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Top of the price list is still
the Hearst
Mansion |
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Once
owned by William Randolf Hearst, the Jacobean Manor house on 40
acres in San Simeon, California, this property is available for
$165 million. I don’t think this one bears knocking down
though.
The
Hearst Mansion was originally constructed on a 40,000 acre ranch
that William Randolph Hearst’s father, George Hearst, purchased in
1865. Hearst jnr grew to love this site during many childhood
family camping trips. He inherited the ranch, which had grown to
250,000 acres from his mother, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, upon her
death in 1919. He began building that year and continued through to
1947, when he stopped living at the estate due to ill health. San
Francisco architect Julia Morgan designed most of the buildings.
Hearst was never 100% satisfied and would tear down structures and
rebuild them at a whim, so the estate was never completed in his
lifetime. Containing 56 bedrooms, 61 bathrooms, 19 sitting rooms,
127 acres of gardens, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, tennis
courts, a movie theater, an airfield, and the world’s largest
private zoo. Zebras and other exotic animals still roam the
grounds. Morgan, an accomplished civil engineer, devised a
gravity-based water delivery system from a nearby mountain. One
highlight of the estate is the Neptune Pool, which features an
expansive vista of the mountains, ocean and the main
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A little further down the price
scale, the Portabello
estate, a 30,000 square feet
property in Corona Del Mar still begs to be knocked down and turned
into something a little more attractive. Even with 8 bedrooms and
an “interesting,” design, the proximity of a busy road and public
beach make this one unlikely to reach it’s current $75 million
price tag. The real estate agents have also gone to the touble of
creating a website entireley devoted to the Portabello
estate. And the
luxury brokers, have even made a special
aerial shot of the property with a big red
arrow pointing out the
“interesting,” design - just in case you failed to see it.
Although, if that is the case, I doubt you will be able to
appreciate the view 
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Jumping back up the price scale
again is the Tranquility mansion,
Lake Tahoe. |
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Situated on the tax-free side of
the lake, “Tranquility,” sits on 210 acres of prime real estate.
The main house covers more than 20,000 square feet and is built in
the California-Faux-Northern-European-mansion style. 9 bedrooms, 14
full bathrooms and a 3,000+ bottle wine cellar with a bronze carved
door that was previously owned by none other than William Randolph
Hearst. Small world. Currently owned by Joel Horowitz, co-founder
of Tommy Hilfiger we will see if Mr. Trump’s sales success will be
followed by any of these in the near
future. |
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