Built in the 1930s, high above the Santa Barbara coast, the mansion known as Bellosguardo was the summer home of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, who instructed her staff to never change a thing – and they didn’t. CBS Sunday Morning pays a visit to a fabled home constructed from a Gilded Age fortune (made famous from the bestseller “Empty Mansions), which will be opening its doors to public tours in the near future.

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