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Jane Seymour’s Former English Manor Lists for $15.8 Million

By Katie Schultz

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An ancient English manor with a celebrity pedigree just hit the market with an asking price of $15.8 million (£12.5 million), Mansion Global reports. British actor Jane Seymour owned—and carefully restored—the 11-bedroom and seven-bathroom countryside dwelling from the mid-1980s until 2007. The abode, known as St. Catherine’s Court, is located near Bath, England.

The 18,987-square-foot home dates back at least as far as 1591 and features elements of both Tudor - and early- Jacobean -style. It’s a protected historic monument, as are its gardens. Also featured on the grounds of the 14-acre estate are its namesake church, a tithe barn, a five-bedroom lodge, a three-bedroom cottage, horse stables, and an orangery.

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An aerial view of St. Catherine’s Court.

The Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman star lent out the space to several alt-rock bands in the ’90s; Radiohead recorded their Grammy-winning album OK Computer there, as did The Cure for their album Wild Mood Swings , and the group New Order recorded part of their 2005 album Waiting for the Sirens’ Call there. English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams rented the property in the 2000s and really must’ve taken a shine to it, as he presented the manor as his own dwelling on the first episode of MTV Cribs (he later apologized for the misleading claim).

Intricately carved plaster ceilings, stone-mullioned leaded glass windows, oak floors, coffered ceilings, and large fireplaces are among the home’s grand historic details.

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“What I love about St. Catherine’s is that you can live here and pretend you’re a farmer, and you never need to get out of your jeans and boots, which is how we usually live here,” Seymour told AD during a 1991 tour of the residence. “Or you can be extremely grand and dress up for dinner in another part of the house.” The Wedding Crashers actor told AD that she ate in the wood-paneled dining room by candlelight every night. The fireplace-warmed room has since been wired for electricity, but the same ornate floor candelabras remain.

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Gather in the grand social room on the ground floor of Casa Grande just as W. R. Hearst’s guests did decades ago for cocktails, conversation, and to meet their host. Admire the magnificent room’s walnut paneling, Renaissance and Baroque tapestries and masterpieces of neoclassical sculpture.

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Mr. Hearst and architect Julia Morgan named the dining room after the word for a monastery’s dining hall. Its high windows, bright silk banners, and gleaming silver candlesticks convey the atmosphere of the Middle Ages, but the mustard and ketchup bottles show that Mr. Hearst liked to keep things informal at his ranch.

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The Billiard Room was a popular spot, where guests could relax and play both billiards and pool. This room is decorated with a variety of gaming themes, but it also boasts a 15th century Spanish ceiling painted with scenes of courtly life, in addition to a Flemish tapestry from 1500.

The Theater is where W. R. Hearst and Hollywood film star Marion Davies joined guests every night to watch a full-length movie and newsreel. Today, as a guest of the Castle, you’ll be able to view historic Castle footage with moving images of Mr. Hearst and his guests.

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Traditional Dining Room Reveal

Turn a basic dining room into a beautiful traditional dining room with classic details and pattern play with fabric and wallpaper choices. Get the scoop on lighting, wallpaper, decor and more in this lovely dining room makeover photo tour.

This dining room has taken a very different style turn than the dining room in my last home. We went from farmhouse style to a traditional style. And it has been so fun to learn how to decorate with a whole new style!

The process all started when I realized the farmhouse furniture I had built and brought with me from my former home was 1) too big for this new space and 2) not the right style for my home.

I initially had the walls painted Kendall Charcoal above the wainscoting, while I made a plan for decorating the room.

As I was selling my farmhouse table and media console , I was given the generous gift of my grandmother’s dining room furniture set. Not only is it the perfect size for my room, it fits the more classic style of my home.

So, I set out to make the room coordinate with the furniture!

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The Design Plan

Before I start any room makeover, I create a design plan to help me see how all of the pieces will work together. Seeing it all together “in the room” is the primary goal of the design plan. You can find the full dining room design plan here .

I made numerous tweaks along the way. And I hired an interior designer ( Sydney Collins Interiors ) to help me select a few of the details, like the trim tape, chair fabric, rug and lamp shades. She also helped it coordinate with some adjacent rooms.

The second purpose of the design plan is to keep me focused, on track and able to envision the end result. I inevitably feel lost in the middle of every project and start to doubt myself. But with the plan before me, it helps me to stay the course and trust the process.

You can learn more about how I create this design plan in my post: How to Make a Mood Board (in 3 Easy Steps!) .

Blue & Green Dining Room Makeover Design Board

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This dining room is on main floor of our home, just to the left as you enter the front door. So, I wanted it to be a showstopper in terms of it’s own style and vibe.

It’s a beautiful room with layered board and batten on the bottom third of the wall and detailed crown moulding. There are two windows on the southeast wall of the room and two doors leading to the entry way and butler’s pantry.

My vision included incorporating several beautiful patterns and focusing on a blue and green color scheme.

If you love this style, check out my blog post on Grandmillennial Style .

Dining Room Before

Let’s take a look at the original photos of the dining room from when we moved in. This pistachio green color is actually making a comeback in home decor, but it’s not my taste.

I initially painted the top two-thirds of the room in Kendall Charcoal to coordinate with my existing furniture and called it good-for-now.

When I received my grandmother’s antique dining furniture, I wanted to create a room that highlighted the beautiful dark wood. And here’s how it looks now!

Dining Room Paint Color

I had original planned to paint the trim and moulding in Carolina Gull by Benjamin Moore. But in the end I went a little bit lighter with Oyster Bay from Sherwin Williams.

I wanted a light-medium green color in order to make a greater contrast between the walls and the furniture. But Oyster Bay left less contrast between the blues and greens, so it’s possible I’ll re-paint it darker in the future.

It was incredible how the green walls and wallpaper made the furniture appear less red. I know green is opposite red on the color wheel, so that is supposed to happen. But it was really noticeable when half the room was still gray and the other half green.

I really love Oyster Bay, though, and it coordinates really well with Comfort Gray in the kitchen. I’ll use Comfort Gray again in the laundry room, so they will flow nicely from one room to the other.

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Traditional Dining Room Wallpaper

Originally I had chosen a floral tree wallpaper that is really popular right now. Truthfully the popularity of that paper and more modern feel turned me away from the original wallpaper we had selected.

So, when I went back to Sydney to get some other ideas, she suggested this green toile wallpaper . It worked perfectly with the Oyster Bay paint color, and it is absolutely beautiful!

I love that is it a traditional style and depicts a forest scene with sweet little deer and a cute bird. It feels very reminiscent of our back yard.

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Ornate Brass Mirror

The mirror was one of the first purchases I made for this room. I knew it was perfect the moment I saw it. At more than 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide, it really makes a statement and bounces light all over the room.

The frame of the mirror is actually metal and very heavy and sturdy! I love it so much.

Dining Room Drapes with Trim Tape

The taupe buffalo check curtains were selected to balance out the floral wallpaper. It’s a classic geometric pattern that also calls to the plaid painted wall that can be seen across the entry way in the office.

I added a blue trim tape to the curtains to make them more custom and to bring in a pop of blue to that side of the room.

Recovered Seat Cushions with Blue Geometric Fabric

The dining chairs were originally covered with maroon needlepoint floral covers. They were made by hand by someone in my family, so I originally planned to have some seat covers made to go over the cushions.

I pulled in a fabric with a smaller geometric pattern in blue for the seat covers.

But then I decided the 80-year-old seat cushions probably needed to be replaced. So, I did my first ever reupholstering project and shared: How to Reupholster Dining Chair Covers .

Dining Room Lamps and Lamp Shades

The blue and cream pleated fabric lamp shades are one of the biggest splurges in this room. I tried to find something comparable that cost less, but either I couldn’t find something in stock or the right color. These handmade shades are perfection, so I saved up my money for a few months so I could order them.

The double gourd lamps are also gorgeous and more than I would normally spend on a lamp. But again, sometimes a less expensive option isn’t quite right.

I tried these double gourd lamps first to see if they would work. I liked them, but they weren’t the right color. (One is now in my office and I LOVE it there!)

Initially, I worried that the white lamp base would be too stark, but it’s a beautiful white that coordinates beautifully with the wallpaper background. I know I will treasure these lamps and lamp shades for life.

Double Gourd Lamp with Pleated Lampshade

Dining Room Chandelier

This gorgeous Visual Comfort Chandelier is a stunning 8-light brass chandelier . I have the sconce from the same line in my powder room .

So I first spotted this chandelier two years ago when I first started looking for a replacement dining room chandelier , I fell in love. And I stalked it until it went on sale for Black Friday.

Then, I waited almost 6 months for it to arrive. The brass it beyond beautiful and the curves and details are perfection. I’m so glad I saved up for this beauty.

Funny story: I knew I wanted to do a ceiling medallion above the chandelier . So, when it came time to install the chandelier, I had totally forgotten to get a medallion. So, I quickly ran to Lowe’s and found the best one. I don’t love it, but it’s probably too much of a pain to change at this point. Ha!

Dining Room Rug

This natural fiber rug has a lovely fish scale pattern and a rubber backing to keep it from sliding around the floor. I wanted a jute or sisal rug in this space to bring in a contemporary feel and coordinate it with a lot of other natural fiber elements in my home.

Traditional Dining Room with Brass Chandelier

Originally I purchased a two toned, diamond sisal rug , but sent it back because it competed too much with the other patterns in the room. In the end, I love the subtlety of this rug, yet still a little bit of pattern.

Traditional Dining Room Finishes

There are a couple of finishing decor items I’ve added to the room, but not too many. I like to let the room evolve over time. So, later I plan to add art as I find pieces that I love.

But for now, the square glass finials on the curtain rods are one of my favorite details.

And then I added these plates to the wall between the curtains. The pear platter is no longer sold, but it inspired this room’s color scheme, so I had to include it somewhere!

The colorful key tassel I used on the china cabinet just adds another layer of beauty and whimsy to the room.

The faux orchid in a blue and white bowl is something I bought last year with this room makeover in mind. I knew it would be perfect sitting in the middle of the dining room table.

And finally, I found the antique brass candle sconces at a local thrift store. I love how the blue tapered candles repeat the secondary blue color.

How do you like the room makeover? I’m so happy with how it turned out, and I hope you find inspiration for decorating the next room in your home!

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22 comments.

I love your dining room! I just stumbled across this on Pinterest when looking for inspiration. I have very similar furniture and have always considered myself a little granny chic (aka grandmillenial in my decorating style). In wanting to copy your style a bit… would you mind telling me how big your room is? Also, I swear in these photos your wallpaper looks gray not green! I have ordered both the gray and green swatches of your wallpaper and am waiting for them to come in.I do love the Oyster Bay color and intend to use the same, but I just don’t see green in that wallpaper 🙂 Love the style and cant wait to try some of your designs in my own dining room!

Your dinning room is lovely, as is your grandmother furniture, but the room would be ever so much nicer if got rid of the big bulky white fabric covered chairs and just used the additional chairs that go with the original set. And please declutter your china cabinet. Right now it looks like a catch all of what does not fit any where else; Simply display, one set of matching china, and leave all the other collectibles for another room. I don’t wish to seem harsh, for I do love your blog. But sometimes less is really so much more.

While your response does seem harsh, I can hear that you prefer a different way. And that is perfectly fine for your home! I like it the way it is, though, so I’ll be leaving it until I change my mind or find something I like better! Have a blessed day! – Laura

Your new dining room is intriguing. I love the curtains & esp. the blue stipe you added. While it’s a little beyond for me, it’s extremely pretty. I loved your previous dining room & actually have Kendal grey on some of my walls, thanks to you! However, I choose not to go real farmhouse-y. To blend farmhouse with traditional. Adding smoky yet somewhat bright sage greens. Darker, rust brown colored woods & soft, but bright whites.

I giggled when I saw this dining room because I grew up with it in the 50s. The wallpaper, furniture and brass mirror are so familiar to me. While I’d never think of repeating it, been there, done that, I think you’ve done a marvelous job. I admit my mother never would have dared to put up buffalo plaid draperies! Mix patterns, prints with checks, no way. LOL. June

I am so glad to see you’ve used wallpaper and a deeper color for the wood accents. I’ve been debating to use a color than white on the woodwoork in our 105 year old prairie cottage. It has a nice subdued soft pinkish-taupe printed wallpaper in two rooms I want to keep up. The dining room is a subtle stripe and living room a subtle floral in the same color tones.

