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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 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 .
more images: Hearst Castle: Between 1919 and 1947: Spanish Colonial Revival, Mediterranean Revival: Julia Morgan: San Simeon: Built by William Randolph Hearst [7] more images: Filoli: 1915: Georgian Revival: Willis Polk: Woodside: Owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and open to the public [11] more images: Carolands: 1916 ...
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 ]
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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George Hearst (September 3, 1820 – February 28, 1891) was an American businessman, politician, and patriarch of the Hearst business dynasty. After growing up on a small farm in Missouri, he founded many mining operations, and is known for developing and expanding the Homestake Mine in the late 1870s in the Black Hills of South Dakota .