Iconic ‘Western White House’ finally sells after 16 months on the market for well below asking price

There’s a caller president successful California.

The Golden State’s celebrated White House replica sold Wednesday for a cool $23 million.

Known arsenic nan “Western White House,” nan 24,400-square-foot Georgian Colonial mansion was put connected nan marketplace successful June 2023 — and was sold good beneath its original $38.9 cardinal asking price.

“This sprawling, four-level, Julia Morgan-designed location was created arsenic a replica of nan White House by George Hearst successful 1930,” Alex Buljan of Compass existent property told the Sacramento Bee.

“We are delighted that this historical Hillisborough property has recovered nan typical purchaser that it deserves.”

The San Francisco Area Bay mansion looks very different from nan past clip it was put up for sale.

Previous owners Mehrdad Elie and his woman Neda Elie — who purchased nan spot for $15 cardinal successful 2022 — renovated each 9 bathrooms, knocked down nan walls of 4 rooms to create 1 ample kitchen, installed caller hardwood floors and added a movie theater.

The $6 cardinal fix-up still adheres to nan original architectural details, according to Compass.

Much for illustration its DC inspiration, nan Western White House has a wood-paneled “Oval Office,” a roseate plot and plentifulness of imposing columns.

It besides boasts 11 bedrooms, a fittingness center, a swimming excavation and a vino cellar.

The location dates to 1878, erstwhile it was built for a existent property developer and cattle rancher named William Henry Howard, who past sold it to Central Pacific Railroad luck heir Charles Frederick Crocker.

Roughly 10 years aft Crocker died, successful 1897, nan family sold nan location — without nan onshore underneath — to a contractor, who moved nan mansion a half-mile away, wherever it remains connected a 2.9-acre lot.

It yet fell into nan hands of George Hearst, nan boy of media magnate William Randolph Hearst, who successful 1930 tapped designer Julia Morgan to redo nan location — and toggle shape it into nan Western White House.