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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 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]
Phoebe Hearst also built other structures including The Gables—a storybook dwelling for overflow guests—and a "Honeymoon Cottage". [1] The castle was habitable in 1902, completely finished in 1904. [8] It was featured in American Homes and Gardens in 1906, a three-page spread; the same space given the house in Architectural Review in 1904. [16]
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 ]
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]
Hearst Castle: the grand mansion of publisher William Randolph Hearst at San Simeon, California; Lovell House by Richard Neutra; Neverland Ranch, the home of musician Michael Jackson, in Santa Barbara County, California; The Playboy Mansion: magazine publisher Hugh Hefner's mansion
The Hacienda, Hearst Castle, Hearst Ranch 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 .
This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes. [1]
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.