings  
86 40,916 sq ft (3,801.2 m2) Il Palmetto Palm Beach, Florida Joseph E. Widener James H. Clark 1927 Mediterranean Revival Maurice Fatio
87 40,280 sq ft (3,742 m2) Walker McCune Mansion Paradise Valley, Arizona Walker McCune George A. Hormel family 1962 Contemporary
88 (tie) 40,000 sq ft (3,700 m2) Mills Mansion Hyde Park, New York Ogden Mills New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation 1896 Beaux-Arts Stanford White  
88 (tie) 40,000 sq ft (3,700 m2) The Braes Glen Cove, New York Herbert L. Pratt Webb Institute 1912 Jacobean James Brite  
88 (tie) 40,000 sq ft (3,700 m2) Coe Hall Upper Brookville, New York William Robertson Coe Planting Fields Foundation 1921 Tudor Revival Guy Lowell  
88 (tie) 40,000 sq ft (3,700 m2) Rynwood Old Brookville, New York Samuel Agar Salvage John Mariani Jr 1927 Tudor Revival Roger Bullard
88 (tie) 40,000 sq ft (3,700 m2) 10697 Somma Way Los Angeles, California Ty Cueva 2017 Spanish Colonial Revival
89 39,648 sq ft (3,683.4 m2) Seaview Terrace Newport, Rhode Island Edson Bradley Martin Carey 1925 Chateauesque Howard Greenley  
90 39,400 sq ft (3,660 m2) 137 Beech Ridge Dr

’Villa Noci’

Bell Acres,

Pennsylvania

Joseph Nocito Sr. 2003 Chateauesque
91 38,000 sq ft (3,500 m2) 5501 W Hamilton Road S

‘Pizza Hut Mansion’

Fort Wayne, Indiana Dick Freeland 1997 Chateauesque

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