12. Fairfield, NY – $198 Million
Herkimer County may not sound high end, but the upstate New York location is home to the town of Fairfield, long a resort spot for those seeking to escape the confines of the urban spaces of the Big Apple and its environs. It was here that Ira Rennert, American investor, and business giant, decided to build one of the largest and most lavish private homes in the United States—a country already known for thinking that “bigger is better.”
The 62,000 square foot house features 39 bedrooms, 29 bathrooms, a 100 car garage, a theater that seats several hundred people, a basketball court, a 91 foot long dining room table, and probably a few swimming pools thrown in for the heck of it. Rennert is pretty careful about his privacy, so we don’t know too much about the interior, but what we do know is enough to pop a few monocles.