The heiress and her chateau
Subtitle: Carolands of California
By: produced and directed by Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg
Contributors: Metzger, Tim; Holt, Lorri; Boekelheide, Todd, composer; Luna Productions; San Mateo County Historical Association; KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher: Luna Productions
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Domestic Architecture; Local History; Carolands (Hillsborough, Calif.); Historic buildings; History
Description: Harriet Pullman Carolan, heiress to the Pullman railroad car company fortune, constructed the 98-room chateau Carolands in 1915-16.  Willis Polk supervised construction of the American Renaissance-design residence, which is an adaptation of Vaux le Vicomte, and also a prototype for the Palace of Versailles.  In the early 1950s, Countess Lillian Remillard Dandini acquired the chateau and the six remaining acres of land.
Notes: Produced in association with San Mateo Historical Association.

Broadcast  Jan. 19, 2014, on KQED-TV, San Francisco.

Producers/directors: Catherine Ryan, Gary Weimberg; cinematographer: Tim Metzger; Editor/writer: Gary Weimberg; director of photography: Tim Metzger; original music by Todd Boekelheide.

Narrator: Lorri Holt.

DVD.