85-15 Wareham Place

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85-15 Wareham Place
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85-15 Wareham Place
General information
TypeHouse
Architectural styleTudor
Location Jamaica Estates
Town or city Queens, New York City
CountryUnited States
Coordinates 40°43′01″N73°47′09″W / 40.71704°N 73.78581°W / 40.71704; -73.78581
Completed1940
OwnerMichael Davis

85-15 Wareham Place is a house in the Jamaica Estates, Queens neighborhood in New York City. It has been cited as the childhood home of Donald Trump. [1] The 1950 Census lists the family living at the Wareham Place address was 4 years old. At some point that year, the family moved to a larger house at 85-14 Midland Parkway on the other side of the same block. [2] [3]

The Tudor-style house, built in either the 1920s [3] or in 1940 [4] (sources differ) by Trump's father, Fred Trump, [5] is located in the upper-middle-class neighborhood of Jamaica Estates. [6] The house was put up for sale in July 2016, during the presidential campaign. [1] It was scheduled to be sold at auction in October, but the seller took it off the market. [2] While it was initially listed at $1.65 million, in December, the house was purchased by Manhattan real estate investor Michael Davis for $1,390,500. Davis initially remained anonymous, and having never seen the house, arranged to have it sold at auction on January 17, 2017, three days before Trump's inauguration on January 20. [7] According to the terms of the auction, the seller had five days to consider the bids. [8] According to The New York Times , it was last auctioned for $2.14 million to "a limited-liability company represented by a law firm that specializes in Chinese foreign investment" in March 2017. [9] [10]

In 2017, the house was listed on the house rental service Airbnb for $725 per night. [11] After an attempt to sell it for $2.9 million in February 2019, another auction, which was planned to conclude on November 14, [9] failed as no qualified bids came forward. [4]

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