Ten years later, when Huguette inherited the 23-acre estate, she gave the staff instructions to never change a thing. Mysteriously, the family last visited Bellosguardo in 1953. The shy Huguette took to art, spending her sun-filled days painting. One of the richest families of the Gilded Age, the Clarks - including daughter, Huguette - used the home solely as a summer getaway. Built in the 1930s, high above the Santa Barbara coast, the home made famous in the bestselling "Empty Mansions" was a summer residence of Huguette Clark, who didn't set foot on the property for several decades. The Italianate home on the 23-acre property was then torn down, and in 1933, Clark's widow, Anna, built the lavish, solid-concrete home that remains today. Set high above 1,000 feet of coastline, Bellosguardo (Italian for "beautiful lookout") was purchased by copper magnate, Senator William Clark, in 1923. It's the talk of Santa Barbara: What has become of the hideaway on the hill?
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