Neptune Pool Hearst Castle Youth T-Shirt

Neptune Pool

Construction for the Neptune Pool spanned 1924-1936. Three swimming pools were built on this site, each successively larger. Initial plans for the site called for a ˇ°Temple Gardenˇ± with an ornamental pool and temple structure. On March 31, 1924, W.R. Hearst wrote in a letter to Julia Morgan, ˇ°I am sending back the plan of the temple garden with the suggestion that we make the pool longer than it is, as long as a swimming pool. Mrs. Hearst and the children are extremely anxious to have a swimming pool!ˇ± On June 17, 1924, Morgan wrote that the first swimming pool was nearing completion: ˇ°Mr. Neptune and the two ladies can be placed but the finished basins will take some time yet.ˇ±

The second version of the pool, a substantial enlargement, was created in 1926-1927. This version had a series of concrete steps at the southern side called the Cascade, down which water flowed. The Neptune and Nereid statues, presently in the temple pediment, then stood a...

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