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| | Introduction to Images of the Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California, by Julia Morgan. |
 | | Although Phoebe Apperson Hearst had aided Julia Morgan's early career, her more famous son, William Randolph Hearst, the publishing magnate, art collector, and movie producer, entered Morgan's life with the commissioning of a Sausalito house (1912-14), which was never built, and a cottage on his Grand Canyon property (1914), since demolished. |
 | | In 1919 Hearst and Morgan began discussions about a residence on the top of a hill in the Santa Lucia mountains near San Simeon--a hilltop called "Camp Hill" by the family. |
 | | Hearst and his family had camped on this hill in tents erected on wooden platforms when they vacationed on his 250,000 acre Piedra Blanca Ranch during the first two decades of the 20th century. |
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