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What does it take to make a house?
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One of history's greatest homes,
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whether they're warm and cozy
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or grand and drafty?
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When you're building your home
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you're creating your own universe.
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And the most celebrated homes in history
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stood the test of time.
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This is Hampton Court Palace.
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It was a place for fun,
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and above all, as you can see of magnificence.
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This is a spectacular palace, even today.
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We often describe it as an architectural autobiography.
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And so at Monet Chalet, you get a true sense of a man.
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I think that the point was to be ostentatious.
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This was the statement that they were trying to make
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that they had made it
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and they were going to let the world know
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that they were important.
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{\an8}Fontainebleau is a former royal
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{\an8}and imperial residence in France
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{\an8}dating back to the Middle Ages.
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{\an8}The history of the castle
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{\an8}is therefore almost a thousand years old.
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You can imagine coming into this room in the evening
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or any time of day
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and everybody who was anybody was here.
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(birds chirping)
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Some great homes
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are made famous by their legendary residents.
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Others are crowning architectural achievements
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filled with incredible art.
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Still more reign supreme as beacons of power and luxury.
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But, in the heart of California,
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one house encompasses all of this and more,
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Hearst Castle.
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Perched atop a hill
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overlooking the Pacific ocean.
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This towering abode is a monument to the opulence
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of America's Gilded Age.
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It was home to maverick newspaper tycoon,
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William Randolph Hearst.
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{\an8}He was the Steve Jobs and the Bill Gates.
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{\an8}I mean, he brought comics.
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He brought designs.
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He brought games.
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He brought color to newspapers
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before anybody else dreamt it could happen.
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Steve Hearst is the great grandson
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of William Randolph Hearst.
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He's the fifth generation
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to call this incredible property home.
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And yet the Hearst family's connection to this land
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extends back to humbler origins
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in the mid 1800s.
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When it was purchased by William Randolph's father,
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George Hearst,
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and known simply as "The Ranch."
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Right where the castle is located,
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it was referred to as Camp Hill
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and that's where George, W.R's father used to take him.
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W.R. just fell in love with it as a child,
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and this was like his favorite place in the world.
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The love for this land
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runs deep in the Hearst family, even to this day.
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I just think that this is
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one of the most spectacular pieces of property.
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There is something about the view on the coast,
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18 miles of beach front.
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Gardens are flushed,
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the flowers are blooming, the sun is out
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it's 85, 90 degrees at nine o'clock in the morning.
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You've got beautiful pools and fountains and statuary.
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This place, that's forever.
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This property go right to the very core of our being
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and the core of our relationship to California.
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In 1958,
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Hearst Castle was made a California State Park
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and Historic House Museum.
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To this day,
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a team of trustees work tirelessly to preserve the home,
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just as Mr.Hearst left it.
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Hello, I'm Hoyt Fields, welcome to Hearst Castle,
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{\an8}operated by California State Parks.
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We opened for tours on June the 2nd, 1958.
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Over 40 million visitors.
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And what you see today is how he left it in 1947.
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So when you're walking through,
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you're walking through history,
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this is how it was and will always be.
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Hoyt Fields is the former museum director
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of Hearst Castle Historic House Museum,
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and a passionate communicator of the Hearst history.
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As a young man, William Randolph Hearst
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traveled the world with his mother.
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He had a love of art and a sense of adventure
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and the pocket book to back it up.
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But it wasn't until he was 24
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that he found his life's true calling.
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He did go to Harvard.
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He was kicked out.
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In 1887, dad, George Hearst, his Senator
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gave William Randolph Hearst the San Francisco Examiner,
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and that's where his love for publishing began.
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And he started buying up newspapers
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and publishing magazines.
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At one time,
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one in three Americans read a Hearst publication.
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The influence the man had.
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And his burgeoning media empire
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didn't stop the printed word.
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He had his own movie studio, Cosmopolitan studios.
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Came here and he hooked up with MGM.
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And with Charlie Chaplin.
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He was the original media mogul.
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If you think of Rupert Murdoch,
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Rupert Murdoch is just a clone of Hearst, basically.
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His media empire grew to span the nation,
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but home for Hearst
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was always his family's land here in San Simeon.
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Mr. Hearst came here, he called this The Ranch
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and they would set up tents
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and they would camp here.
