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Hearst Castle at San Simeon is probably the most famous private residence ever built in America. This magnificent book presents it in all its fabled splendor, a unique synthesis of art, architecture, landscape, and legend. Planning of the Enchanted Hill began in 1919, when William Randolph Hearst asked architect Julia Morgan to plan something more substantial than the tents long used for camping trips near the family ranch. San Simeon-perfectly situated halfway between San Francisco, the base of his publishing empire, and Los Angeles, where he was determined to make Marion Davies into the greatest of movie stars-took more than 30 years, and many millions of dollars, to complete. The estate finally encompassed the Castle (La Casa Grande), three guest houses, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, and the largest grounds of any private dwelling in the United States. Long the favored playground of the powerful and glamorous figures of Hollywood, government, finance, and industry, the estate was given to the State of California after Hearst's death and has since become the state's greatest tourist attraction, second only to Disneyland. Here is the complete story of Hearst Castle, Author Th

Author

text by Thomas R. Aidala; photographs by Curtis Bruce

Publisher

New York: Hudson Hills: Trade distribution by Simon & Schuster

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780933920194

Subjects

Art, History, Historical Fiction