Hearst Castle, California
San Luis Obispo County · Card no. 6943
William Randolph Hearst's hilltop estate above San Simeon, designed by Julia Morgan over 28 years and never finished.
- The estate has 165 rooms and 127 acres of gardens.
- Hearst kept a private zoo whose zebras still graze the hillside.
- Morgan was the first woman licensed as an architect in California.
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