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Not our typical, get out our Coleman stove and put it up,
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but the whole bit, Persian rugs and antique furniture
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and the whole thing.
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On into his adulthood,
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he would do that with his five sons and his wife.
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He said he would rather spend a month here
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than anywhere else in the world.
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And he traveled all over the world.
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As he built a fabulous fortune,
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Hearst dreamed of turning his humble hill
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into a home envied around the world.
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In 1919, he wrote to Julia Morgan.
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He said, "We're tired of camping in tents.
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Let's build a little something here."
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Julia Morgan was the first female
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admitted to the architecture program
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at the School of Fine Arts in Paris.
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Hearst Castle was a collaboration
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between William Randolph Hearst
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and the architect Julia Morgan.
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1919 to 1947.
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They worked together to build this beautiful home.
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Over the 28 years it took to build
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that little something
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grew into a series of luxurious buildings and gardens
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on this 127 acre estate.
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He spent a reported $6.5 million on construction alone.
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Hearst aptly named it
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"La Cuesta Encantada" or "The Enchanted Hill".
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In designing his home,
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Hearst sought to capture the grander
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of European architecture.
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And many features were inspired by iconic buildings.
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What we have here,
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we're looking at the main house, Casa Grande,
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and its a 115 room home.
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And it's fashioned after a cathedral in Spain.
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We have the Madonna and Child, 13th century,
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up in the in the niche, above the door.
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We have the Teakwood Gable
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that goes all around the third floor.
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That's Mr. Hearst's private suite.
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And then in the towers, we have 36 bells,
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18 in each tower and we play them every day at noon.
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This ornate structure
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was built at the height of America's Gilded Age.
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At the turn of the 20th century,
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America led the world in new industries and technologies.
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This was an age where the wealth and power
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of American tycoons rivaled European royalty.
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And Hearst,
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he owned the most powerful media empire of the day.
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When the millions are rolling in,
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why not show off a little?
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Hearst Castle was a home Mr. Hearst built
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for his family and friends.
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When you were invited to The Ranch
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you came here and it was for enjoyment.
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He wanted them to relax.
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They came through a private zoo,
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the world's largest private zoo.
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They drove through, the animals, had the right of way.
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A signal of the awesome sites to come.
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Started with a long and winding trip
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through Hearst's private zoo
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complete with roaming camels,
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zebras, giraffes, and kangaroos.
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This menagerie was one of a kind in America,
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just like the castle itself.
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With 126 rooms
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and 68,000 square feet of living space.
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And over 25,000 works of art and antiquities.
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Here, guests would not only enjoy the luxuries of the age,
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they'd be inundated by its riches.
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We have here at the castle, 25,000 pieces of art
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and that's only one tenth of Mr. Hearst's collection.
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A lifelong collector,
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Hearst spent $3.5 million decorating his home
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and covering every surface
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with incredible works of art and antiquities
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imported from across the world.
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With these incredible historic pieces
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still housed here today.
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Hearst Castle is not only a home,
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it's a museum of the world's greatest art.
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Julia Morgan, not only was the architect,
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not only did she draw the plans,
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but she was the interior decorator also.
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He had all three of those individuals
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in this one fabulous woman.
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The art would come into San Simeon, the warehouses
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they would uncrate it.
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So Julia Morgan would go to the warehouses
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in San Simeon
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and she had 36 volumes
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of rugs, tapestries, choir stalls, ceilings
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and she just pick, pick, pick, pick, pick.
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Mr. Hearst wanted for nothing,
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and neither did his home.
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Julia Morgan filled it to the brim
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with artistic delights from all over the world.
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Mr. Hearst's guests
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would enter through the front door here,
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and the first thing that they would see
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is this 3rd century mosaic from Ostia
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and it's called Mirmana and the Fishes.
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And they would be focused on this.
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And all of a sudden they would look up
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and enter this grand assembly room.
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We've got a piano, we've got a radio,
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that's been put in a 16th century, Italian credenza.
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We have a games table
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and we have the comfortable couches.
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And then we walk over here
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and we're standing in front of a 16th century,
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French mantle over mantle fireplace
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from the Château d'Eu, just outside of Paris.
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And even though, surrounded by all this fabulous art,
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you have these comfortable pieces of furniture
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that you could just sit down.