After that we tackle the retro Robin’s egg blue bathroom with colored fixtures in pristine shape so we’re going to keep them in place.

As a long time wallpaper lover, I love It. The room looks exquisite!!

Thank you, Patti! xo, Laura

Your dining room is just lovely, thanks so much for sharing!

Your dining room looks beautiful, the decor coordinates so well. The only thing that I would change is the choice of curtains. They look more country than traditional and don’t seem to go with the room. Are they considered a traditional design?

Hi Debbie, thank you! I think you can find this classic pattern in several styles, but definitely in both traditional and country styles. I’ve seen them in both. 🙂

Laura- love the re-do in your dining room! Thanks for sharing. I have a question about you sisal rug- do you have any issues with food getting ground into it or staining it. I have grandchildren who eat at our dining room table a lot and was wondering if you have had any problem in the area.

Hi Karen! I haven’t had the rug long enough to be able to tell about food and how it works with spills. I’d recommend going to the Website and reading the reviews. There are many! Thanks so much! xo, Laura

Oh my — your dining room is absolutely beautiful and so special that it is focused and planned around your grandmother’s furniture. I absolutely love the wallpaper that you chose, and the paint color is just perfect with it — amazing how it toned down the red tones in the furniture. You will enjoy and make many special memories in your beautiful dining room!

Thank you, Nancy!! It’s been a fun makeover!

Ah, lovely work, my dear. For me, I’ll always love your “farmhouse” look, too.

It might be traditional, but you made it light and airy and modern. It’s perfect.

It looks beautiful Laura. Love how you are using your grandmother’s furniture.

I’m usually not a big fan of wallpaper, but oh my that looks so so lovely!

I love it and it’s been fun to watch the process! I’m thrilled it started with your grandmother’s beautiful furniture.

Looks beautiful, Laura!

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The first floor contains the more formal parts of the Mansion, including the dining rooms, parlors, central hall, and Washington's study.

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22' 9" wide x 30' 6" long x 16' 6" high

Washington called this room—the last addition to the Mansion and the grandest space in the house—his “New Room.” With its two-story-high ceiling, detailed architectural ornament, and stylish furnishings, the New Room was intended to emphasize unpretentious beauty and fine craftsmanship, qualities he believed communicated the new nation’s values. Washington summed up his ambitious goals for the room in a letter written while he was off fighting the Revolutionary War: “I would have the whole executed in a masterly manner.”

Opting for vivid paint and wallpaper through much of the house, Washington made choices that expressed the tastes of his era, when the use of bold colors was a sign of wealth. The stunning green of the wallpaper in this room was one of his favorites. The furnishings include various original Washington pieces as well as period pieces similar to those the Washingtons would have owned. Washington ordered the Federal-style sideboard (on the river side of the room) and several of the side chairs from Philadelphia cabinetmaker John Aitken near the end of his presidency.

Like the grand “salons” of fashionable 18th-century English manor homes, this room was meant to serve several functions. As a receiving area for visitors, its high ceiling, large volume, and symmetrical decoration made the space truly impressive as the room alone was larger than most houses in colonial Virginia.

As well as its scale, the New Room’s large north-facing window made it an ideal picture-gallery. Washington hung 21 works of art in the room; the six large landscape paintings currently on display are the original canvases that Washington acquired.

Finally, the room was used occasionally for dining, likely for guests of high rank or large parties that could not be accommodated in the smaller dining room.

The New Room’s high ceilings and two exterior doors also provided much-needed cross-ventilation when the Washingtons entertained during the warm summer months.

b Front Parlor

Front Parlor, 2019, photo by Gavin Ashworth

Detail of Washington family coat of arms, 2019, photo by Gavin Ashworth

16' 9" wide x 16' 6 long x 10' 10 3/8" high

Before the New Room was completed, Washington considered the front parlor to be “the best place in my House." This elegant room was a public space where visitors enjoyed the Washington family's company. Tea and coffee were customarily served here during the winter and on rainy days, and the household gathered here in the evenings to read, discuss the latest political news, and play games.

The architectural elements, including the mantel, two Palladian door frames, and paneled walls. These features make the front parlor one of the finest surviving examples of colonial Virginia architecture.

Reminders of the Washingtons are evident throughout the room, from the family portraits adorning the walls to the family coat-of-arms above the carved mantel and the crest on the decorative cast-iron fireback.

c Little Parlor

16' 9" wide x 13' long x 10' 10 3/8" high

When George and Martha Washington returned home from the presidency, they decided to convert what had been a first-floor bedchamber into a family parlor and music, thus allowing more space for informal entertaining.

Music played an important role in the Mount Vernon household, as it did in other genteel Virginia homes of the period. Music masters traveled from plantation to plantation, instructing the young, and their presence often inspired lively social gatherings filled with music and dancing. Washington loved to dance, and he is reported on one occasion during the Revolutionary War to have done so for three hours.

Though by Washington's own account he could neither sing nor “raise a single note on any instrument," he helped ensure that his stepchildren and step-grandchildren were instructed in music. Early in his marriage, he ordered a spinet for Martha's daughter, Martha (Patsy) Parke Custis, and a violin and German flute for Martha's son, John (Jacky) Parke Custis.

d Central Passage

Central Passage, 2020, photo by Sierra Medellin

13' 13" x 30' 8" long x 10' 7 ½" high

The central passage is the entryway into the Washingtons' home, the place where visitors who came by carriage through the west front drive were greeted. Entertaining also occurred in the central passage, particularly during hot Virginia summers when the family gathered here to enjoy breezes from the open doorways. The elegant space, which runs the width of the house, provides magnificent views of the Potomac and the Maryland shoreline to the east and of the pastoral bowling green, fields, and woods beyond to the west.

When George Washington first enlarged the house, in 1758 and 1759, he added the native black walnut staircase to the central passage. Being prudent and practical, he moved the earlier staircase to provide access to the newly constructed third floor.

In this central hall you will find the Key to the Bastille , given to Washington by the Marquis de Lafayette in 1790, after the destruction of this infamous prison in Paris.

e Downstairs Bedchamber

15' wide x 13' long x 10' 9 ½" high

This bedchamber accommodated some of the many visitors who stopped at Mount Vernon before, and especially after, George Washington's presidency. He once described the house as a “well resorted tavern" because “scarcely any strangers who are going from north to south, or from south to north do not spend a day or two at it." According to his diaries, overnight visitors were present in his home about two-thirds of the time, arriving at a household that was already sizable. In December 1799, it included six people: the Washingtons; Mrs. Washington's youngest grandchildren, Washy and Nelly Custis; Washington's nephew Lawrence Lewis, who had married Nelly in February of that year; and the Lewises' newborn daughter, Frances.

f Dining Room

15' wide x 17' long x 10' 9 ½" high

One of the most striking spaces in the Mansion, the dining room is part of the original house, built in 1734. Over the years, the room underwent a series of renovations. While Washington was away commanding the Continental Army in 1775, it was updated under the supervision of his cousin Lund Washington. In 1785 striking verdigris-green paint was added. Washington believed the color to be “grateful to the eye" and less likely than other colors to fade; an overcoat of glaze further intensified the color.

In 1775 Washington decided to install an elaborately decorated plaster ceiling and add plaster ornaments above the fireplace. He hired an expert plasterer, identified simply as the “Stucco Man," who spent five months completing the hand-tooled ceiling. A renovation in 2001 uncovered some of his original pencil drawings on the ceiling laying out the design.

19' 6" wide x 16' 9" long x 10' 9" high

After George Washington's return to Mount Vernon at the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, the study became his retreat from ever-present family and visitors; a place where he could quietly and privately tend to business. Reportedly, no one was allowed in this room without his invitation. From here, he directed the management of his estate, receiving reports from overseers, making daily diary entries, and posting his accounts.

The study was also where Washington bathed, dressed, and kept his clothes. Each morning, he rose between 4 and 5 a.m. and went to the study, using the private staircase that led down from the bedchamber. According to the recollections of his step-grandson George Washington (Washy) Parke Custis, he lit his own fire and dressed himself. Washington used this quiet time to write letters or review reports until breakfast at 7 a.m., after which he usually rode out to his farms. In the evening, unless he had a social obligation or lingered talking to visitors after dinner, he returned here to read or confer with his secretary until around 9 p.m., when he went to bed.

In this room you will find a fan chair similar to Washington's, which helped him to stay cool on hot summer's days; Washington's chair that he used as President, a portrait of Lawrence Washington, bookcases, a secretary, and other artifacts from Washington's life.

h Butler's Pantry

Martha Washington's Covered Cup, a gift from Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest

4' 9" wide x 6' 6" long x 10' 9" high

Everyday Chinese porcelain dishes were stored in this small space. Finer china was stored in a closet on the third floor.

Evidence of the wiring for the house bell system can still be seen across the ceilings of the pantry and back hall. The bells summoned servants and enslaved individuals to the dining rooms, piazza, and one of the bedrooms.

The two-story piazza is the Mansion's most distinctive architectural feature. Extending the full length of the back of the house, it also has a practical function—catching the river breezes on a hot and humid Virginia day. The Washingtons treated the piazza as an outdoor room, serving afternoon tea here to visitors and family members seated in simple Windsor chairs.

From the piazza, visitors observe a wooded area, which was an 18-acre deer park. This was a common feature on large estates of the time. Washington stocked his with tame deer from nearby and from England for the delight of family and visitors. The trees between the Mansion and the river were carefully pruned to emphasize the view of the Potomac, creating a so-called "hanging wood."

Expansion of Mount Vernon's Mansion

In 1754, George Washington began residing at Mount Vernon, a 3,000 acre estate and a house that likely approximated 3,500 square feet. By his death, Washington’s Mount Vernon consisted of about 7,600 acres and an almost 11,000 square foot mansion.

Second Floor

The second floor includes six bedrooms, including the Washingtons' personal bedroom.

a Blue Room

Blue Room, 2021, photo by Gavin Ashworth

17' wide x 14' long x 8' 2" high

The Blue Room was one of the six primary bedchambers at Mount Vernon. Located at the top of the stairs on the second floor, the Blue Room overlooked the front entrance and the view to the west. By the late 1790s, it served as a bedchamber for visiting family and guests.

Architectural moldings and a mantel, painted cream in the 1790s, framed the space, while blue textiles and wallpaper distinguished it. A unique mix of furnishings acquired over the course of the Washingtons’ lifetimes offered comfortable accommodations and an innovative Rumford firebox provided a warmer, smoke-free stay during the cooler seasons of the year.

b Lafayette Room

Lafayette Room, 2022, photo by Gavin Ashworth

17' wide x 17' 6" long x 8' 1" high

This room is often referred to as the Lafayette bedchamber because it is believed that the marquis stayed here while visiting the Washingtons. Lafayette was a young French nobleman who volunteered his services in America's fight for freedom. Like his beloved Washington, he served without pay as a general in the Continental Army, and the two maintained a strong bond.

There is always a period likeness of Lafayette on display within this room. In a 1784 letter to the marquis, George Washington wrote, “It is unnecessary, I persuade myself to repeat to you my Dear Marqs. the sincerity of my regards and friendship, nor have I words which could express my affection for you, were I to attempt it."

c Small Room

7' 9" wide x 12' 9" long x 7' 11" high

Prior to Washington's expansion of the Mansion to a full two stories in the late 1750s, this room was part of a larger room. In Lawrence Washington's 1753 probate inventory this single room was called the room at the "Head of Stairs." The volume of the room at the head of the stairs was originally substantially smaller because the lower roof of Lawrence's house made this room an attic room with a knee wall and sloping ceiling. Despite the smaller size, in 1753, the room housed two bedsteads, although it is not known if they were assembled or merely stored here.

The hall bedchamber created by the 1757-59 work was described as "a Closet with the Window," while the garret stair occupied a space "6 feet by 12 off from the old Store room."

d Chintz Room

Chintz Room, 2022, photo by Dan Chung

14' wide x 15' 6" long x 7' 9" high

The Chintz Room was one of the finest of the six primary bedchambers at Mount Vernon. Located on the second floor in the southwest corner, it overlooked the front entrance to the mansion, the bowling green, and the vista to the west. Architecturally, a closet and a boldly-carved mantel with dramatic curves and spirals set this room apart from the others.

The room’s furnishings were inspired by the decorative arts of Asia, communicating the western fascination with the perceived luxury and splendor of eastern cultures.

e Yellow Room

Yellow Room after 2021 restoration.

