There’s a new president in California.

Golden State’s famous White House replica It sold for $23 million on Wednesday.

The 24,400-square-foot Georgian Colonial-era mansion known as the “Western White House” was listed for sale in June 2023 and sold for well below its original asking price of $38.9 million.

“This sprawling, four-story, Julia Morgan-designed home was created by George Hearst in 1930 as a replica of the White House,” said Alex Buljan of real estate firm Compass. Sacramento Bee.

“We are delighted that this historic Hillisborough property has found the private buyer it deserves.”

The San Francisco Area Bay mansion looks much different than when it was last put up for sale.

Previous owners Mehrdad Elie and his wife, Neda Elie, who bought the property for $15 million in 2022, renovated all nine bathrooms, tore down walls in four rooms to create a large kitchen, installed new hardwood floors and added a movie theater.

The $6 million renovation still adheres to the original architectural details, according to Compass.

The D.C.-inspired West White House features a wood-paneled “Oval Office,” a rose garden, and plenty of impressive columns.

It also has 11 bedrooms, a fitness centre, swimming pool and wine cellar.

The house dates back to 1878, when it was built for a real estate developer and cattle rancher named William Henry Howard, who later sold it to Charles Frederick Crocker, heir to the Central Pacific Railroad fortune.

In 1897, about 10 years after Crocker’s death, the family sold the house without the land underneath it to a developer, who moved the mansion a half-mile away, leaving it on 2.9 acres.

It eventually fell into the hands of George Hearst, son of media mogul William Randolph Hearst; In 1930, Hearst commissioned architect Julia Morgan to rebuild the house and transform it into the Western White House.