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Hearst Castle (is) a palace in every sense of the word". [310] Victoria Kastner, for many years the in-house historian of Hearst Castle and author of a number of books on its design and history, concludes her history of the castle with an assessment of San Simeon as "the quintessential twentieth-century American country house". [311]
[17] [1] a record price for a house sold at auction until The One sold for $126 million in 2022. [18] In September 2021, the estate was 3.53 acres. Berggruen expanded it by purchasing an adjacent lot that included the original Hearst pool, thereby adding 1.10 acres and 5,991 square feet of living space to the estate. [19]
The Hearst family is a wealthy American family based in California. Their fortune was originally earned in the mining industry during the late 19th century under the entrepreneurial leadership of George Hearst .
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Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date span based on active dates of Harris & Ewing, Inc. Copy. Portrait series.
The Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Beginning in 1919, Hearst began to build Hearst Castle, which he never completed, on the 250,000-acre (100,000-hectare; 1,000-square-kilometre) ranch he had acquired near San Simeon. He furnished the mansion with art, antiques, and entire historic rooms purchased and brought from great houses in Europe.
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