16' 6" wide x 15' 4" long x 7' 9 ¼" high

The yellow room occupies the southeast corner of George Washington's 1759 house and is slightly larger than the first floor bedchamber that is below it. Before the remodeling of the 1750s, this space formed two rooms, one unheated and tucked under the east slope of the roof, and one heated called the "Yellow Room." With the creation of the full second story, the new Yellow Bedchamber received a corner fireplace and a window in the east wall; there may also have been a window in the south wall, or a door leading to the roof of the one-story south closet. The current mantel was installed in 1775 when the south addition to the house was added.

f Washingtons' Bedchamber

19' wide x 15' long x 7' 9" high

Located directly above the study in the private south wing was George and Martha Washington's spacious bedroom. Designed according to Mrs. Washington's suggestion that it be simple and functional, the room was also her sanctuary, where she planned her schedule and wrote letters to friends and family members. According to her grandson, she also spent an hour there each day reading the Bible and praying.

Washington died of a severe throat infection in this room on December 14, 1799. Upon his death, Martha closed the room and, for the remaining several years of her life, spent much of her time in a bedchamber on the third floor.

Purchased in the early 1790s, the bed was described by Mrs. Washington as “the new bedstead which I caused to be made in Philadelphia." Its design is in keeping with the Washingtons' preference for elegant simplicity. At just over six feet, six inches long, it was large enough to accommodate the General, who stood about six feet, two inches tall.

In this room you will also find a mantel clock from Washington's presidency and a fine French writing desk crafted of mahogany with a marble top and brass fittings.

Third Floor

The third floor includes a number of rooms that were used for storage and living space, and provides access to the cupola.

a,b Garret Chambers

18' wide x 10' 5" long x 7' 4" high

The four garret chambers were created by the remodeling work of the late 1750s. The rooms all changed slightly after the north and south extensions were completed in the 1770s. In their initial configuration none of these rooms had a fireplace, being heated solely by radiant heat from the chimneys of when fires burned in the rooms below. A small fireplace was added to the northeast chamber in 1776. In 1797, Washington drew a plan indicating that he intended to install a stove in the southeast chamber, but this stove was instead added to its neighbor to the west, which Mrs. Washington occupied after her husband's death in 1799.

c Lumber Rooms

North Lumber Room: 15'-5" wide x 20'-6" x 7'-6" at highest point South Lumber Room: 14'-9" wide x 23'-0" x 7'-4" at highest point

These two storerooms are located in the north and south additions made to the house in the mid 1770s. Tradition held that Martha Washington occupied the south lumber room after George's death, however, the 1799 inventory indicates that Mrs. Washington's room was heated by a stove, and architectural investigations clearly show that this room never had a stove. The only room to have had one is the room now identified as her bedchamber.

d Bull's Eye Room (China Closet)

6' 10" wide x 5' 6" long x 4' 9" high

The current size and shape of the china closet was created by the addition of the 35'-10.5" wide pediment in 1778, but paint analysis of the paint on the inside face of the door trim indicates that there was a room in this location dating to the raising of the roof at the end of the 1750s. The most prominent feature of this room is the large oval or "bull's eye" which is the focal point of the west pediment. Perhaps of more interest on some level is the original shelving in this space- a rare survival. The shelving confirms this space was used as storage, almost certainly the "China Closet upstairs" mentioned in the 1799 inventory.

Washington added this architectural feature, generally found on public buildings, to the Mansion in part to help cool the house, as it draws hot air out through open windows. By providing a strong vertical axis, the cupola also helps disguise the asymmetry of the west facade, facing the bowling green.

The weathervane atop the house decoratively incorporates a dove with an olive branch in its beak, symbolizing Washington's hopes for peace in the new nation. He commissioned the work from Philadelphia artisan Joseph Rakestraw while presiding at the Constitutional Convention during the spring and summer of 1787. The weathervane here is an exact replica of the original, which is preserved and in Mount Vernon's collection.

Structural evidence for the changes to the Mansion can be found within the cellar.

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We Switched Our Living Room and Dining Room!! (The Video Tour)

April 27, 2020

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I’m back with the 3rd round of our crazy main-floor room swaps (links to other room swaps at the end of this post). Today, I’m sharing a look at how (and why) we flip-flopped our dining room and living room!

Yup, it’s a pretty wild swap…

But before I spend too much time explaining, watch the video below ( click here if the video player doesn’t load).

What do you think of our living room – dining room switcheroo?

Honestly, it still seems strange for us (even a full month later) but this switch has been so positive and practical for the current needs of our family.

Here are a few before/after pictures of each space.

Confession: I totally forgot to take “before” pictures as we were so excited to start moving things around. The “before” pictures below cover several years of our living room (they won’t all look the same).

PHOTO = Looking down into the room from the steps.

NOTE: as I mentioned in the video, we are planning to get hardwood flooring in the new dining room and my uncle is building us a farmhouse table… so this space is not complete yet.

Looking into the room from the front door.

Looking into the room from the kitchen.

Standing in the hallway, looking through the living room and dining room.

Looking towards the office area.

Now for the dining room-turned-living room!

This space is finished and we are super happy with how it turned out!

Walking into the kitchen from the mudroom.

See how the dining space is very limited by the walls jutting out on the right? Our front entryway is on the other side, so we can’t remove the wall to make more space.

As you can see from the pictures above, the new living area is finished (and has been finished for a few weeks), however…

The dining room part of this switch is only about 30% complete!

We have big plans for this space, all of which require time, money, and the ability to leave our home to buy things from anywhere other than Amazon!

Here are a few of our ideas:

We plan to install hardwood flooring just like in the rest of our main floor .

My uncle is building us a massive farmhouse table (it will extend up to 12′ long)!!

I want to find a larger buffet or hutch to replace the red hutch.

We’d like to create some type of area for Dave to store all his school stuff (he prefers to work at the table or in our outbuilding, but needs one central “home” for his stuff).

I’m in the market for lights and “garland” to hang from the ladder (I haven’t found anything I like yet).

The photo below is more what I’m envisioning for this space (not exact, but closer)…

Seriously… I can’t wait!

I’ve been envisioning this dining room for years and years — it’s so exciting to finally make it a reality for our home!

Why Did We Make This Switch?

Back when we were first looking for fixer-upper farmhouses from 2008 through 2010, we had a fairly long and detailed list of things we wanted (I share more about that list in this post from 2010 ).

At the time, this house checked off everything on our list — so we bought it!

However, after we completed our amazing kitchen renovation in the fall of 2012 , and started entertaining more, I realized how cramped our dining area felt any time we had 8 or more people crammed around the table.

As we added more children to our family and continued entertaining quite regularly, we’ve talked endlessly about different dining room possibilities that could create more space.

Ideally, I wanted an 8 ft. to 12 ft. long farmhouse table so we could host big dinner parties without feeling super cramped and crowded. I wanted lots of space around the table so people could easily get up from the table without everyone else needing to shift or get up to let the first person through.

The only idea that even seemed remotely feasible was to move our dining room table into our living room. However, that created a whole new set of problems because then where would our living space be?

Our basement is a junky old farmhouse basement, so it’s not in any condition to finish off as a family room, and all the other spaces in our home were “spoken for” by children.

So when Clara moved out of her nursery last month, our wheels started spinning… and we realized we could finally make our ginormous dining room dreams a reality!

To be honest, my desire for a huge dining room table instigated ALL the other changes we made over the past month!

Our ideas fell like a row of dominos as Dave and I quickly realized we could easily make this work with just a few more rounds of “musical bedrooms”!

Move Clara upstairs to share a bedroom with Nora .
Move our Master Bedroom furniture into the old Nursery .
Move the former Living Room furniture into our old bedroom ( now a cozy Den ).
Move the dining room table and hutch into the former living room.
Set up the former dining room as a smaller living space.
Order braided rug.
Hang ladder from the ceiling and hope we weren’t making a huge mistake!

It was a whirlwind 36 hours… but our whole family really had fun with it!

Why this switch works for our family:

For starters, we use our dining area SIGNIFICANTLY more than we use our living room.

We eat 3 meals a day around our dining room table.

We do lots of coloring, painting, gak , art projects, perler beads, and various other crafts — all at the kitchen table.

We are now “homeschooling” and do the vast majority of the lessons at the table.

Our “entertaining style” is more centered around food than TV.

We have people over for dinner (and sometimes even breakfast and lunch) several times a month (before quarantine).

When we entertain, it’s almost always for a meal — and then we end up sitting around the table and chatting, or breaking off into smaller groups (some adults go with the kids, guys go one place, women stay around the table, etc.)

We almost never invite friends or relatives over to “watch the game” or “watch a show” so we don’t need a huge media room or living area.

We don’t watch all that much TV as a family.

Yes, our children LOVE watching their favorite shows once or twice a day, but in general, Dave and I rarely watch TV.

I can’t even remember the last time I watched TV aside from a random movie I wanted to see last month ( it was SO good ) and watching The Crown on Netflix over Christmas break.

We’d rather sit around the table and talk versus sitting in a living room in front of a TV.

We now have the Den as a second living space.

If you watched my video tour last week, you know that we transformed our Master Bedroom into a Cozy Farmhouse Den .

This is the main reason we were able to swap our dining room and living room — because we created a second living space in addition to the smaller living area in the kitchen.

The Den now serves as a fantastic hangout space for our family, so we don’t need to do all our entertaining in the smaller kitchen living area.

A Few Questions We’ve Gotten 628 Times Already:

Where will you have your kids’ birthday parties?

Honestly, this is the number 1 question we’ve gotten so far… and I honestly just don’t understand it.

For starters, we don’t have big birthday parties (just immediate family members).

Also, we only throw a “party” for our children through Kindergarten. We let them have a friends’ birthday party in 1st grade. After that, we just have grandparents over for dinner.

And James’ and Clara’s birthdays are usually celebrated outside.

Finally, we celebrate kids’ birthdays 4 days of the year. The other 361 days it’s just our family. If we need to get creative 4 times a year, I’m OK with that!

But what about other holidays?

Like I mentioned above, the vast majority of our entertaining happens around the dining room table. I make lots of food, we eat lots of food, and then we sit around the table and chat, play games, make Gingerbread Houses, etc.

When we leave the table, we usually break off into groups or go outside. The kids usually end up playing upstairs, the guys usually end up watching TV (which would now happen in the Den). And the women usually stay at the table or congregate in the kitchen (which now has comfy couches and chairs!)

Also, Dave’s mom usually hosts all their family holidays, and my sister lives just down the road from us, so we usually tag-team for my family’s holidays (I cook and serve the food, then we go to her house to hang out since she has a HUGE family room in her basement).

Why on earth do you have CARPET under your table!?!?!?!

This is another question we’ve gotten from so many bewildered people — and yes, I totally understand!

In a perfect world, I would never choose carpet under our table — but as I mentioned in the video tour, our plan is to eventually install wide-plank hardwood in this space ( to match the rest of the main floor ).

I love the look of a braided rug under a big farmhouse table — however, it will look significantly better once it’s laying on dark hardwood flooring!

Why would you want fabric furniture in your kitchen?

Well, first of all, it’s not my “kitchen” — it’s the former dining area.

Also, my kids ALWAYS want to be in the kitchen with me… and dinner guests often end up milling around in the kitchen while I’m making food — so having comfortable seating for them to hang out with me in the kitchen has been hugely positive!

It’s a darker couch, so it won’t show stains as much — and if it gets dirty, I’ll clean it!

Product Sources:

The only thing I purchased for this room swap was this braided rug .

Other than that, we already had everything in these two rooms. They were things I sourced from thrift stores and garage sales over the years… or they were given to us as family heirlooms.

Whew — I hope you enjoyed this tour!

I’ve gotten so many emails from readers who have taken steps to rearrange a few spaces in their own homes after watching my videos!

You may view our other room swaps via the links below.

Nursery turned master bedroom
Master bedroom turned den

Do you have more questions?

Ask away in the comment section and I’ll do my best to answer quickly!

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Dining Room

Of noble proportions and of a style that recalls state dining rooms in English country houses of the 18th century, the Dining Room was an appropriate setting for the formal dinners that Mr. Frick hosted, at a rate of two per week, from October through May. Lining the walls are 18th-century British paintings, a customary choice for the dining room of a grand residence. Because the furniture in this room was to be used, it was modern. Mr. Frick’s interior designer, Sir Charles Allom, based his designs on English models of the 18th century. From the basement kitchen, food was sent up via a dumbwaiter to the adjoining Butler’s Pantry.

