Subjects for the web-page. These web-pages contain facts and information on the following: The development of Feudalism, The Crusades, The Magna Carta, The Hundred Years' War, The Black Death, and the disagreements between popes and kings.
MANTECA -- Michael Hat built an. empire from sickly vineyards that catapulted him from class secretary at Ripon. High School to one of the premier growers of wine grapes in California. The center of his empire was to. be a columned mansion he built in 1995 south of Manteca for himself, his wife. and the couple's four children, a mansion worthy of a king.
Construction began in 1924 and was completed two years later at a then staggering cost of $1.5 million. Five stories tall, the 36,000 square foot mansion has 41 rooms and 15 bathrooms. Mable supervised every aspect of the building, down to the mixing of the terra cotta and the glazing of the tiles.