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With Its Spectacular Views And Unsurpassed Setting, Hearst Castle In San Simeon, California, Was Always More Than A Grand Country House. Many Of Its Finest Features Were Outside, Not Inside. Newspaper Publisher William Randolph Hearst And Architect Julia Morgan Created La Cuesta Encantada (the Enchanted Hill), As They Called The Estate, From 1919 To 1947. The Long Construction History Of The Hilltop Complex Is Well Known, But The Story Of Hearst's Attachment To The Landscape At San Simeon - Encompassing 120 Acres Of Luxuriant Gardens And 450 Square Miles Of Pristine Coastland - Is Examined Here For The First Time. Julia Morgan, The First Woman To Study Architecture At The Ecole Des Beaux-arts, Had No Formal Training In Landscape Design, But For Nearly Thirty Years She Presided Over A Small Army Of Construction Workers Who Executed Every Element Of The Hilltop's Plan, Creating The Single Greatest Project Ever Designed By A Woman.^ Hearst Determined The Remote Site, A Sunny Slope At Sixteen Hundred Feet In Elevation Where He Had Camped Since Boyhood. Collaborating On Every Aspect Of The Design, Hearst And Morgan Devised Formal Terraces And Garden Areas To Frame Sweeping Views Of The

Author

Victoria Kastner; photography by Victoria Garagliano

Publisher

Harry N. Abrams

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780810972902

Subjects

History, Historical Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.9 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14