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Hearst Castle (is) a palace in every sense of the word". [311] 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". [312]
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 for banker Milton Getz [4] and was the residence of actress Marion Davies and her partner William Randolph Hearst after his infirmity forced them to leave San Simeon. [5]
Libbey Castle/Woodcliff Castle 1857 Medieval: Alexander Jackson Davies: New York City: Built for Augustus C Richards, was demolished in 1931 for the construction of Fort Tryon Park. Alexander Turney Stewart House 1869 Second Empire: John Kellum: New York City: Demolished in 1901 more images: Charles M. Schwab House: 1906: Beaux-Arts: Maurice ...
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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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Hearst proposed that the unused Bradenstoke barn be incorporated into his great castle, and had Morgan study the possibilities. [ 27 ] In the spring of 1931, Morgan offered several designs for Hearst's consideration, all of them using the stones of the Spanish monastery on the ground floor, reinforced by steel girders to take the weight of the ...