Dick Cheney lived in Teton Pines, a gated golf community in Wilson, Wyoming, a few miles west of Jackson. He and his wife, Lynne, kept that house for more than three decades. Cheney died on 3 November 2025 at the age of 84, from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.
The Dick Cheney house was never a showpiece, and that is the interesting part. He bought into Teton Pines a decade before the vice presidency, and the property’s significance turned out to be political rather than architectural: it was the address that made him a Wyoming resident at the exact moment he needed to be one.
Dick Cheney at a Glance
| Attribute | Details |
|---|---|
| Full name | Richard Bruce Cheney |
| Born | 30 January 1941, Lincoln, Nebraska |
| Died | 3 November 2025, aged 84 |
| Raised | Casper, Wyoming |
| Wyoming home | Teton Pines, Wilson, Teton County |
| Property bought | 1993 |
| Political role | 46th Vice President of the United States (2001–2009) |
| Family | Lynne Cheney (wife); daughters Liz and Mary |
Where Did Dick Cheney Live?
He lived in Wilson, Wyoming, in Teton County, inside the gated Teton Pines community. The Jackson Hole News&Guide reported after his death that “for 32 years, he and his wife, Lynne, have been part-time residents of Teton County, living in a house in Teton Pines.”
Wilson sits just south of Teton Village, within easy reach of Grand Teton National Park and the Snake River. It is a small community with an outsized share of wealthy part-time residents, drawn by the skiing, the fishing and Wyoming’s lack of a state income tax.
The phrase “part-time” matters. For most of his career the couple also spent long stretches on the East Coast, and during the vice presidency their official Washington home was Number One Observatory Circle. Wyoming was the place they returned to, not the place they were always in.
Why Wyoming Mattered to the Cheney Family
Cheney was born in Nebraska but grew up in Casper and went to the University of Wyoming. He represented the state in Congress through the 1980s, so the Wyoming identity was real long before the house existed.
The timing of the move, though, was pure constitutional arithmetic. In 2000 he and Lynne shifted their residency from Texas to Jackson Hole. The Twelfth Amendment discourages electors from voting for a president and a vice president who both come from their own state, and George W. Bush was a Texas resident. A Texan Cheney would have cost the ticket Texas’s electoral votes.
The News&Guide account captures how quickly it happened. Sherry Daigle, the Teton County Clerk, registered him to vote in Wyoming in 2000, “a move that all but confirmed that he would become George W. Bush’s running mate.” He launched his vice presidential bid from that same clerk’s office. On Election Day he cast his ballot at the Wilson firehouse and flew to Texas.
The Teton Pines property, bought seven years earlier, is what made all of that possible.
Dick Cheney House: What Is Known About the Property
The documented record is short and worth stating plainly. WyoFile reported that “Dick and Lynne Cheney bought property in Teton Pines in 1993. They held a mortgage on that property for $455,000, which they paid off in 1995.”
Teton Pines itself is a gated community built around a golf course on the valley floor between Wilson and Teton Village. Homes there sit on generous lots with mountain views, and the architecture across the development leans toward the timber-and-stone mountain style common throughout Jackson Hole.
Beyond that, be sceptical of what you read. The Cheneys never opened the house to the press, and no verified floor plan, square footage or interior photograph has been published. Figures that circulate online, including bedroom counts and dollar values, differ from one site to the next and trace back to no primary source. This article does not publish the street address either, because it remains a private family home.
Life at the Jackson Hole House
What is well documented is how he used the place, and that is a better portrait than any invented interior tour.
He fished. The News&Guide spoke to guides who took him out on the South Fork of the Snake River, among them Fletcher White, who guided him for seven years. He wore waders even when it was 100 degrees. On one trip he took a satellite phone call on a gravel bar and learned that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been killed. Before 9/11 he skied at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and turned up at Pearl Street Bagels like anyone else.
After 9/11, the house changed character. Teton County Sheriff’s Office deputies joined Secret Service agents to protect the Teton Pines property, and the quiet valley road acquired a permanent security presence. One local, Tat Maxwell, protested him across all eight years of the vice presidency.
The house also did political work. WyoFile reported that in 2012 Cheney hosted a fundraising dinner for Mitt Romney at his Teton Pines home at $30,000 per couple.
Jan Larimer, a Wyoming Republican National Committeewoman quoted after his death, put it simply: “Dick loved living in Jackson Hole.”
The Maryland Estate He Sold in 2019
The couple’s other well-documented property was on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and unlike the Wyoming house it has a full public paper trail.
Ballintober was a nine-acre waterfront estate outside St. Michaels, in Talbot County, with a main house dating to about 1930, five bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms and a separate guesthouse. The Cheneys bought it in 2005 for roughly $2.67 million. They listed it in April 2019 at $2,495,000, and it sold later that year for $2.1 million — a loss of more than half a million dollars on the purchase price.
Local coverage in The Star Democrat described the Shore as somewhere he went to be left alone. The sale in 2019 left Wyoming as the family’s clear centre of gravity.
Dick Cheney’s Net Worth and the $100 Million Myth
A figure of around $100 million is attached to this house all over the internet. It does not describe the house. It is a garbled version of estimates of Cheney’s personal wealth, and even those are unreliable.
His financial disclosure as vice president reported a net worth in a band of roughly $20 million to $100 million. Disclosure forms work in ranges rather than exact totals, which is why the ceiling of that band escaped into circulation as a headline number. Estimates published since by celebrity-finance sites run anywhere from about $21 million to $150 million, none of them sourced to anything primary. Most of the wealth is attributed to his years as chief executive of Halliburton.
Set that against the documented property record and the scale becomes obvious. The Maryland estate, a nine-acre waterfront property, sold for $2.1 million. The Teton Pines mortgage in 1993 was $455,000. A nine-figure house in Wilson, Wyoming would be far outside anything the documented record supports.
What Happened to the House After Cheney’s Death?
As of November 2026, no sale or transfer of the Teton Pines property has been publicly reported. Lynne Cheney survives him.
The wider family remains in the valley. The Associated Press noted that Liz Cheney “has continued to live in Jackson Hole, near her parents”; she and her husband bought a home in Wilson in 2012. WyoFile reported that Mary Cheney also owns property in Teton County.
A House Chosen, Not Inherited
Plenty of political homes are grand. This one is interesting for a different reason: it was picked deliberately, kept for 32 years, and quietly did more work than its modest 1993 mortgage would suggest. It turned a Texas oil executive back into a Wyoming resident, hosted a presidential campaign’s donors, and absorbed eight years of Secret Service details and a protester at the gate.
Strip away the invented valuations and the Dick Cheney house comes down to a straightforward fact: a man from Casper bought a place near the mountains he grew up next to, and went home to it whenever Washington let him.
For other political residences, see our guides to the Colin Powell house in McLean, Virginia and the Lindsey Graham house in Seneca, South Carolina. If it is the Wyoming connection that interests you, the Hansjörg Wyss estate sits in the same state, and the Greg Abbott house covers the Texas governor’s official residence.
