Stately homes of California . that austere beauty which moun-tains usually possess and which demands a certain mood forits enjoyment. Spaciousness without austerity, which is characteristic ofthe landscape around the Hacienda del Pozo de Verona,is characteristic too of its exterior and its interior. The house grounds which one would judge to be aboutthirty acres in extent, are part of a five-hundred-acre tractand are inclosed by a square-cut cypress hedge whichclambers up the irregular contour of the hillside very muchas the Great Wall clambers over the mountains of front of the mansi
Stately homes of California . that austere beauty which moun-tains usually possess and which demands a certain mood forits enjoyment. Spaciousness without austerity, which is characteristic ofthe landscape around the Hacienda del Pozo de Verona,is characteristic too of its exterior and its interior. The house grounds which one would judge to be aboutthirty acres in extent, are part of a five-hundred-acre tractand are inclosed by a square-cut cypress hedge whichclambers up the irregular contour of the hillside very muchas the Great Wall clambers over the mountains of front of the mansion stretch lawns picked out with orna-mental plants, while behind it, the tree-covered hillsidefacing the valley proves upon closer inspection to be, inthat portion of it immediately adjacent to the house, asuccession of rock terraces, threaded with winding pathsand thickly set with flowers. The architecture of the Hacienda del Pozo de Verona 22 HACIENDA DEL POZO DE VERONA Residence of Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst Near P le asanton. RESIDENCE OF MRS. PHOEBE A. HEARST is Spanish in character, but it is not of the type with whichwe are generally familiar in California and from which theso-called Mission style has been derived. For Mrs. Hearstsresidence the term Hispano-Moresque would be moreaccurately descriptive. The original building, as to style, plan, and arrangement,is the work of the late A. C. Schweinfurth; the extensiveadditions were designed by Miss Julia Morgan. The walls of the house, finished in white stucco, supporta roof of red Spanish tiles. Although accented by decora-tive grilles in front of the windows of the second story andof the towers, the wall surfaces retain their simplicity. Thegrilles, however, give to the building an interesting anddistinctive character further enhanced by the essentiallySpanish device of gutters that pierce and project beyondthe walls, and by the red earthen pots placed at intervalsalong the parapets. These grilles represent one of the manyde
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