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The Searles Castle is a French chateau-style castle-style house in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. [2] Built in the 1880s, the romantically imagined structure has seven stories and includes a "dungeon" basement.
Searles Castle History. Searles is said to have employed the finest masons and woodworkers to construct the castle, and imported marble and artifacts from Europe to furnish it. Examples of the fine work are found in the carved oak balcony, and the marble fireplaces.
9 Αυγ 2017 · GREAT BARRINGTON — Upon her death in July 1891, Mary Frances Sherwood Hopkins Searles would be remembered as a philanthropist who shunned ostentation and the notorious social gatherings of America's elite.
15 Σεπ 2024 · The Searles Castle is a French chateau-style castle-style house in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. [2] Built in the 1880s, the romantically imagined structure has seven stories and includes a "dungeon" basement.
Searles Castle is one of a few of the gilded cottages in the Berksires, but unlike most of the others that are in Lenox or Stockbridge, this one is located in downtown great Barrington. This elaborate manor house, was designed to look like a castle, done in the French-Chateau style.
The castle was intended to be a 1/4-scale replica of the medieval Tudor manor of Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, England, but since most of the manor had been torn down in the 18th century, the castle bears little resemblance to the historical structure.
15 Μαρ 2007 · Rumors of scandal, infidelity, fraud, and murder, have all at one point weaved their way into the castle's legacy, along with whispers of hidden staircases, secret tunnels and restless ghosts. The castle's story revolves around Mary Hopkins Searles, born Mary Frances Sherwood in Great Barrington in 1826.
