Zebras graze at the Hearst Castle Zoo in San Simeon, California, 1955. Photo by Gado Images / Alamy Stock Photo. By 1925, Casa Grande was complete, with its soaring twin Spanish bell towers.

Hearst Castle in northern San Luis Obispo County is expected to reopen in March or April after an extended pandemic and renovation closure. It will open with a new museum director.

When he left his castle in 1947 for the last time because of health troubles, Hearst still viewed it as incomplete. He died in 1951. Seven years later, Hearst Corp. donated the hilltop and the 2 ...

Hearst Castle stopped giving tours on March 16, 2020, due to COVID-19 so the monument saw the same imbalance between expenses and income March through June 2020, Falat said. Road repairs to keep ...

Hearst and architect Julia Morgan started their collaboration on the castle in 1919. The estate consists of a 115-room main house, three guest houses, pools and 127 acres of terraced gardens ...

Hearst Castle gets 860,000 visitors a year, according to the Los Angeles Times, with revenue totaling $16.2 million in 2019. The estate, ...

Once the playground of Hollywood's most famous stars, journalists, and politicians, William Randolph Hearst's California mansion will always be worth the trip. Hearst Castle, palace to the stars ...

Known today as the Hearst Castle, the publishing tycoon’s unfinished La Cuesta Encantada (“Enchanted Hill”) features 38 bedrooms, 41 fireplaces and famous swimming pools. But perhaps as notable as the ...