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Built for the publisher of the Coeur d'Alene Press and 18 other daily and weekly newspapers in Idaho and Montana, Duane Hagadone, (b. 1933) this house contained 32,016 square feet, four times the legal limit for houses built in the Santa Rosa Mountains outside of Palm Desert, CA. Hagadone lobbied city officials for an exemption from this space ordinance in 2004. Once built, however, citizens of Palm Desert soon objected to what they saw as an obtrusive presence marring the hillside. All told, 64,000 square feet had been graded to enable exterior gardens and structures to be built around the enormous house.

The original design called for the construction of a house with five wings, interior streams, and large aquariums. The dwelling possessed two personal lap pools, an infinity pool, and patios and terraces that increased the amount of square footage occupied.

PCAD id: 8902