Archival Photographs

photo of dining room with paintings, table, chairs and window, circa 1927

Dining Room, 1927

photo of dining room with table and chairs and lighting fixture, fireplace, circa 1927

Dining room, 1927

photo of dining room with paintings, fireplace, lighting fixture, circa 1927

Dining Room during Frick Collection construction, 1933

photo of gallery dining room with paintings, with light fixtures, fireplace and ropes

Dining Room, 1935

photo of dining room with drapes, paintings and lighting fixture, circa 1947

Dining Room, looking southwest, 1947

photo of dining room with paintings, fireplace, table and lighting fixture, circa 1947

Dining Room, looking northeast, 1947

photo of dining room with paintings and lighting, tables circa 1947

Dining Room, north wall, 1947

photo of room with painting above fireplace, circa 1964

Dining Room chimney piece with overmantel, 1964

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The King’s Private Apartments A private apartment for collections

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After his state apartments, Louis XIV created a suite of rooms designed for more personal use, which opened onto the Marble Courtyard and the Royal Courtyard. Here he displayed his collections of artworks and paintings. Louis XV made many changes and extended the apartment to the upper floors, creating new rooms, work cabinets, dining rooms, libraries, scientific galleries, and laboratories. These apartments allowed the king to enjoy a certain amount of privacy. The space was also used by Louis XVI, who in turn adapted it to his own purposes.

These spaces are not open for unaccompanied visits, but can be visited during a guided tour most days at 10am,

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Louis XV’s Bedchamber

Louis XV built a new bedchamber in 1738 not far from his Ceremonial bedchamber , which was just as impractical as it was majestic. The new bedchamber was smaller and facing south and therefore easier to heat, and he died there on 10 May 1774 at 1 pm. The woodwork in the room, including the large palm trees and royal arms decorating the alcove, is by the sculptor Jacques Verberckt . The royal arms are covered by a brocade Gros de Tours fabric, a reproduction of the one placed here by Louis XVI in 1785.

To the left of the alcove is the entrance to the Clothes Cabinet, whose wooden panels are among the most beautiful in the Palace and were commissioned to the Rousseau brothers by Louis XVI on the eve of the French Revolution.

Louis XVI’s Clothes Cabinet

The Clothes Cabinet was made on the eve of the French Revolution and is the last masterpiece created in Versailles. It was one of the few large-scale modifications to the Private Apartments by Louis XVI and is exceptionally fine, with its carved wooden panelling and cornice. The task of creating this decor was entrusted to the skilled hands of the sculptors and brothers Jean Siméon and Jean Hugues Rousseau , whose final work for the Palace was also one of their greatest. This gilded sculptural decoration contains references to all the main fields of government including trade, farming, the navy, war, sciences and the arts. Nothing is without importance in the iconographic design of this room, which more closely resembles an Italian Renaissance “studiolo” than a room of such practical use as a clothes cabinet. It was, in fact, a place for working, a sort of very private cabinet. Louis XVI’s serious and diligent personality is brought to light in the decor here, which is far removed from the superficial, even conventional, themes in the decoration made for his predecessor. The colour theme consists in harmonious white and gold tones, as was common in the 18th century. The elements of moulding and the carved sections have all been gilded using water gilding, and stand out against the white glue-size paint.

The room was restored in 2009 thanks to support by Lady Michelham of Hellingly through the Société des Amis de Versailles

The Louis XVI's clothes Cabinet

The clock room.

Louis XV was very interested in science and especially astronomy. On the floor of this room there is a copper strip marking the Versailles meridian. The extraordinary clock , which gave the room its name, was first presented at the Academy of Sciences and then to the king in Château de Choisy, before being brought here in 1754. The clock displays the time, day of the week, month, year and lunar quarter, and in the crystal sphere the planets can be seen rotating around the sun. This scientific and artistic monument was designed by Claude-Siméon Passemant, Engineer to the King, and built by the clockmaker Louis Dauthiau. It was placed in a gilded bronze case made by Jacques and Philippe Caffiéri, father and son. It was used to set the official time for the whole kingdom for the first time.

In the centre of the room King Louis-Philippe placed a small-scale version of the equestrian statue of Louis XV , also known as Louis the Beloved, which Bouchardon had made for Place Louis XV, today Place de la Concorde, in Paris. The statue was destroyed during the Revolution.

ACQUISITION OF AN IMPORTANT DRAWING BY CARMONTELLE

This drawing was acquired by the museum on October 2022 and is by Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle . It depicts Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, First Valet de Chambre to Louis XV, in the King’s Private Apartment. The work dates from 1762 and is one of the few known portraits of this confidant of the king. Also depicted in the drawing is the Passemant clock – a masterpiece of science and gilded bronze that can still be seen at the Palace today.

The acquisition is a timely one for the Palace of Versailles, as it is currently hosting a major exhibition – entitled Louis XV, Passions of a King – to mark the tricentenary of his coronation.

The Dogs’ Room

As the name and decor on the cornice of this room suggest, Louis XV used this room for his favourite dogs to sleep in. The wooden panels are from Louis XIV ’s former Billiard Room, turned into a bedroom by Louis XV; the paintings of flowers above the doors are by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer and Jean-Baptiste Blain de Fontenay . This room was used by the Valets of the private apartments, who were known as the “blue boys” because of the colour of their livery , and served as a first antechamber to the private apartments.

The Post-Hunt Dining Room

This room was built to replace a small bath chamber in 1750. Once or twice a week Louis XV invited the Seigneurs and Ladies who had gone hunting with him to dinner, which was a great honour at the time. The meals were prepared in the King’s private kitchens on the third floor, and the Buffets room next door to the post-hunt dining room was used to facilitate table service. After dinner the King and his guests went to the Clock Room where they ended the evening playing games.

The King’s Private Chamber

This “corner room”, as it was often called, overlooked both the Marble Courtyard and the Royal Courtyard. Louis XV often enjoyed spending time here and it was from this chamber’s balcony that, with tears in his eyes, he watched the departure of the funeral procession for Madame de Pompadour one evening in the winter of 1764. The cabinet underwent several modifications during his reign, but in spite of this the wooden decor remains one of the finest pieces of work by Jacques Verbeckt , who sculpted the panels in 1753. The original furniture has been restored to the room, notably the cylinder desk commissioned to Oeben in 1760 and completed nine years later by Riesener . It was the first desk of its type, designed to enable the king to leave his papers on the desk but away from prying eyes. In addition to its remarkable marquetry and bronze sculptures, it is also a mechanical marvel: with a single quarter-turn of the key the king was able to lock or unlock both the cylinder lid and all the drawers.

The Dispatch Room

This room occupies the place where the Oval Room, created by Louis XIV in 1692, was once situated. The decoration is composed of Corinthian pilasters and four niches containing sculpted bronze groups, including the famous andirons by Algardi (Louvre). To the left this room led to the Small Gallery, and to the right to the Seashell Room. In the latter, which got its name from the decoration on its cornice, Louis XIV kept his most valuable manuscripts and books, as well as twenty or so paintings including The Pastoral Concert by Titian (Louvre).

In 1754, the Seashell room was removed to make room for the King’s Staircase, and the Oval Room was replaced by a private chamber and a water closet. The private chamber originally contained angular walls which were removed by Louis XVI , who nevertheless kept the carved wooden panels and the paintings by Galloche and Domenchin de Chavanne . Louis XV used to retire here to examine the reports from the secret agents he employed abroad, and to write instructions for them. This room was the headquarters of the “King’s secret”, the name given to Louis XV’s personal acts of diplomacy which he carried out alongside his official foreign policy and which led, among other things, to the “Diplomatic Revolution” of 1756 .

The small cabinet to the left of the window was made by Riesener to hold Louis XVI’s watches.

The Golden Service Room

This room was the private chamber of Madame Adélaïde , which she occupied on the first floor of the Palace between 1752 and 1769. It was built in place of the Small Gallery and the Ambassadors’ Staircase and still has several elements of decoration from the Small Gallery, including the cornice, pilasters and window chambranles. New woodwork was added between 1753 and 1767. The panels in the alcove are particularly noteworthy, dating no doubt from the work in 1753, and were raised up to their current position in 1767. Verberckt carved the trophies of musical instruments in a nod to the princess’s tastes, as well as fishing equipment and gardening tools.

For a time, Madame Adélaïde benefitted from the instruction of two of the greatest playwrights of the 18th century: Goldoni , who taught her Italian, and Beaumarchais , who taught her to play the harp. According to tradition the lessons took place in this room.

Later, Louis XV used the room for drinking coffee and displaying his golden tableware. Louis XVI placed here the exceptional ebony and mahogany cabine t, which was covered with porcelain plaques decorated with bird feathers and butterfly wings. Over the fireplace there is a very fine bust of Louis XV as a child by Coysevox . The two plaques in Sèvres porcelaine depicting Washing the Sultan and the Sultan giving orders to the odalisques in the style of Amédée Van Loo were commissioned by Louis XVI for his private chambers.

The Royal Ledger Room

This royal bathroom was one of the last works commissioned by Louis XV . The style of the wooden panels testifies to the change in tastes, reproducing prints of water activities in medallions surrounded by reeds and narcissuses, with effects of mat, polished (shiny) and green gold. It was not Verbeckt but his rival Antoine Rousseau , assisted by his sons, who created them in 1771. The bath was removed when Louis XVI made the room his “Royal Ledger Room” where he kept the books for this private accounts.

Louis XVI’s Library

This library was designed by the architect Gabriel not long before the death of Louis XV in 1774. It was the first to be commission by the young Louis XVI and the architect’s last work at Versailles. Although he already had several libraries on the upper floors, the king hastened the work on this large room which had the added benefit of being on the same level as his apartment.

In 1778 Louis XVI placed here the remarkable round mahogany table from Saint Lucia, attributed to the cabinetmaker Quervelle . Four years later he added the lavish commode by Riesener , one of the rare pieces of royal furniture still occupying its original place today.

The Porcelain Dining Room

This dining room was created in 1769 during the reign of Louis XV for his post-hunt dinners. It occupies the former place of two rooms of the apartment of Madame Adélaïde , one of which opened onto the courtyard and constituted her Grand Cabinet, in which the young Mozart most likely performed before the royal family in early 1764.

The room was most used by Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette . Over a period of 20 years, 40 or so guests were invited to sit around an extendible table for “society” meals. This new style of dinner was halfway between the official Royal Table and “private” meals. If the number of dinner guests exceeded the number of seats, the men went to the room next door where there was a buffet laid out on the billiards table. This dining room was also known as the Porcelain Room because Louis XVI used to present his latest pieces from the Sèvres manufacture here every year at Christmas.

Louis XVI’s Games Room

This room was originally Louis XIV ’s Cabinet of Curiosities, which opened onto the Room of Plenty , of which nothing remains today. After serving several other purposes, it was eventually used by Louis XVI as a Games Room. After eating in the dining room, the guests came here to drink coffee and play games. The king enjoyed a good game of trictrac , while one of his brothers played billiards in the room next door, and the other whist .

Although the furniture was sold off during the French Revolution, most of it has been bought back and restored to its original place, such as the four corner cupboards commissioned to Riesener in 1774 and the chairs built by Boulard in 1785. Works chosen by Louis XVI himself have been hung on the walls, including the watercolours commemorating the military victories of his grandfather, Louis XV , by Van Blarenberghe .

Guided Tour

The Private Apartments of the Kings

Behind the walls and the pageantry of the Grand Apartments lie the private apartments of the Kings.

From september 2019, this visit will be replaced by the visit "Versailles, private side" due to restoration works.

Behind the walls and the pageantry of the Grand Apartments lie the private apartments of the Kings. Discover the intimate atmosphere and refined decoration of the living spaces: Louis XVI’s clothes cabinet, the dining room, Louis XVI’s library, etc

This tour in English is available everyday except on Mondays.

This tour is also available in German (Deutch) on Sunday 16 th June.

This price is in addition to the admission price

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The Secret History of a Moscow Hotel's Double Life

During the Second World War, the famed Metropol Hotel became headquarters for a group of international journalists. A new book offers a thrilling peek inside.

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For much of the war, arriving journalists found the famous dining room closed, its centerpiece fountain no longer bubbling into a now dry and dusty marble pool, in which tradition required someone to be dunked on New Year’s Eve. The hotel’s assistant manager, a cockney turned Bolshevik named Jack Margolis, explained to one journalist that the dining room was closed to keep the guests safe in the event of a direct hit on the famous glass ceiling. But the closure served another purpose: to isolate the journalists from other guests in the hotel and to exclude outsiders they might want to invite to dine with them.

