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Title: La Hacienda del Pozo de Verona, Pleasanton (8 views)
Creator: Martin, Frederick W., 1878-1949
Contributor: Morgan, Julia, 1872-1957
Date Created and/or Issued: 1914
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: View 1 (MARTIN-2888). Courtyard with fountain -- view 2 (MARTIN-2890). Entrance -- view 3 (MARTIN-2892). Side of house -- view 4 (MARTIN-2893). Courtyard -- view 5 (MARTIN-2894). Side of house -- view 6 (MARTIN-2895). Pergola -- view 7 (MARTIN-2897). Pergola -- view 8 (MARTIN-2898). Gates.
George and Phoebe Hearst purchased part of Bernal Rancho southwest of Pleasanton (which also contained the Alisal Rancheria where a community of Ohlone Indians still resided). In 1880, William Randolph Hearst began building a mansion on the rancho, Phoebe Hearst took over construction, hiring the architect Julia Hunt Morgan. Mansion built in Mediterranean and California Mission style and named La Hacienda del Pozo de Verona. William Randolph Hearst sold property in 1924 to group of businessmen, became the Castlewood Country Club. Mansion served as clubhouse from 1925 to 1969 (when it burned).
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 8 photographic prints ; 6 x 8 in. and 8 x 6 in.
Identifier: (C)001378924CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-2171
Language: English
Subject: Hearst, Phoebe Apperson,, 1842-1919--Homes and haurnts--California--Pleasanton--Photographs
Mansions--California--Pleasanton
Fountains--California--Pleasanton
Gates--California--Pleasanton
Sundials--California--Pleasanton
Pergolas--California--Pleasanton
Pleasanton (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Pleasanton
Pleasanton (Calif.)

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