The home was commissioned by the Hearst family in 1930 as a recreation of America’s White House.
Hillsborough mansions tend toward grandeur, but this one, designed by the Bay Area’s treasured architect Julia Morgan, was meant to be grander than most.
The original mansion at 401 El Cerrito Ave. wasn’t what we see now. In fact, it wasn’t even located in the same spot. According to, cattle rancher William Henry Howard built the home in 1878. The next owner was silver baron Charles Frederick Crocker, whose family eventually sold to Burlingame contractor Charles Lundgren.
In the late 1920s, a fire seriously damaged the mansion. Its next owner, George Hearst — the eldest son of William Randolph Hearst — commissioned Julia Morgan to re-envision the home in the style of the presidential White House in 1930.
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