Instead of eating under the glass dome, the journalists were served their meals on the first floor, enjoying "ambassador level" rations, which included caviar and a daily cream pastry, one of only a few hundred baked each day for the whole population of Moscow. Service was slow: all the waiters were doddery old men brought out of retirement. The oldest, who had begun his career as a waiter as long ago as 1896, brought to mind the elderly retainer Firs who fussed over the samovar in Chekhov’s play, The Cherry Orchard . The journalists’ assistants–secretary-translators and couriers–were allowed one meal a day in the hotel, a benefit more important than their wages in maintaining their health and strength. The food they saved to take home, plus hunks of bread and sugar lumps given them by the journalists, helped feed their families. For the waiters, a couple of lumps of sugar would do as a tip.

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For the journalists living in the Metropol Hotel, the nerve centre was room 346, the office of the American news agency, United Press. This was, in the words of the American reporter Harrison Salisbury, a "gloomy cave," albeit one fitted with velvet curtains. There were three tables piled high with newspapers, and a cabinet full of tea things. Among the sugar cubes and crusts of black bread were some cans of food, provided by the US embassy after reporters complained their teeth were falling out due to lack of vitamins in their diet. Some slivers of cheese could be seen on a shelf, to be scattered on the floor to keep the mice out of the food cupboard. A two-burner hotplate was sited incongruously below a crystal chandelier. There was a small sleeping nook for the overnight reporter, and a bathroom hidden behind a heavy green curtain. The overall impression was of squatters having taken over a haunt of the rich.

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Looking out of the window of the United Press office in winter, you could see in the courtyard young women in padded cotton jackets chopping up wood for the hotel’s furnaces. In December 1941, the first winter of the war in Moscow, it was exceptionally cold, with temperatures drop-ping well below minus 35 Celsius. The hotel was rarely without some form of heating during the war—unlike ordinary homes in Moscow, where the centrally supplied heating was switched off, there was no running water, and people had togo to the public baths to wash. On the occasions in winter when the hotel’s heating failed there was usually hot water and correspondents tapped out their stories wearing boots and a hat and coat, and those with bathrooms filled up the tub so that the steam took the chill off the room.

For the Russian women who worked as interpreters for the foreign press, the view into the hotel’s courtyard was a sobering reminder of how privileged they were, and what jobs awaited them if they lost their posts at the Metropol. With all the men at the front, able-bodied women were conscripted to go to the forests in summer to collect wood for fuel.Standing in the river with the water up to their knees, they grasped the logs with long-handled hooks and lashed them together into huge bundles to be winched out of the water by crane. Keeping the Metropol warm was a huge endeavor. From time to time 30 or more female members of the hotel staff–cleaners, bookkeepers, administrators and cooks–were deployed to the forest to collect the timber to keep the furnaces going. The physical strain of the work and the danger of injury was a spur to any woman not used to physical labour to find supposedly vital war work in an office.

With the German army advancing towards Moscow, huge quantities of livestock were driven east through the capital, between the Metropol and the Bolshoi Theatre. Muscovites were astonished to see herds of cattle and pigs on the streets of the city center, the occasional animal disappearing as it was snatched and taken into a dark alley for butchering. Everywhere jerry-rigged chimney pipes protruded from houses at odd angles to allow residents deprived of modern sources of heat to burn wood in a stove at home.

The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War

By day, the hotel appeared to be running as a tightly policed press center. In the ill-lit lobby, described by one resident as "like being at the bottom of a pond," the NKVD men in their ill-fitting suits lounged around, while the assistant manager Jack Margolis stood behind the reception desk telling new arrivals that he had no record of their booking or, if they were lucky, handing them a key. The glass lift was taken out of service to save energy for the duration of the war, and Jack would apologize for not showing the guests to their rooms–his weak heart was not up to climbing the stairs. In the reporters’ rooms, the Russian secretaries mechanically translated the bland, propagandistic reports in the Soviet press while the correspondents scratched their heads, increasingly desperate as the day went onto find a new angle. The reporters’ couriers–generally young women of student age–dashed in and out of the hotel. In the morning they might go to the special store on Gorky Street where vodka could be bought with coupons only available to foreigners. Later in the day, they carried the reporters’ articles to the "Nark" (after the Russian abbreviation Narkomindel, the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, whose press department oversaw foreign journalists) and waited while they were censored, and then took the copy, now covered in blue marks, back to the reporter. If there was enough left of the original article to be worth sending, the courier hot-footed it to the Central Telegraph Office for transmission. At the end of the working day, the secretaries and couriers left to go home, taking in their bags scraps of food to share with their families.

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To all appearances, the system designed to control the journalists’ output was running to plan. The journalists were frustrated at being muzzled, but were powerless in the face of a system designed to control every word cabled from Moscow. At night, however, when the Metropol was a dark presence with all its lights smothered in the black-out, the outward display of order and discipline melted away. The anarchic spirit that had pervaded the hotel at different times in its history seeped back in under cover of darkness. Excerpted from The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War by Alan Philps . Published by Pegasus Books, July 2023.

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There's personal butler service and a private dining room for A-listers.

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According to Page Six , Swift and her athlete boyfriend stayed at the Hôtel De Crillon, which is a part of the Rosewood Hotels & Resorts portfolio. The hotel includes 10 sprawling suites that range in price from $4,600 to Tay's $21,000-per-night digs.

The luxe suites were intended to "embody an expressly Parisian residential style that is equally warm and refined," per the hotel's website . The residential-style guest rooms were not only designed by the late, great Karl Lagerfeld but offer "an incomparable atmosphere of contemporary sophistication that respect's the landmark's 18th-century heritage."

And while the luxe hotel includes quite a few equally impressive perks—like a personal butler service—the haunt's culinary vision takes the experience a whole step further. The property's on-site restaurant, Nonos par Paul Pairet, features traditional French cuisine "with a twist" and includes an expansive oyster bar, steak frites, and a lobster gratin. The main dining hall has fresh seafood, charcuterie, and artisan cheeses while guests (like Swift) can enjoy 24/7 room service. We have a feeling Taylor didn't go hungry during the stay.

The hotel's Michelin-starred restaurant L'Écrin offers a "unforgettable sensory expedition" with five- or seven-course meals that are carefully curated alongside beverage pairings. Swift also had the Jardin d'Hiver tea room at her disposal, with all-day dining and desserts by head pastry chef Matthieu Carlin, while its Les Ambassadeurs bar is the perfect spot for a nightcap with friends like Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper, who cheered her on alongside Kelce in Paris.

There's even a private dining room called La Cave, which we can only assume came in handy for Miss Swift given her A-list status.

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Vibe with dinner? These restaurants have DJs spinning in the dining room.

Whether you’re looking for chill beats over brunch or a chance to dance, the DJs at these D.C. restaurants have the right soundtrack for your meal.

When chef Enrique Limardo recently moved his acclaimed Latin American restaurant Seven Reasons to downtown’s CityCenterDC, there was one special addition designed for the dining room: a built-in DJ booth. It’s front and center in the restaurant, and this monumental structure is built to resemble the stone of Venezuela’s flat-topped “tepui” mountain ranges. From this perch, a DJ can scan the dining room and craft a soundtrack accordingly. (Chill beats fit the vibe for weekend brunch.)

Limardo and Ezequiel Vázquez-Ger, co-owner of Seven Reasons Group, are so enamored with bringing live performers into their restaurants that they created programming called “The Music Society” and also installed a DJ booth at the pair’s new restaurant Surreal near Amazon’s second headquarters in Virginia. “It creates a different experience, and it’s more fun,” Limardo explains.

Diners’ feedback confirms this, according to Vázquez-Ger. “At Seven Reasons, we started with regular DJ sessions on Fridays nights, and by popular demand, we’ve added DJ sessions to our Sunday brunch,” he says. “People get up to dance and mingle, and it feels like you’re not in D.C. anymore. We love that our guests can escape for a few hours through that multisensory experience.”

They aren’t the only restaurateurs enlisting DJs to create an environment that goes beyond food or decor, playing beats that ebb and flow with the night’s courses. Napkin-throwing Dupont Circle Greek restaurant Balos features its own DJ booth, as does Lebanese-Mexican spot Vera in Ivy City.

But DJing a restaurant isn’t exactly the same thing as spinning at a packed nightclub. “You’ve got to be a little more conscious of the guests,” says DJ Coco Spinelle , who spent last summer playing an Ibiza-esque mix on weekends at Boqueria downtown. “There are guests that came to brunch just to brunch and chat and not really hear music. Then you have others that really want to party. So you have to find the right in-between.”

If the right in-between for you includes a curated soundtrack, then consider one of these five area restaurants, all of which bring in DJs to add music to their menus.

How many restaurants have a global music director? That’s how seriously downtown’s glamorous Japanese izakaya Shoto is about music, snagging DJs from Buenos Aires to South Africa for gigs in Shoto’s DJ booth every Thursday through Sunday night. DJs aren’t given any notes, per se, but they all play Shoto’s style of upbeat house — defined as tunes with a pulse that you can listen to while still being able to chat with your fellow diners.

“If we do have live entertainment going on in the dining room, I call it magic. There’s this electricity in the air,” explains managing partner Arman Naqi. “People are really looking for a three-dimensional experience. It’s no longer solely about food, or solely about drink or service. People also want ambiance.” It’s more South Beach than K Street, with dressed-up diners eating sake salmon tacos to the beat. 1100 15th St. NW. instagram.com/shotodc .

Nestled by a towering tropical plant within West End’s Mercy Me , DJ Con ’s all set up for his 6 to 10 p.m. gig in the dining room at this funky, South American-inspired restaurant. He likes the early shift: Not only can he go out afterward, but he can really dig into the recesses of his 2,000-record collection. “I play stuff that I’m not playing at 2 a.m. in a club,” he says of his set, which favors Latin and African grooves mixed in with a bit of Sade.

Local record store Bump ‘n Grind is handling the bookings for DJs to spin vinyl every Friday and Saturday at Mercy Me, along with additional special events throughout the year. You’ll hear Brazilian beats, Colombian cumbia and more regional music styles to go along with espresso martinis topped with Amazonian cacao at the bar and dishes like cheesy fugazetta (a sort of Argentine pizza) topped with ricotta and figs. You can even book a live DJ for the 12-seat private dining room to create your own personalized musical dinner party. 1143 New Hampshire Ave. NW. mercymedc.com .

The brunch at Lyle ’s in Dupont Circle leans classic — think whipped goat cheese omelets, salmon Benedict and excellent banana bread. But it’s taken a bit of calibration for this hotel’s weekend DJ brunch to hit its stride — or dial back, as the case may be. One weekend, Lyle’s regional general manager Dan Pimentel and an executive from the hotel’s corporate office walked into the dining room to see that a conga line had formed as a DJ played the song “Gasolina” and diners danced around the restaurant’s serpentine, pristinely white couch.

That was a bit too much of a party. “There are plenty of places that do it bigger, louder and rowdier than we are, but we are a hotel,” Pimentel says. “We are in the heart of Dupont, and we want to be a good neighbor, so it’s not about getting too wild.”

Now, drop in the dining room around 11 a.m. and something jazzy might be playing, with the DJ building the energy gradually as brunch goes on until 3 p.m. “It’s a little bit poppy. The word we always go back to is ‘chill’; we don’t want it to be in your face, overpowering,” says Pimentel. “We want to make sure people are having fun, it’s music they know, music they like.” 1731 New Hampshire Ave. NW. lyledc.com .

Le Mont Royal

The disco balls scattered throughout Le Mont Royal should give a hint as to what you’ll hear at this French-Canadian-inspired bar and restaurant geared toward music lovers. “We tend to focus around vintage music: disco, funk, soul, boogie, Italo disco; there is some new wave sprinkled in there,” says co-owner Chas Jefferson. “For the most part, we play things that came out a long time ago.”

The DJ booth is built right into Le Mont Royal’s downstairs bar, with a “wildly large portion” of the restaurant’s opening budget going toward speakers and turntables. Records are always playing, and DJs spin vinyl every weekend starting at 9:30 p.m. “Vinyl just has this warm organic sound that just permeates your mood in a different way,” Jefferson says.