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And that's what Mr. Hearst wanted.
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He wanted you to enjoy,
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to be comfortable
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and surrounded by priceless art.
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In this grand living room,
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the brightest stars from the 1920s intermingled.
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You can imagine coming into this room
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in the evening or any time of day,
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and you have Clark Gable,
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you have Carole Lombard, you have Charlie Chaplin,
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Jay of the Marx brothers,
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or everybody who was anybody was here,
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not only from the movie calling,
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but captains of industry.
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AP Giannini, the founder of bank of America.
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You might have the mayor of New York.
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You might have Winston Churchill.
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So it was an eclectic mix of guests.
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But the living room wasn't just
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about entertaining influential men and women of the age.
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It was also a gathering place for the family.
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They used to roll up the rugs
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and they used to dance on the teak wood floors.
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The sons, the five sons,
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they used to play ball games in here.
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Can you imagine, with this priceless art playing ball games?
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Memories of the glamorous and enchanted evenings
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still reverberate through this impressive room.
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But cocktails in the living room was just the beginning
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of a grand evening ahead.
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Any given evening, the guests are in here,
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they're having cocktails, they're having hors d'oeuvres.
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Mr. Hearst is going around and discussing the art
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because he was so passionate about it.
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And at nine o'clock, precisely,
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the butler would come through these doors
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and ring a cowbell,
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this is The Ranch,
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to announce that dinner was served.
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The dining room of Hearst Castle
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is one of the most impressive in the world.
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An original 16th century Gothic ceiling,
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imported from an Italian church
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is the pièce de résistance of this impressive rectory.
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But the mustard and ketchup bottles
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showed that Mr. Hearst
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likes to add a little American flavor to his ranch.
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You know, it's really interesting,
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you come into this room
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and you see all this beautiful art.
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And then you look down at the table,
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and you see paper napkins, ketchup, mustard,
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pickles, relish, everything in their original containers
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set right here on this table,
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these 16th century factory tables.
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He wanted them to be odd,
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but he also wanted them to feel comfortable.
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Here we would have Mr. Hearst and Ms. Davis
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sitting across from each other,
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but then you might have ZaSu Pitts
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and you might have Groucho Marx.
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You never know.
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And Carrie Grant said,
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"Every time your place card
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got moved closer and closer
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to this 16th century French fireplace
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with the heat coming off of it,
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you knew it was time to go home."
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Everything basically that they ate,
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except for seafood, was raised here on the ranch.
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You had the beef, you had the poultry, you had the fruit.
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And so it was really meat and potatoes.
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When Winston Churchill came,
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he wanted hot dogs and beans,
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so that's what they served.
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The rooms here rival any European castle,
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for good reason.
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Many of the objects that adorn these rooms
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were acquired from Royal estates in France,
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Spain, and Italy.
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Hearst was American royalty.
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And it showed.
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Here in the billiard room,
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a 15th century Spanish ceiling
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painted with scenes of courtly love
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overlooks pool tables.
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This room was mainly for the men after dinner
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where they could come in and have drinks, and smoke cigars,
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play billiards, and play pool.
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Keeping the priceless ancient art
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festooning every wall
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is no easy feat for those tending to the castle.
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With some of the world's most incredible treasures
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housed here,
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major efforts to conserve Hearst's collection must be made.
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Look what they're surrounded.
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Beautiful, middle flair.
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Beautiful 15th century Spanish ceiling.
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And thanks to the foundation,
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we were able to conserve this.
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Even though Hearst and his guests
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were surrounded by rare antiquities and ancient art,
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this was a modern home for a 20th century media mogul.
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Hearst was an entertainer,
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a consummate host,
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and above all, a showman.
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From the billiard room,
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Hearst would welcome guests to his theater.
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(upbeat music)
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Of course we have the theater here.
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But look at these beautiful caryatids designed
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by Julia Morgan,
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polychromed and gold leaf.
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They hold up the room.
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And then you have these comfortable, low seats.
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And Mr. Hearst built this theater,
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most Hollywood moguls, the movie producers,
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they have their own screening rooms in their homes.
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But nothing as opulent as this.
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People were required to come here at night
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to see the movie,
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it was at 11 o'clock.
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You can imagine, after a three hour meal
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or a two hour meal,
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with the wine and the food.
