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Old Money, New Lap Pool: Chile's First Ruler Did His Homework in a $23.6 Million Richmond Manor

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Aerial shot of an empty swimming pool in Winter Springs, Florida, highlighted by surrounding palm trees casting long sha
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Before he led Chile to independence, Bernardo O'Higgins was just a schoolboy in a stately Richmond house that now carries an official heritage marker and, tucked behind its period brick, a glass-walled swimming pavilion built long after his time there. It's the kind of pedigree Palm Beach buyers chase and rarely find, paired with the kind of pool Naples buyers install without a second thought.

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With reporting from Robb Report.

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