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The Cloisters at the Spanish Monastery - Miami

From their site:
The Monastery of St. Bernard de Clairvaux was built in Sacramenia, in the Province of Segovia, Spain, during the period 1133-1144.

In 1925 William Randolph Hearst purchased the Cloisters to move it to his estate in California. The structures were dismantled stone by stone, packed in some 11,000 wooden crates, numbered for identification and shipped to the United States.

Soon after the shipment arrived, Hearst’s financial problems forced most of his collection to be sold at auction. The stones remained in a warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, for 26 years. One year after Hearst’s death in 1952, they were purchased by Messrs. W. Edgemon and R. Moss for use as a tourist attraction. It took 19 months to put the Monastery back together in Miami, where it stands today.