George W. Bush Crawford Ranch, Texas

George W. Bush became governor of Texas in 1994, and lived in the state-provided Governor’s Mansion in Austin. Towards the end of his term, he started looking for a more elaborate Texas spread to call his own, and in 1999 purchased a 1,500 acre hog farm in Crawford, down the road from Waco, known as the Prairie Chapel Ranch. He won the Presidency in 2000, and served for two terms, during which his ranch in Crawford became another Western White House, like Ronald Reagan’s and Lyndon Johnson’s ranches. He built several structures there while president, including the four-bedroom main house, designed by University of Texas professor and architect David Heymann, and a guest house. Other buildings on the property include a helicopter hangar, and an old farm house. After the presidency, George W. Bush bought a 8,500 square foot house in the Preston Hollow neighborhood in northern Dallas, an affluent neighborhood, where people like Ross Perot also have homes, though he continues to go to Crawford on weekends and holidays.