Step inside the most expensive home for sale in the Seattle area - a $45 million waterfront mansion that's minutes from Bill Gates' house and once housed a $317 million art collection

Compass

A rooftop deck with a fireplace and native plant garden overlooks Lake Washington.

• A $45 million ultra-modern mansion is the most expensive home in the Seattle area.
• The home sits on the shores of Lake Washington in affluent Hunts Point, about a 20-minute drive from downtown Seattle.
• The 9,420-square-foot, three-bedroom mansion includes 300 feet of prime waterfront, a private boat dock, and a rooftop deck complete with a fireplace and native plant garden.
• It once housed a legendary $317 million art collection.

Los Angeles is typically known for its sprawling, multi-million-dollar mansions, but it's not the only city that has them.

In Washington state, an ultra-modern waterfront mansion is selling for $45 million, making it the most expensive home currently for sale in the Seattle area. It sits on the shores of Lake Washington in Hunts Point, a small town about a 20-minute drive from downtown Seattle.

The peninsula community also neighbors Medina, a wealthy Seattle suburb that's home to billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.

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The house belonged to Barney A. Ebsworth, a travel entrepreneur and legendary art collector who kept pieces by Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and more in the Hunts Point house. The collection was auctioned off after Ebsworth's death in April 2018 for more than $317 million.

Tere Foster of Compass holds the listing.

Here's a look inside the ultra-modern home.