Editing Bedminster, New Jersey (section)

=="The Summer White House"==
Lamington Farm was purchased by Morgan Cowperthwaite, a New York insurance brokerage executive, in 1917.<ref name=Holson>Laura M. Holson, [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/style/president-trump-national-golf-club-bedminster-summer-white-house.html At the 'Summer White House,' You Are Never Far From a Trump Photo], ''New York Times'' (June 3, 2017).</ref> The [[Georgian Revival]] [[manor house]] was built in 1939.<ref name=Holson/> Cowperthwaite's heirs sold the property in 1981 to [[John Z. DeLorean]] and his wife [[Cristina Ferrare]] for $3.5 million.<ref name=Holson/> In 2000, National Fairways, a Connecticut-based golf course developer purchased the property at a bankruptcy auction for $15.25 million.<ref name=Holson/><ref name=NJHillsMedia>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newjerseyhills.com/trump-buying-bedminster-golf-course/article_1a108d11-e74a-56dd-9f9f-4b334ad03b2b.html|title=Trump Buying Bedminster Golf Course|publisher=New Jersey Hills Media Group|date=September 12, 2002}}</ref> National Fairways planned to develop the tract to include a [[golf club]], but the plans did not come to fruition.<ref name=Holson/> In 2002, real estate businessman [[Donald Trump]] bought the Lamington Farm estate for an estimated $35 million.<ref name=Holson/>

In fall 2002, [[The Trump Organization]] broke ground on the [[Trump National Golf Club Bedminster]] on the property, into which Trump reportedly invested $45 million.<ref name=Holson/> The manor house became the golf clubhouse.<ref name=Holson/> The 535-acre tract has two 18-hole courses: the older is designed by [[Tom Fazio]], the newer by his nephew Tommy Fazio.<ref name=Holson/> While [[president of the United States]], Trump spent significant time on the property, which has been called "the [[summer White House]]" and "White House North" by Trump administration officials, though this is not an official government designation.<ref name=Holson/> Through the end of December 2019, Trump spent nearly a third of his time as president visiting Trump-branded properties; much of this time was spent at the Bedminster club, where he frequently golfs, and at Trump's [[Mar-a-Lago]] resort in [[Palm Beach, Florida]] (the "[[winter White House]]").<ref>Phillip Bump, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/30/nearly-third-days-hes-been-president-trumps-visited-trump-branded-property/ Nearly a third of the days he’s been president, Trump has visited a Trump-branded property], ''Washington Post'' (December 30, 2019).</ref>

In 2007, Trump announced plans to build a [[mausoleum]] for himself on the property, including a huge [[obelisk]] in the middle of the golf course.<ref name=Fahrenthold>{{Cite web|author=David A. Fahrenthold|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-mystery-of-donald-trump-and-the-new-jersey-cemetery/2017/03/10/7823f63c-facb-11e6-bf01-d47f8cf9b643_story.html|title=The mystery of Donald Trump and the New Jersey cemetery|newspaper=Washington Post|date=March 10, 2017}}</ref> After encountering opposition from local residents over the out-of-scale nature of the proposal, Trump floated the idea of developing a "mausoleum/chapel" on the property, but did not pursue it.<ref name=Fahrenthold/> In 2014, The Trump Organization filed planning applications seeking authorization to construct a graveyard on the property, including 10 plots overlooking the first hole as a burial place for Trump himself (the filings with the state said that Trump "specifically chose this property for his final resting place as it is his favorite property") and 284 lots for sale to the public adjacent to the course.<ref name=Fahrenthold/> The state and township granted a cemetery license for the small plot; the 284-grave cemetery proposal received local approval, but not yet state approval.<ref name=Fahrenthold/> Trump later indicated he might prefer to be buried in Florida instead.<ref name=Fahrenthold/>