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Hearst Castle (is) a palace in every sense of the word". [310] Victoria Kastner, for many years the in-house historian of Hearst Castle and author of a number of books on its design and history, concludes her history of the castle with an assessment of San Simeon as "the quintessential twentieth-century American country house". [311]
The three properties form a compound totaling 5.5 acres. [20] The property has undergone multiple name changes. It was originally known as The Getz House. [8] It was named the Beverly House when Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst occupied it. [21] [22] Following their deaths, it was known as the Hearst Estate. [23]
The Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Beginning in 1919, Hearst began to build Hearst Castle, which he never completed, on the 250,000-acre (100,000-hectare; 1,000-square-kilometre) ranch he had acquired near San Simeon. He furnished the mansion with art, antiques, and entire historic rooms purchased and brought from great houses in Europe.
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List of assets owned by Hearst Communications, a privately held American-based media conglomerate based in the Hearst Tower in New York City, USA.: Publishing [ edit ]
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Filoli: a free Georgian style mansion built for William Bowers Bourn II and his wife, Agnes Moody Bourn in Woodside, California; the setting for the American soap opera Dynasty; Gamble House: the residence of David Gamble (of Procter & Gamble) in Pasadena, California built by Greene & Greene.