{"id":119099,"date":"2025-01-15T12:22:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/15\/taylor-swift-is-expanding-her-rhode-island-last-great-american-dynasty-house\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T12:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:22:57","slug":"taylor-swift-is-expanding-her-rhode-island-last-great-american-dynasty-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/15\/taylor-swift-is-expanding-her-rhode-island-last-great-american-dynasty-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift is expanding her Rhode Island &#8216;last great american dynasty&#8217; house"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-14\/Getty_TaylorSwiftstandinginfrontofhousescreen_014524.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Emma McIntyre\/TAS24\/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> is having a marvelous time expanding everything.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor is adding on to Holiday House, her home in Rhode Island that inspired her<em> folklore<\/em> song &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2s5xdY6MCeI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>the last great american dynasty<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/story\/lifestyle\/2025\/01\/14\/taylor-swift-house-westerly-watch-hill-holiday-house\/77665853007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>The Providence Journal<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0reports that according to a building permit issued in December, the home, which is already 11,000 square feet, will be gaining a new bedroom and bathrooms, and the kitchen will undergo renovations.<\/p>\n<p>The planned bedroom is 16 feet by 24 feet; there&#8217;s no word on how many extra bathrooms are being added. That, along with the kitchen, is expected to cost $1.7 million for labor and materials.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor bought the house in 2013 for nearly $18 million and has thrown many star-studded parties there over the years. During one weekend in August 2024,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/everyone-who-joined-taylor-swift-travis-kelce-in-rhode-island-celebrity-guests-8701057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>People<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0TMZ\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Daily Mail\u00a0<\/em>reported that Taylor hosted her boyfriend, <strong>Travis Kelce<\/strong>,\u00a0and a bunch of other pals at the mansion, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2024\/08\/25\/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-blake-lively-birthday-beach-house\/#continued\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Blake Lively<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Ryan Reynolds<\/strong>; Travis&#8217; brother,\u00a0<strong>Jason<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and his wife,\u00a0<strong>Kylie<\/strong>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-13777089\/Bradley-Cooper-daughter-Taylor-Swift-party-Rhode-Island-mansion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Bradley Cooper<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and his daughter,\u00a0<strong>Lea<\/strong>, 7; and Chiefs quarterback\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/nfl\/article-13773859\/Taylor-Swift-Travis-Kelce-mansion-NFL-Chiefs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Patrick Mahomes<\/strong><\/a>, his wife,\u00a0<strong>Brittany<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and their daughter,\u00a0<strong>Sterling<\/strong>, 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last great american dynasty&#8221; is about\u00a0<strong>Rebekah Harkness<\/strong>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebekah_Harkness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>real-life woman<\/strong><\/a> who used to live at Holiday House and had, as Taylor sang, &#8220;a marvelous time ruining everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma McIntyre\/TAS24\/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift is having a marvelous time expanding everything. Taylor is adding on to Holiday House, her home in Rhode Island that inspired her folklore song &#8220;the last great american dynasty.&#8221;\u00a0The Providence Journal\u00a0reports that according to a building permit issued in December, the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/15\/taylor-swift-is-expanding-her-rhode-island-last-great-american-dynasty-house\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}