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A viral video exposé of a secret castle has sparked protests and questions about style
When I began teaching a class on architecture and film a few years ago, I did not imagine just how urgently relevant the subject would become. Then the coronavirus plague arrived, and all of a sudden every interaction in our lives seemed to be mediated by screens, and the idea of work and the city in the Zoom era was something we were all forced to address.
And then came last month, when an architectural documentary typically, the rather esoteric stuff of public broadcasting sparked a national reckoning with a ruthless authoritarian regime.
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Trump purchased Mar-a-Lago for $10 million in 1985 from the estate of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the owner of General Foods. The 126-room mansion had deteriorated after her death in 1973, when she left it to the U.S. government as a possible presidential vacation home. The government gave it back in 1981.
After Trump bought it, he spent millions upgrading the property while living there part-time.
By the early 1990s, however, Trump was in financial distress. Real estate prices dropped and several of his businesses flopped, including a New Jersey casino. He told the town he could no longer afford the $3 million annual upkeep and it was unfair that he shouldered the costs alone. He proposed subdividing the property and building mansions. The town rejected the proposal.
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