The music flows with Le Mont Royal’s fancy-but-playful menu of venison tartare and natural wines. “What I love is we get people that come in for dinner, and then people that would never go to a club to hear a DJ ended up getting into the music and hanging out for way too long and accidentally having a really good time,” Jefferson says. 1815 Adams Mill Rd. NW. lemontdc.com .

Daikaya Izakaya

Yama Jewayni, partner for Daikaya Group, never tells a DJ what to play during their Friday and Saturday night gigs at Daikaya’s upstairs izakaya in Penn Quarter. “When you pick a DJ, it’s like when you pick a chef. You don’t tell him what to cook. You pick him because of what he cooks,” Jewayni says. The bar and restaurant enlists DJs like Neal Becton, who owns Som Records , and gives them free rein to play whatever globe-spanning vinyl they’re feeling that evening. Depending on the Friday or Saturday night, you might hear Persian funk or tropical beats from the Caribbean, or Les the DJ playing Japanese bands covering Western music.

Jewayni, one of the partners behind the original Eighteenth Street Lounge, likens the experience to rifling through crates of records in London in the pre-internet days. “The music is obscure, and it’s eclectic and eccentric at the same time, and it’s something you’re not going to hear everywhere,” he says. The same could be said of the izakaya’s unique dishes, with creations like Wagyu beef donburi. For more Daikaya DJ sessions, the restaurant is about to kick off a monthly late-night Sunday “industry party” featuring DJs, drink and food specials, and drop-in guest bartenders. The first party on May 26 will close out Asian American and Pacific Islander cocktail week. 705 Sixth St. NW. daikaya.com .

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After a cross-country move, this homeowner spread her wings in a fanciful Dallas house.

Katie Brindell was ready for a change when she bought this newly renovated Craftsman in Dallas. She had just filed for divorce and moved halfway across the country from Raleigh, North Carolina, with her two dogs, Tory and Birch — and she was excited to make the place her own. Her vision for the space: “I wanted a fun and transitional vibe with lots of pastels,” she says. During the decorating process, designer Javier Burkle and his team kept finding pieces with butterfly motifs that fit with Katie’s color scheme. He thought it was a coincidence, but when he showed Katie, she knew someone else’s hand was at play. “After my mother passed away, butterflies became my symbol for her,” Katie says. “Seeing them was like a sign that she was there, guiding us and making her mark.”

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Katie's home is part of a historic district, so she wasn't able to make any major changes to the Craftsman exterior. "The town is super walkable with lots of bars and restaurants," she says. "I love walking my dogs here — it's very picturesque!"

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Katie inherited tableware from her mom, and she often breaks it out for parties here. To make the space feel separate in the open floor plan, she accentuated one wall with butterfly art and another with Schumacher wallpaper. The Wayfair chairs were originally all pink, but Javier had the backs covered in rainbow fabric from Pindler . “I never would have thought to reupholster just one strip,” says Katie. The custom chandelier is from Blueprint Lighting .

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Posted: May 17, 2024 | Last updated: May 17, 2024

<p>From President John F. Kennedy's top secret Cold War bunker and Winston Churchill's War Rooms to Hitler's Führerbunker, the scene of his demise, and the fallout shelter Stalin would have retreated to in the event of nuclear Armageddon, the world's most (in)famous hideaways have some intriguing stories to tell. </p> <p>Click or scroll through to explore 10 of the most notable underground fortresses of all time...</p>

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From President John F. Kennedy's top secret Cold War bunker and Winston Churchill's War Rooms to Hitler's Führerbunker, the scene of his demise, and the fallout shelter Stalin would have retreated to in the event of nuclear Armageddon, the world's most (in)famous hideaways have some intriguing stories to tell.

Click or scroll through to explore 10 of the most notable underground fortresses of all time...

<p><a href="https://www.loveproperty.com/gallerylist/75715/from-the-kennedys-to-the-gettys-amazing-homes-of-the-worlds-most-famous-families">John F. Kennedy</a> was elected US president in November 1960, during one of the strained periods of the Cold War. With the threat of nuclear annihilation growing, officials must have been in a state of total panic when they realized the new POTUS had no means of protection from a Soviet strike at his vacation home in Palm Beach, Florida, which went on to be nicknamed the Winter White House. The former president is pictured here visiting the property with his wife, Jackie, and children, John, Jr. and Caroline.</p>

JFK’s Cold War bunker, Florida, USA

John F. Kennedy was elected US president in November 1960, during one of the most strained periods of the Cold War. With the threat of nuclear annihilation growing, officials must have been in a state of total panic when they realised the new POTUS had no means of protection from a Soviet strike at his holiday home in Palm Beach, Florida, which went on to be nicknamed the Winter White House.

The former president is pictured here in 1963, visiting the property with his wife, Jackie, and children, John Jr. and Caroline.

<p>US Naval Construction Forces took a month in December 1960 to build a top-secret 1,500-square-foot fallout bunker on nearby Peanut Island, which the president and his family could reach within five minutes, via helicopter.</p> <p>The facility is accessed via a door reinforced with steel and concrete.</p>

US Naval Construction Forces took a month in December 1960 to build a top-secret 1,500-square-foot fallout bunker on nearby Peanut Island, which the president and his family could reach within five minutes, via helicopter.

The facility is accessed via a door reinforced with steel and concrete.

<p>Covered with 12 feet of earth and layers of concrete and lead, the bunker itself is located through a 40-foot-long corrugated metal tunnel, featuring a sharp 90-degree bend to mitigate the effects of a nuclear blast. While the installation wouldn't have survived a direct hit, it would have protected its occupants from a more distant blast, not to mention the ensuing fallout, for up to 30 days.</p>

Covered with 12 feet of earth and layers of concrete and lead, the bunker itself is located through a 40-foot-long corrugated metal tunnel, featuring a sharp 90-degree bend to mitigate the effects of a nuclear blast.

While the installation wouldn't have survived a direct hit, it would have protected its occupants from a more distant blast, not to mention the ensuing fallout, for up to 30 days.

<p>This is no luxurious shelter. 'The Detachment Hotel', as the bunker was no doubt half-jokingly called, wouldn't have won any stars, its spartan facilities not stretching much further than some bunkbeds, a decontamination shower, radio, desk and rocking chair for the president to relieve his chronic back pain. There wasn't even a functioning toilet installed.</p>

This is no luxurious shelter. 'The Detachment Hotel', as the bunker was no doubt half-jokingly called, wouldn't have won any stars, its spartan facilities not stretching much further than some bunkbeds, a decontamination shower, radio, desk and rocking chair for the president to relieve his chronic back pain. There wasn't even a functioning toilet installed.

<p>10 months after the bunker was built, the Cuban Missile Crisis flared up and America was the closest it has ever come to nuclear catastrophe. Thankfully, the unthinkable was averted and JFK never had to use his Florida bunker. After his assassination in 1963, the bunker was abandoned. It opened to the public in the late 1990s but shut down in 2017, as the site had deteriorated. However, restoration work is underway, and the bunker is expected to reopen in 2024 or 2025.</p>

10 months after the bunker was built, the Cuban Missile Crisis flared up and America was the closest it has ever come to nuclear catastrophe. Thankfully, the unthinkable was averted and JFK never had to use his Florida bunker.

After Kennedy's assassination in 1963, the bunker was abandoned. It opened to the public in the late 1990s but shut down in 2017, as the site had deteriorated. Restoration work is now underway, although it will reportedly take millions of dollars and several years before the bunker is ready to reopen.

<p>If JFK's holiday home in Palm Beach was the Winter White House, his family's compound in Hyannis Port, Cape Cod was certainly the Summer White House. Kennedy's parents, Joseph P. and Rose, bought a cottage on the beach in the 1920s and JFK spent his summers there along with his siblings. </p> <p>Over the years, the Massachusetts estate expanded to encompass six acres and three houses. JFK is pictured here at the Kennedy compound with his then-fiancée Jacqueline Bouvier in June 1953. </p>

JFK's nuclear shelter, Massachusetts, USA

If JFK's holiday home in Palm Beach was the Winter White House, his family's compound in Hyannis Port, Cape Cod was certainly the Summer White House. Kennedy's parents, Joseph P. and Rose, bought a cottage on the beach in the 1920s and JFK spent his summers there along with his siblings.

Over the years, the Massachusetts estate expanded to encompass six acres and three houses. JFK is pictured here at the Kennedy compound with his then-fiancée Jacqueline Bouvier in June 1953.

<p>The young politician used the family compound as a base for his 1960 presidential campaign, and he continued to holiday there after he took office the following year. As a result, it was decided that a bunker should be built nearby in case of a nuclear attack.</p> <p>In 1962, a shelter was created beneath the Tom Nevers Naval Facility (pictured from above) on Nantucket island. Just 30 miles south of Cape Cod, it was close enough that Kennedy and his family could be whisked away there by helicopter or submarine in an emergency.</p>

The young politician used the family compound as a base for his 1960 presidential campaign, and he continued to holiday there after he took office the following year. As a result, it was decided that a bunker should be built nearby in case of a nuclear attack.

In 1962, a shelter was created beneath the Tom Nevers Naval Facility (pictured from above) on Nantucket island. Just 30 miles south of Cape Cod, it was close enough that Kennedy and his family could be whisked away there by helicopter or submarine in an emergency.

<p>This rusty old door, set into a grassy hillock, is one of the few remaining hints at how important the base once was. Luckily, we're able to see inside, thanks to these haunting images captured by photographer <a href="https://www.kitnoble.com/">Kit Noble</a>. </p> <p>The shelter was built around a long passageway, which led to a gathering space, a mechanical room and a room with decontamination showers to wash off any lingering contaminants.</p>

This rusty old door, set into a grassy hillock, is one of the few remaining hints at how important the base once was. Luckily, we're able to see inside, thanks to these haunting images captured by photographer Kit Noble .

The shelter was built around a long passageway, which led to a gathering space, a mechanical room and a room with decontamination showers to wash off any lingering contaminants.

<p>The bunker was erected quickly. Ideally, it would have been built deep underground, but as Nantucket is a relatively small island, digging down meant hitting water. Instead, the shelter was made up of Quonset huts; prefabricated structures that were developed during the Second World War. Earth was then piled on top of the huts and scrub was left to grow over the shelter, camouflaging the site from any prying Soviet spies. </p> <p>While that doesn't sound like much, “a shelter only needs three feet of dirt on top, and you can stay there safely until the radiation levels have come down,” bunker-building expert <a href="https://www.bradleygarrett.com/bunker/">Bradley Garrett</a> told the <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-jfks-secret-doomsday-bunker-180981574/"><em>Smithsonian Magazine</em></a>.</p> <p><strong>Liking this? Click on the Follow button above for more great stories from loveEXPLORING</strong></p>

The bunker was erected quickly. Ideally, it would have been built deep underground, but as Nantucket is a relatively small island, digging down meant hitting water. Instead, the shelter was made up of Quonset huts; prefabricated structures that were developed during the Second World War. Earth was then piled on top of the huts and scrub was left to grow over the shelter, camouflaging the site from any prying Soviet spies.

While that doesn't sound like much, “a shelter only needs three feet of dirt on top, and you can stay there safely until the radiation levels have come down,” bunker-building expert Bradley Garrett told the Smithsonian Magazine .

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<p>The 1,900-square-foot bunker could have housed up to 30 people in an emergency. Thankfully though, JFK never had the need to enter the bunker – let alone descend this rickety-looking ladder. Living conditions were sparse inside and the escapees would have had to use portable toilets due to the lack of permanent bathroom facilities. </p> <p>We can't imagine Jackie would have relished the prospect of bunker life, although the couple's two children would have most likely found it an adventure.</p>

The 1,900-square-foot bunker could have housed up to 30 people in an emergency. Thankfully though, JFK never had the need to enter the bunker – let alone descend this rickety-looking ladder. Living conditions were sparse inside and the escapees would have had to use portable toilets due to the lack of permanent bathroom facilities.

We can't imagine Jackie would have relished the prospect of bunker life, although the couple's two children would have most likely found it an adventure.

<p>Today, the former naval site consists of a playground and two baseball pitches. The only signs of its former identity are a disused guard box and a grassy mound with a rusty door, which leads down into the abandoned bunker.</p> <p>Just yards along the beach lie the large, expensive holiday homes that Nantucket is known for, complete with sprawling gardens and sparkling swimming pools – a far cry from the sparsely furnished shelter that lies beneath the ground.</p>

Today, the former naval site consists of a playground and two baseball pitches. The only signs of its former identity are a disused guard box and a grassy mound with a rusty door, which leads down into the abandoned bunker.

