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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]
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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 $80-million refresh for the building, designed by Hearst Castle architect Julia Morgan, is part of a revival of the downtown neighborhood that includes hotels, apartments and offices.
With 56 bedrooms and 96,000 square feet to contend with, Hearst Castle's chief curator, Hoyt Fields, is the busiest estate manager in the world. But how does he keep up with the upkeep on the ...
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Greatly impressed by her work on the Fairmont, Phoebe Hearst recommended Morgan for several large construction projects, including Asilomar. Her son, William Randolph Hearst, was likewise greatly impressed and, after his mother's death, retained Morgan to design what would become the biggest and most famous project of her career, Hearst Castle.
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