![UNSPECIFIED LOCATION – APRIL 18: In this screengrab, (L-R) Melinda Gates and Bill Gates speak during “One World: Together At Home” presented by Global Citizen on April, 18, 2020. The global broadcast and digital special was held to support frontline healthcare workers and the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization, powered by the UN Foundation. (Photo by Getty Images/Getty Images for Global Citizen )](https://media.nbcboston.com/2021/05/MELINDA-BILL-GATES-GETTY-TLMD.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&resize=320%2C180)
UNSPECIFIED LOCATION – APRIL 18: In this screengrab, (L-R) Melinda Gates and Bill Gates speak during “One World: Together At Home” presented by Global Citizen on April, 18, 2020. The global broadcast and digital special was held to support frontline healthcare workers and the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization, powered by the UN Foundation. (Photo by Getty Images/Getty Images for Global Citizen )
Perhaps Bill Gates has stayed there while stopping by Harvard University for a speaking engagement since dropping out and becoming one of the world's most famous businessmen.
Either way, a hotel in Harvard Square happens to be one of a wide range of properties that could now be caught up in the divorce between Bill and Melinda Gates.
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The Gateses, through a secretive investment firm, own Harvard Square's Charles Hotel, which stands just a few blocks from Harvard Yard, off which Gates reportedly lived in Harvard's Wigglesworth Hall dorm before leaving in 1975. The 10-story hotel was built a bit later, in 1984, according to city records.
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