About This Book
THE HEIRESS offers the ultimate insiders’ look at a perfectly restored Gilded Age Chateau, and the people who dreamed of life in such an architectural masterpiece, in California.
Made by Luna Productions and the Emmy award-winning filmmakers Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg, who received unprecedented access to the Chateau, filming took place for twenty days over 5 years. The research effort for the film was worldwide, gathering archival material including primary documents and drawings that have never before been seen publicly, all to bring to life the 98-year history of the 98-room chateau.
This high quality documentary includes interviews with architects and historians, owners and former owners of the Chateau,
crafts people who helped to rebuild and restore the home, as well as surviving relatives of Heiress Harriett Pullman Carolan.
Footage of the Chateau allows viewers their own privileged journey through the rooms both grand and small, as well as the little known secret passageways of the Chateau.
Most of all, this documentary is about the human beings behind this architectural masterpiece, beginning with Heiress Harriett Pullman Carolan whose grand passion created the largest house west of the Mississippi. Her inspiring vision has inspired owners ever since to save it over and over again from destruction, the sad fate of nearly all of the other grand homes from the Gilded Age.
The Heiress and Her Chateau: Caolands of California offers a three dimensional window into the life of America’s ultra-rich, and, along the way, provides vivid testimony to the truth that money cannot guarantee your dreams will come true.
