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By the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst was the head of a media empire comprising dozens of newspapers, magazines, wire and photo services, newsreels, radio stations, and film studios.

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	William Randolph Hearst built one of the largest media empires in history, as well as one of the most ostentatious homes and art collections.
	William Randolph Hearst started to build a fabulous estate on his ranchland overlooking the village of San Simeon in 1919.

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Known as La Cuesta Encantada, Hearst Castle was built by William Randolph Hearst and Julia Morgan in San Simeon on California's Central Coast near San Luis Obispo.

From the early 1920s until 1947, William Randolph Hearst lived in a castle on his family's San Simeon estate. The vast plot of land was originally purchased by his father George Hearst in 1865. But when W.R. inherited the estate from his late parents in 1919, he enlisted architect Julia Morgan to build a castle, which would become his residence with his mistress, Marion Davies until 1947.

Throughout W.R.'s youth, the estate was a working cattle ranch, 97,000 acres, along the California coast, 230 miles north of Los Angeles. George and W.R. hunted and rode horses through the canyons. At night the family stayed in fully furnished tents pitched by the ranch hands on a place they called “Camp Hill,” where they were fed by professional cooks.

By 1922, with the estate under his control, Hearst and Morgan had built their idea of a Spanish village. The main structure, dubbed Casa Grande, was capped by two

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