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Hearst Building, Market & 3rd
In 1887 the San Francisco-born William Randolph Hearst received the San Francisco Examiner from his father, George Hearst. The younger Hearst constructed this building and moved the newspaper into it in 1890. Hearst turned the paper into a scandal-filled, audacious, and sensational newspaper. Hearst then expanded his media empire and political clout by buying the New York Morning Journal and 26 other newspapers, including ones in Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston. While Hearst always maintained a penthouse apartment in this building, he spent most of later years in the lavish Hearst Castle down the coast at San Simeon. When William Randolph Hearst died in 1951 his body lay in state in San Francisco and several thousand people filed by to view it. He is buried along with his father just south of the city. Orson Welles modelled his masterpiece film, Citizen Kane on the life of Hearst.
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