{"id":40,"date":"2017-03-06T05:22:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T05:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/northseventeenblog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2017-04-05T08:19:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T08:19:11","slug":"santa-anas-richest-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/northseventeenblog\/santa-anas-richest-resident\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Ana\u2019s Richest Resident"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Ever wondered who\u2019s the wealthiest of them all? We\u2019ve got the goods: Sir Yeshwant Holkar, The Maharaja of Indore, whose fortress stands proudly in Floral Park. Wait, let\u2019s backtrack \u2013 What\/who the hell is The Maharaja of Indore, in the first place? The Maharaja of Indore were members of The\u00a0Holkar\u00a0dynasty which was a Hindu Maratha royal house in India. The Holkars\u00a0ruled as Maratha Rajas, and later as\u00a0Maharajas\u00a0of\u00a0Indore\u00a0in Central India as an independent member of the Maratha Empire until 1818. In other words, this dude was a king.<\/p>\n

It is said that during this time, he could plunge his arm up to his elbow into several chests full of precious jewels. His treasure chests had an estimated value of $20 million in 1937. Today, taking inflation into account, that is equal to $344,902,857.14 down to the penny. Yowza! I think it\u2019s safe to say that he was ballin\u2019.<\/p>\n

As the story goes, he chose to build his 18th<\/sup> home in Santa Ana because he wanted a safe place to raise his daughter, 5-year-old, Princess Usha. They loved the beauty and tranquility offered by Santa Ana. The home is located at the corner on Heliotrope and Santa Clara at 2221 North Heliotrope Drive and was built by the then most prominent building contractor in Orange County, Allison Horner. At the time, Allison Horner lived across the street and he then hired Donald Kirby of Balboa Island to design the house.<\/p>\n

The Santa Ana Register stated, \u201cA man\u2019s home is his castle, and the castle being built for the world richest man, the Maharajah of Indore, in Santa Ana is not only a castle; it is literally a fortress. It will guard that which is more dear to him than all of his income-it will guard the safety and continued well-being of his daughter, Princess Usha.\u201d According to this publication, this is the only castle in Western America to house a foreign ruler and his family.<\/p>\n

At the time, the cost to build was only $50,000, however, over $150,000 was spent to furnish the entire home with the most exotic rugs and finishes. Every night, a servant slept in the hallway directly outside Princess Usha\u2019s bedroom.<\/p>\n

When the home was fully built, the Prince and his family moved in. His small circle of friends included his builder, Allison Horner, and attorney Dave Howell. Only after 1 year of living there, the family decided to move back to India to be of service to his emperor and his country. Princess Usha stayed in the Heliotrope house and attended Hoover Elementary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever wondered who\u2019s the wealthiest of them all? We\u2019ve got the goods: Sir Yeshwant Holkar, The Maharaja of Indore, whose fortress stands proudly in Floral Park. Wait, let\u2019s backtrack \u2013 What\/who the hell is The Maharaja of Indore, in the first place? The Maharaja of Indore were members of The\u00a0Holkar\u00a0dynasty which was a Hindu Maratha […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-french-park-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/northseventeenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/northseventeenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/northseventeenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/northseventeenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/northseventeenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/northseventeenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/northseventeenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/northseventeenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/northseventeenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}