Hearst Castle is one of the top 10 most Instagram-worthy homes in the world, according to British interior design site Swift Direct Blinds. From photos of Greek statues posing beside a sky-blue ...

Contemporary audiences know William Randolph Hearst as the Orson Welles–created eccentric media magnate who holed himself up in his hilltop mansion à­ la 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, ...