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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]
Morgan became William Randolph Hearst's principal architect, producing the designs for dozens of buildings, such as Phoebe Apperson Hearst's Wyntoon, which he inherited. The estate includes a castle and "Bavarian village" of four villas, all on 50,000 acres (202 km 2 ) of forest reserve that includes the McCloud River near Mount Shasta in ...
Abandoning the massive castle idea, Hearst instead asked Morgan to design a "Bavarian Village" with multiple half-timbered buildings in the medieval style of Germany or Austria. [13] Hearst sent Morgan to Europe to study suitable buildings; she brought fine artist Doris Day with her to investigate architectural inscriptions and painting styles.
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Hearst Castle: San Simeon, California: William Randolph Hearst: California Department of Parks and Recreation: 1947: Spanish Colonial Revival: Julia Morgan: 17: 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: 18: 66,000 sq ft ...
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 ...
more images: Huntington Residence: 1909: Mediterranean Revival: Myron Hunt: San Marino: Former residence of Henry E. Huntington, now an art gallery. [10] 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 ...
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