Just yards along the beach lie the large, expensive holiday homes that Nantucket is known for, complete with sprawling gardens and sparkling swimming pools – a far cry from the sparsely furnished shelter that lies beneath the ground.

<p>June 1938 saw construction begin on an underground complex 10 feet beneath the Treasury building in London's Whitehall, to enable the British government to function during air raids.</p> <p>The two-storey shelter was completed in August 1939, a week before the UK declared war on Germany. Following his appointment as prime minister, Winston Churchill visited for the first time in May 1940.</p>

Winston Churchill’s Cabinet War Rooms bunker, London, UK

June 1938 saw construction begin on an underground complex 10 feet beneath the Treasury building in London's Whitehall, to enable the British government to function during air raids.

The two-storey shelter was completed in August 1939, a week before the UK declared war on Germany. Following his appointment as prime minister, Winston Churchill visited for the first time in May 1940.

The complex has been preserved since the end of its use, following the cessation of Germany's bombing raids on London in 1945.

Upon entering the Cabinet Room, the cigar-smoking Allied leader declared: “This is the room from which I will direct the war.” And he wasn't wrong. Churchill's War Cabinet met there a total of 115 times to discuss everything from the Dunkirk evacuations to the Pearl Harbor attacks, with the space most frequented during the Blitz and V-1 flying bomb attacks.

<p>A bomb landed near the entrance of the building in September 1940, and when it was discovered the complex would not be able to survive a direct hit, the War Rooms were reinforced with a layer of concrete five feet thick, dubbed 'the Slab'. The complex was later extended to encompass 21 rooms. Here's the Map Room, where, together with his cabinet and generals, Churchill charted the enemy's movements.</p>

A bomb landed near the entrance of the building in September 1940 and when it was discovered the complex would not be able to survive a direct hit, the War Rooms were reinforced with a layer of concrete five feet thick, dubbed 'the Slab.' The complex was later extended to encompass 21 rooms.

Here's the Map Room, where, together with his cabinet and generals, Churchill charted the enemy's movements.

<p>Churchill had a love-hate relationship with the place, according to War Rooms expert <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hidden-story-life-winston-churchills-9103811">Jonathan Asbury</a>, and while he enjoyed showing off the complex to visitors, he loathed being cooped up there during bombing raids. Despite having his very own office/bedroom, Churchill only slept in the facility for three nights in total during the war, preferring to brave it in <a href="https://www.loveproperty.com/gallerylist/110588/boris-johnsons-homes-from-downing-street-flat-to-an-oxford-farmhouse">10 Downing Street</a> or the residence's annex.</p>

Churchill had a love-hate relationship with the place, according to War Rooms expert Jonathan Asbury , and while he enjoyed showing off the complex to visitors, he loathed being cooped up there during bombing raids.

Despite having his very own office/bedroom, Churchill only slept in the facility for three nights in total during the war, preferring to brave it in 10 Downing Street or the residence's annexe.

Mrs Churchill also had a bedroom in the complex, though it was mainly used by the couple's daughter, Mary.

Following the Second World War, the facility was meticulously preserved and maintained before it was opened to the public in 1984, and the attraction now incorporates a museum celebrating Churchill's life.

Battle of Britain Bunker, London, UK

The Battle of Britain Bunker at RAF Uxbridge, on the outskirts of London in the UK, had an equal if not even more crucial role in the war effort.

Impenetrable to the bombs of the era – unlike the War Rooms early in the conflict – the facility, which was completed mere days before the outbreak of the Second World War, was constructed 60 feet underground and protected by a huge layer of concrete.

<p>The fortress-like installation served as the top secret nerve centre of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, which raged from 10 July to 31 October 1940.</p> <p>It housed the Operations Room, which was actually a series of interconnected rooms over two levels, accessible via a staircase of 76 steps that was heavily guarded, for obvious reasons.</p>

The fortress-like installation served as the top secret nerve centre of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, which raged from 10 July to 31 October 1940.

It housed the Operations Room, which was actually a series of interconnected rooms over two levels, accessible via a staircase of 76 steps that was heavily guarded, for obvious reasons.

<p>A hive of activity, the Plotting Room was where members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) tracked incoming Nazi raids and friendly aircraft positions on the supersized plotting table. Meanwhile, RAF officials coordinated squadron movements with the help of a tote board and displays showing weather conditions and the location of balloon defenses.</p>

A hive of activity, the Plotting Room was where members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) tracked incoming Nazi raids and friendly aircraft positions on the supersized plotting table.

Meanwhile, RAF officials coordinated squadron movements with the help of a tote board and displays showing weather conditions and the location of balloon defences.

<p>Overseen by the commander from this upper-level room, the air force personnel worked under intense pressure and had to make split-second life-or-death decisions for hours on end. After visiting the bunker at the height of the battle in September 1940, Churchill was so moved, he uttered these immortal words: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”</p>

Overseen by the commander from this upper-level room, the air force personnel worked under intense pressure and had to make split-second life-or-death decisions for hours on end.

After visiting the bunker at the height of the battle in September 1940, Churchill was so moved, he uttered these immortal words: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

<p>The <a href="https://www.loveproperty.com/gallerylist/55666/inside-the-secret-bunker-where-only-billionaires-can-afford-to-live">covert bunker</a> was also instrumental in defending London during the Blitz and ensuring Allied soldiers taking part in the Normandy landings were protected from Nazi bombs. Following the Second World War, the facility fell into disrepair. Fortunately, the Operations Room was restored to its original state in 1975 and a decade later the bunker was opened as a museum, which recently underwent a major revamp.</p>

The covert bunker was also instrumental in defending London during the Blitz and ensuring Allied soldiers taking part in the Normandy landings were protected from Nazi bombs.

Following the Second World War, the facility fell into disrepair. Fortunately, the Operations Room was restored to its original state in 1975 and a decade later the bunker was opened as a museum, with an above-ground visitor centre added in 2018.

<p>Rome's splendid Villa Torlonia was the official residence of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, who lived in the property with his wife and five children from 1925, paying a peppercorn rent of just one lira a year. The family are pictured here outside the swish neo-classical palazzo in the early 1930s.</p>

Benito Mussolini's Villa Torlonia bunkers, Rome, Italy

Rome's splendid Villa Torlonia was the official residence of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, who lived in the property with his wife and five children from 1925, paying a peppercorn rent of just one lira a year.

The family is pictured here outside the swish neoclassical palazzo in the early 1930s.

After Italy entered the Second World War in 1940 on the side of Germany, it was only a matter of time before Allied forces would start bombing Rome.

Mussolini acted tough and defiant, vowing: “I'll wait for the bombs to come to my balcony, I'll never go underground.” But in reality, Il Duce made a beeline for his bunker at the very inkling of an impending raid.

<p>The first Villa Torlonia bunker was repurposed from a wine cellar under the estate's lake in 1940. Since it was located some distance away from the main residence, a second shelter with thicker walls and anti-gas steel doors was constructed directly under the mansion the following year. Then, in late 1942, work began on a state-of-the-art facility kitted out with the latest technology and mod cons.</p>

The first Villa Torlonia bunker was repurposed from a wine cellar under the estate's lake in 1940. Since it was located some distance away from the main residence, a second shelter with thicker walls and anti-gas steel doors was constructed directly under the mansion the following year.

In late 1942, work began on a state-of-the-art facility kitted out with the latest technology and mod cons.

<p>Mussolini had seen Hitler's array of <a href="https://www.loveproperty.com/gallerylist/95780/dream-homes-for-sale-with-their-own-private-bunkers">wow-factor bunkers</a> and was green with envy. Desperate to keep up with his fellow fascist tyrant, he went for the most advanced installation money could buy. The cross-shaped facility was built more than 20 feet under the villa's piazza and fitted with 13-foot-thick concrete walls that could resist the most potent conventional bombs.</p>

Mussolini had seen Hitler's array of wow-factor bunkers and was green with envy. Desperate to keep up with his fellow fascist tyrant, he went for the most advanced installation money could buy.

The cross-shaped facility was built more than 20 feet under the villa's piazza and fitted with 13-foot-thick concrete walls that could resist the most potent conventional bombs.

<p>Mussolini was ousted from power and arrested in July 1943, and the third and final Villa Torlonia bunker was never completed. The estate was eventually bought by the Municipality of Rome and turned into a museum. The bunkers were initially opened to the public in 2006, but had to close for a time due to high radon levels, and levels of the radioactive gas are strictly monitored to this day.</p>

Mussolini was ousted from power and arrested in July 1943 and the third and final Villa Torlonia bunker was never completed. The estate was eventually bought by the Municipality of Rome and turned into a museum.

The bunkers were initially opened to the public in 2006 but had to close for a time due to high radon levels. They reopened in 2014 and levels of the radioactive gas are strictly monitored to this day.

<p>Hitler spent much of the Second World War—more than 800 days in fact—at the Wolfsschanze<em>,</em> or Wolf's Lair, his Eastern Front HQ, where he lay low for much of the time in a heavily fortified bunker. Located deep in the Masurian woods in what was then East Prussia, the sinister complex was constructed under a veil of secrecy and completed in 1941, with the murderous despot arriving not long after.</p>

Adolf Hitler's Wolf's Lair bunker near Gierłoż, present-day Poland

Hitler spent much of the Second World War – more than 800 days in fact – at the Wolfsschanze , or Wolf's Lair, his Eastern Front HQ, where he lay low for much of the time in a heavily fortified bunker.

Located deep in the Masurian woods in what was then East Prussia, the sinister complex was constructed under a veil of secrecy and completed in 1941, with the despot arriving not long after.

<p>Tucked away in the forest were an astonishing 200 buildings, including barracks, offices, a movie theater, power plants, a railway station, two airports and bunkers, of course, for Hitler and his inner circle. Within the confines of the Wolf's Lair, the Nazi leadership orchestrated the Holocaust, along with brutal military campaigns like the Battle of Stalingrad, aided and abetted by over 2,000 military staff and support personnel.</p>

Tucked away in the forest were an astonishing 200 buildings, including barracks, offices, a cinema, power plants, a railway station, two airports and bunkers, of course, for Hitler and his inner circle.

Within the confines of the Wolf's Lair, the Nazi leadership orchestrated the Holocaust, along with brutal military campaigns like the Battle of Stalingrad, aided and abetted by over 2,000 military staff and support personnel.

<p>As the war dragged on and the tide turned against Germany, Hitler became increasingly paranoid. Security in the complex was exceptionally tight and the Nazi leader even had a team of 15 young women <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hitler-s-food-taster-reveals-the-horrors-of-the-wolf-s-lair-9738880.html">tasting his food</a> for poison. But his fears only grew, and enormous sums of money were spent upgrading the bunker, which ended up becoming a large, fortress-like structure with numerous rooms, halls and passages.</p>

As the war dragged on and the tide turned against Germany, Hitler became increasingly paranoid. Security in the complex was exceptionally tight and the Nazi leader even had a team of 15 young women tasting his food for poison. But his fears only grew, and enormous sums of money were spent upgrading the bunker, which ended up becoming a large, fortress-like structure with numerous rooms, halls and passages.

<p>Hitler's suspicions were validated on 20 July 1944 when a group of high-ranking Wehrmacht officers, led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, attempted to <a href="https://wolfsschanze.pl/en/assassination-attempt/">assassinate</a> him by placing a briefcase bomb near his desk in the Wolf Lair's conference room. The briefcase was moved just before the device detonated, which saved Hitler's life. The original plan was to plant the device in the bunker, which would almost certainly have killed him.</p>

Hitler's suspicions were validated on 20 July 1944 when a group of high-ranking Wehrmacht officers, led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate him by placing a briefcase bomb near his desk in the Wolf Lair's conference room. The briefcase was moved just before the device detonated, which saved Hitler's life.

The original plan was to plant the device in the bunker, which would almost certainly have killed him.

<p>With the Red Army closing in, Hitler bid farewell to the Wolf's Lair in November 1944, and tons of explosives were used to demolish the complex. Yet most of the structures were only partially destroyed, due to their robustness. Now attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors a year, their development as a tourist attraction has been <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49111787">highly controversial</a>.</p>

With the Red Army closing in, Hitler bid farewell to the Wolf's Lair in November 1944 and tons of explosives were used to demolish the complex. Yet most of the structures were only partially destroyed due to their robustness.

Now attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors a year, the development of the complex as a tourist attraction has been highly controversial .

