Early in the new year, I described a Christmas-week visit my wife and I took to Xanadu William Randolph Heart’s San Simeon estate. As I wrote back then:
Construction of Hearst’s estate began in 1919 and continued until 1947, when Hearst was too ill to remain living on his estate; he would eventually move to Beverly Hills to be closer to his surgeons, and died in 1951.
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California’s not likely to part with San Simeon anytime soon, but the Guardian reports that Heart’s final home can be yours for a cool $165 million.
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