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 | Hearst CastleAn Interpretive History of W. R. Hearst's San Simeon Estate
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Media: Paperback
Item #: 1756 Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-944197-27-1
Pages: 96 Size: 9 x 12
Distributed by Mountain Press for: Companion Press
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| San Simeon—once open only by special invitation from wealthy host William Randolph Hearst—has attracted more than 35 million visitors since it opened to the public in 1958. This book tells the story of the collaboration between Hearst and architect Julia Morgan to create San Simeon, an intriguing blend of natural beauty, architecture, art, and history. Hearst was sole heir to his family's mining and real estate fortune. By his mid-twenties, he was a successful newspaper publisher who eventually parlayed his inheritance into a media empire. One afternoon in April of 1919, shortly before he inherited his fortune, William Randolph Hearst and Julia Morgan met in her San Francisco office to begin the design and planning of the most extraordinary residence ever to rise on the Pacific Coast, an estate with Mediterranean-influenced architecture to be filled with Hearst's vast collection of European art.
You are invited to step back in time to experience Hearst Castle as it was when the Hollywood elite, politicians, athletes, and other celebrities of the 1920s and 1930s enjoyed Hearst's hospitality. |
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