Searles Castle

Main St., Great Barrington, Massachusetts. County/parish: Berkshire.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 15, 1982. NRIS 82004953.

2 contributing buildings.

Also known as:

  • Barrington House
  • Hopkins-Searles Mansion
  • Kellogg Terrace

From Wikipedia:

Searles Castle (Massachusetts)

The Searles Castle is a French chateau-style castle-style house in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Built in the 1880s, the romantically imagined structure has seven stories and includes a "dungeon" basement. The castle was initially designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead and White, a famous New York architectural firm at the time. There are 40 rooms containing 54,246 square feet (5,039.6 m2) of floor space, as well as 36 fireplaces.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794176

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