During America’s Gilded Age, the nation’s super-wealthy were the first to develop sprawling mansions that seemingly belonged ...
Contemporary audiences know William Randolph Hearst as the Orson Welles–created eccentric media magnate who holed himself up in his hilltop mansion ୠla the movie Citizen Kane. Others know him as the ...
Senator, prospector, and businessman George Hearst purchased roughly 48,000 acres of the Piedra Blanca Rancho near San Simeon Bay in 1865. Along with his wife, Phoebe, and son, William Randolph, ...