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Most of them probably, I shouldn't say this,
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but they probably fell asleep, depending on the movie.
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After movie time,
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guests would retreat
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to their luxurious bedroom suites.
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Like this one in the doges.
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And the next day, this life of fantasy
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would happen all over again.
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But before afternoon cocktails,
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guests might have the pleasure of a cool leisurely dip
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in one of two magnificent pools.
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We happened to be by the most iconic
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place on the Hilltop,
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the Neptune pool.
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Shown in magazines and on pictures,
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and when people see this pool,
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they know this is Hearst castle.
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There is nothing like this, anywhere.
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We have mythology, we have Neptune in the temple.
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He used to be carrying a trident at one time.
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And he is facing Venus, who he created
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from the form of the sea, on the shell.
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It is so spectacular.
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(soft music)
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While family and friends lounge
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by the glamorous pools
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and enjoy the zoo and theater,
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Hearst was working.
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His insatiable appetite for wealth and influence
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meant he rarely took the time
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to enjoy the fruits of his labor.
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We all have a home office, but can you imagine
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having an office like this?
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This is the Gothic study.
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This is Mr. Hearst office.
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He actually worked in here.
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He had 41 newspapers.
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He would put the newspapers on the floor in here
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and he would take big crayons and he would circle
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and rewrite.
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So he worked late two, three o'clock.
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Sometimes the guests didn't see him until dinner time
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because he worked all night.
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Even into the 1930s his fortune grew,
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he was a Baron
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unrivaled and unprecedented in the history of mass media.
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But as time wore on,
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his newspaper circulation fell,
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his movies began to flop,
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and his successes waned.
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His extravagant spending
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and mounting debts became unsustainable.
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Finally, he was forced to mortgage and pay rent
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on his own castle.
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But he never loved it any less.
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This was a favorite place for him,
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and he was so sad and devastated when he had to leave here
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at the age of 84,
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it was really difficult for him.
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The millions of people
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who have visited Hearst's enchanted castle
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have come here for a taste of luxurious lifestyle
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of the rich and famous of the Gilded Age.
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And to admire Hearst's legendary art collection.
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We show the home as Mr. Hearst lived in it.
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We have no barriers.
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You are not inhibited from
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being a part of it,
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you're in it.
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We want our visitors to feel like they are a guest
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of William Randolph Hearst.
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And in touring the many jaw dropping chambers
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of Hearst castle.
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One gets a small glimpse
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at the man behind the myth,
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the insatiable worker,
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the obsessive art collector,
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the entertainer,
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a man whose life and times will go down in history.
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He was a newspaper man.
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He was a politician.
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He was an art collector.
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He was a movie producer.
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This is his home.
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We're preserving it for future generations
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to enjoy what this man was able to collect.
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Preserving the legacy of this home
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is no small feat.
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We're celebrating 100 years
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of the beginning of the construction of the castle,
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right now.
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And so not only the ancient art,
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the antiques are we preserving,
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but we have to maintain the items that were built
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at the very beginning.
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Thanks to the foundation,
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we are able to keep the art preserved
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for future generations,
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which is our mission.
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This shining house on the Hill
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is not only legendary for its art and architecture.
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It stands as a monument to the man,
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a testament to one of America's most incredible architects
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and designers, Julia Morgan.
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It was through her talents
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that Hearst's dreams became a reality.
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Hoyt, Steve, the foundation at Hearst Castle,
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all work tirelessly to make sure this incredible home
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is preserved and shared.
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Every family member drives through that gate.
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Every one of them thinks they're home,
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regardless of where they've moved to
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or whatever state they're in
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whatever country they're in,
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when they get back here this is home base.
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I've spent so much time here.
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It is like a second home to me.
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It really is.
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Of course, my home is not as opulent as this,
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but I feel that this is just as much my home
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as the one 39 miles away (laughs)
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I think W.R., I think even George,
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I think if they came here today
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they would be extraordinarily pleased
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that the legacy is stable and thriving.
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And they would be just as thrilled to know
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that it will be that way in 15, 100 years.
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Mansions might be a dime a dozen
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for the movie stars and tech billionaires of California,
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but Hearst Castle, and the man who calls it home,
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will go down in history.
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(birds chirping)
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