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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 Beverly Estate is a property built in 1926 [1] [2] at 1011 North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, California. [3]The estate was designed by architect Gordon Kaufmann [4] and was the residence of actress Marion Davies and her partner William Randolph Hearst. [5]
The Hearst Ranch is composed of two cattle ranches in central California. The best known is the original Hearst Ranch, which surrounds Hearst Castle and comprises about 80,000 acres (320 km 2 ). George Hearst (1820–1891) bought over 30,000 acres (120 km 2 ) of Rancho Piedra Blanca , an 1840 Mexican land grant, in the late 19th century.
The Hearst family is a wealthy American family based in California. Their fortune was originally earned in the mining industry during the late 19th century under the entrepreneurial leadership of George Hearst .
Hearst Castle: San Simeon, California: William Randolph Hearst: California Department of Parks and Recreation: 1947: Spanish Colonial Revival: Julia Morgan: 21: 66,341 sq ft (6,163.3 m 2) [30] Grey Towers Castle: Glenside, Pennsylvania: William Welsh Harrison [31] Arcadia University: 1896: Gothic Revival: Horace Trumbauer: 22: 66,000 sq ft ...
San Simeon (Spanish: San Simeón, meaning "St. Simon") is an unincorporated community [2] on the Pacific coast of San Luis Obispo County, California, United States.Its position along State Route 1 is about halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, each of those cities being roughly 230 miles (370 km) away.
Hearst also began acquiring radio stations to complement his papers. [18] Hearst saw financial challenges in the early 1920s, when he was using company funds to build Hearst Castle in San Simeon and support movie production at Cosmopolitan Productions. This eventually led to the merger of the magazine Hearst International with Cosmopolitan in ...
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