French cloister is situated in the northern Bahamas, on Paradise Island. It is from a 14th-century Augustinian monastery, dismantled and imported from Europe by William Randolph Hearst. Purchased while still in pieces from Hearst's estate by Huntington Hartford and reassembled stone by stone here as the centerpiece of the Versailles Gardens on Paradise Island.[1] Overlooks Nassau Harbor to one side, and the One & Only Ocean Club resort to the other.
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- 1."Cloisters Paradise Island". practicalparadiseisland.com. Archived from the original on 2022-03-22. Augustinian monks in France built the original monastery; William Randolph Hearst bought it and had it shipped to the US. After that, Huntington Hartford, the A&P; supermarket heir and developer of the former Hog Island into Paradise Island, bought the stones and had the Cloisters reassembled on its present site.