<p>Back in Berlin, Hitler retreated to his bunker near the Reich Chancellery on 16 January 1945, as the Allied forces were advancing on the capital and the German military was on its last legs. Completed in 1944, the Führerbunker was built 28 feet below ground and enveloped in 13-foot-thick concrete to withstand the most destructive conventional bombs.</p>

Adolf Hitler’s Führerbunker, Berlin, Germany

Back in Berlin, Hitler retreated to his bunker near the Reich Chancellery on 16 January 1945, as the Allied forces were advancing on the capital and the German military was on its last legs.

Completed in 1944, the Führerbunker was built 28 feet below ground and enveloped in 13-foot-thick concrete to withstand the most destructive conventional bombs.

<p>The <a href="https://www.loveproperty.com/gallerylist/52982/12-spectacular-homes-hidden-from-the-world">hidden complex</a> spanned 3,000 square feet and consisted of 30 small rooms, including a conference room, map room, offices and bedrooms for Hitler and his inner circle, including his partner, Eva Braun. The bunker was decked out with fine furnishings and oil paintings, but the luxuries did little to improve the ambiance, which became increasingly foreboding and claustrophobic.</p>

The hidden complex spanned 3,000 square feet and consisted of 30 small rooms, including a conference room, map room, offices and bedrooms for Hitler and his inner circle, including his partner, Eva Braun.

The bunker was decked out with fine furnishings and oil paintings, but the luxuries did little to improve the ambience, which became increasingly foreboding and claustrophobic.

<p>This model of Hitler's study—the scene of their joint suicide—is on display in the Berlin Story museum. It was in this room that Eva Braun and Hitler both took cyanide capsules, and the Nazi leader also shot himself, on 30 April 1945. The couple were married in the bunker's map room the day before in a somber ceremony followed by an even gloomier reception, both aware of Soviet troops drawing ever closer.</p>

This model of Hitler's study is on display in the Berlin Story Museum. It was in this room that Eva Braun and Hitler met their end on 30 April 1945. The couple was married in the bunker's map room the day before in a sombre ceremony followed by an even gloomier reception, both aware of Soviet troops drawing ever closer.

Johanna Ruf, who died in 2023 aged 94, is believed to have been the last witness of the final days in the bunker. Then a 15-year-old nurse working in a makeshift hospital adjoining the shelter, she remembered Joseph Goebbels giving her a pep talk during the final weeks of the war.

"He said, ‘Final victory is at the door’," she recalled. "But only the Russians were at the door."

<p>Shortly after they were declared dead, the Red Army began shelling the area around the Reich Chancellery. This photo shows Private First Class Richard Blust of Michigan examining the bunker following their deaths. A fire had destroyed much of the room's contents, but you can still make out an ornate gilded sofa.</p>

Ruf had been due to receive an award from Hitler himself, but it was cancelled at short notice and she later discovered the Führer was dead. Shortly afterward, the Red Army began shelling the area around the Reich Chancellery.

This photo shows Private First Class Richard Blust of Michigan examining the bunker. A fire had destroyed much of the room's contents, but you can still make out an ornate gilded sofa.

<p>Following the war, the Soviets razed the Reich Chancellery buildings, but the bunker remained more or less intact. A section of the facility was demolished during the 1990s, with the rest sealed up to avoid creating a shrine to Nazism. Today the remnants of Hitler's Führerbunker lurk beneath a nondescript residential car park.</p>

Following the war, the Soviets razed the Reich Chancellery buildings, but the bunker remained more or less intact. A section of the facility was demolished during the 1990s, with the rest sealed up to avoid creating a shrine to Nazism.

Today the remnants of Hitler's Führerbunker lurk beneath a nondescript residential car park.

<p>During the Second World War, Japanese emperor Hirohito sought refuge in a concrete bunker 60 feet under the library of the sprawling Imperial Palace complex in Tokyo. The monarch hunkered down in the shelter during the firebombing of the city in March 1945, and moved in full-time two months later, after much of the palace had been obliterated during a devastating raid.</p>

Emperor Hirohito's Imperial Palace bunker, Tokyo, Japan

During the Second World War, Japanese emperor Hirohito sought refuge in a concrete bunker 60 feet under the library of the sprawling Imperial Palace complex in Tokyo.

The monarch hunkered down in the shelter during the firebombing of the city in March 1945, and moved in full-time two months later, after much of the palace had been obliterated during a devastating raid.

<p>The spacious bunker housed offices, communications and machinery rooms, toilets and bedrooms and living areas presumably for the royal family. The most important space, though, was the conference room, where in August 1945 Hirohito recorded his famous speech announcing Japan's surrender in the Second World War.</p>

The spacious bunker housed offices, communications and machinery rooms, toilets and bedrooms and living areas presumably for the royal family.

The most important space, though, was the conference room, where in August 1945 Hirohito recorded his famous speech announcing Japan's surrender in the Second World War.

<p>The decision to surrender came after the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Russia declared war on Japan, spelling the nation's wholesale defeat. After the war, Hirohito continued to live in the bunker until 1961. Thereafter, it was left to rot, with seemingly no effort made to preserve the building. In 2015, the Imperial Household Agency released the first pics of the shelter in 50 years.</p>

The decision to surrender came after the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Russia declared war on Japan, spelling the nation's wholesale defeat.

After the war, Hirohito continued to live in the bunker until 1961. Thereafter, it was left to rot, with seemingly no effort made to preserve the building. In 2015, the Imperial Household Agency released the first pics of the shelter in 50 years.

<p>As you can see from this shot of the desolate passageway, the bunker's anti-gas blast doors are covered in rust and rising damp stains the walls. Still, there's very little in the way of severe structural damage, judging by the picture. This <a href="https://www.loveproperty.com/gallerylist/91803/awesome-abandoned-bunkers-for-sale">abandoned bunker</a> was certainly built to last.</p>

As you can see from this shot of the desolate passageway, the bunker's anti-gas blast doors are covered in rust and rising damp stains the walls. Still, there's very little in the way of severe structural damage, judging by the picture. This abandoned bunker was certainly built to last.

<p>All the same, the conference room where Hirohito recorded the fateful speech is in a much poorer state, with the floorboards and wooden wall panels disintegrating from decades of rot. Unlike other iconic bunkers around the world, the chances of this one being restored for public viewing seem slim, and the facility will probably deteriorate further as the years go by.</p>

All the same, the conference room where Hirohito recorded the fateful speech is in a much poorer state, with the floorboards and wooden wall panels disintegrating from decades of rot.

Unlike other iconic bunkers around the world, the chances of this one being restored for public viewing seem slim, and the facility will probably deteriorate further as the years go by.

<p>In the late 1950s, a team from the US Army Corps of engineers was tasked with scouting a location for a bunker that could house members of Congress in the event of a nuclear attack. They settled on the high-end Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, which is easily accessed from Washington, DC but far enough to offer guaranteed protection from a nuclear attack on the Capitol.</p>

US Congress Cold War bunker, West Virginia, USA

In the late 1950s, a team from the US Army Corps of engineers was tasked with scouting a location for a bunker that could house members of Congress in the event of a nuclear attack. They settled on the high-end Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, which is easily accessed from Washington, DC but far enough to offer guaranteed protection from a nuclear attack on the Capitol.

With secrecy paramount, work began on the facility – later codenamed Project Greek Island – in 1957. Billed as an extension to the hotel, its true purpose was kept strictly under wraps, but workers and locals alike had their suspicions, with the colossal volume of concrete poured into the site a dead giveaway.

Completed in 1962 just in time for the Cuban Missile Crisis at a reported cost of $14 million, which is around $144 million in today's money, the installation is a sight to behold.

<p>Buried 720 feet underground and safeguarded by gigantic blast doors and layers of reinforced concrete, the bunker features two levels and stretches over 112,544 square feet. Hidden in plain sight, the cavernous halls would have been used for sessions of Congress. They were integrated into the hotel, and would have been sealed off had nuclear war broken out.</p>

Buried 720 feet underground and safeguarded by gigantic blast doors and layers of reinforced concrete, the bunker features two levels and stretches over 112,544 square feet.

Hidden in plain sight, the cavernous halls would have been used for sessions of Congress. They were integrated into the hotel, and would have been sealed off had nuclear war broken out.

<p>The rest of the <a href="https://www.loveproperty.com/gallerylist/91165/tour-the-cold-war-nuclear-missile-bunker-untouched-for-60-years">Cold War bunker</a> is situated beyond the long entrance tunnel. This part of the facility houses the decontamination room, 18 dorms with 30 bunk beds a piece, a kitchen stocked with six months' supply of food, a 400-seat cafeteria and a TV conference room packed with broadcasting equipment that originally featured a backdrop of the Capitol building.</p>

The rest of the Cold War bunker is situated beyond the long entrance tunnel. This part of the facility houses the decontamination room, 18 dorms with 30 bunk beds a piece, a kitchen stocked with six months' supply of food, a 400-seat cafeteria and a TV conference room packed with broadcasting equipment that originally featured a backdrop of the Capitol building.

<p>There's also a hospital, pharmacy and even a jail packed with straitjackets. The rumors that a mysterious government facility existed under the resort were confirmed in 1992 when <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/july/25/brier1.htm"><em>The Washington Post</em> ran an article</a> exposing the bunker. With the secret out, it was promptly declassified and decommissioned, and these days serves as a data storage center, as well as a tourist attraction.</p>

There's also a hospital, pharmacy and even a jail packed with straitjackets. The rumours that a mysterious government facility existed under the resort were confirmed in 1992 when The Washington Post ran an article exposing the bunker.

Once the secret was out, it was promptly declassified and decommissioned. These days it serves as a data storage centre, as well as a tourist attraction.

<p>Almost a decade before the JFK and Congress bunkers were built, Soviet leader Josef Stalin ordered the construction of a top-secret facility he could escape to with senior government officials if Moscow were nuked. Located within a hill within walking distance of the Kremlin and built 197 feet below ground, the 75,350-square-foot installation was eventually finished in 1956, three years after Stalin's death.</p>

Josef Stalin's Bunker-42, Moscow, Russia

Almost a decade before the JFK and Congress bunkers were built, Soviet leader Josef Stalin ordered the construction of a top-secret facility he could escape to with senior government officials if Moscow were nuked.

Located within a hill within walking distance of the Kremlin and built 197 feet below ground, the 75,350-square-foot installation was eventually finished in 1956, three years after Stalin's death.

<p>The bunker was built in a similar way to the Moscow Metro, and consists of four steel-ringed tubes, each 500 feet long, that are connected by narrow tunnels. The main entry point was through a covert tunnel in Taganskaya metro station, but the bunker could also be accessed via a fake apartment building concealing a stairwell and a 20-foot-thick protective concrete dome.</p>

The bunker was built in a similar way to the Moscow Metro, and consists of four steel-ringed tubes, each 500 feet long, that are connected by narrow tunnels.

The main entry point was through a covert tunnel in Taganskaya metro station, but the bunker could also be accessed via a fake apartment building concealing a stairwell and a 20-foot-thick protective concrete dome.

Following its completion, the ultra-secure facility was put to use as a command base for the Soviet Union's nuclear forces.

Equipped with air purifiers, deep wells for clean drinking water and other life-support systems, as well as plenty of storage space for food, the nuclear bunker could sustain 3,000 personnel for a period of three months.

<p>Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, is said to have hunkered down in the bunker during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Apart from that, little of note appears to have occurred in the facility, and as nuclear technology became more and more advanced, it became increasingly obsolete and insignificant. Maintenance fell by the wayside and by the late 1980s the installation was seriously rundown.</p>

Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, is said to have hunkered down in the bunker during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Apart from that, little of note appears to have occurred in the facility, and as nuclear technology became more and more advanced, it became increasingly obsolete and insignificant.

Maintenance fell by the wayside and by the late 1980s the installation was seriously rundown.

<p>Following the collapse of the USSR, the facility, which was originally codenamed Facility-02, was declassified. In 2006, the Russian government sold Bunker-42 to a private company, which converted the installation into a museum and entertainment complex which opened that same year.</p> <p>Loved this? Take a tour of more <a href="https://bit.ly/3T8GlwQ"><strong>fascinating bunkers around the world</strong></a></p>

Following the collapse of the USSR, the facility, which was originally codenamed Facility-02, was declassified. In 2006, the Russian government sold Bunker-42 to a private company, which converted the installation into a museum and entertainment complex which opened that same year.

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