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Searles Castle (Massachusetts)

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Searles Castle is a French chateau style house at 389 Main Street in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, commissioned in 1875 and completed in 1886 by Mark Hopkins, a treasurer and founder of the Central Pacific Railroad, for his wife Mary Sherwood Hopkins. Hopkins died in 1878 before the house was finished, and Mary later married Edward Francis Searles, who designed much of the interior; the architect of record was Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead and White. The seven story house has about forty rooms, 54,246 square feet of floor space, thirty six fireplaces, and a basement room known as the dungeon, built in a mix of Renaissance and Chateauesque styles. Mary Hopkins Searles died in 1891 and Edward Searles kept the house until his own death in 1920; the artist Hunt Slonem purchased the property in 2021 for 3.25 million dollars.

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Building Type
Castle 1
Building Type
House 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Great Barrington, United States 2
Completed Year
1886 1
Heritage Designation
US National Register of Historic Places 3
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
Building Type (category)
Castle 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
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Chateauesque Architecture, Styles and Movements
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Renaissance Architecture, Styles and Movements
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Uses Element

Stone, Architectural Materials
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1. Searles Castle (Massachusetts) (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searles_Castle_(Massachusetts), lead definition
    The Searles Castle is a French chateau-style castle-style house in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
  • Lead section
    The Searles Castle is a French chateau-style castle-style house in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
  • Infobox: built
    1886
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (castle)
    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. There are 40 rooms containing 54,246 square feet (5,039.6 m2) of floor space, as well as 36 fireplaces.
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (House)
    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. There are 40 rooms containing 54,246 square feet (5,039.6 m2) of floor space, as well as 36 fireplaces.
  • In Style: Renaissance Architecture, Infobox: architecture
    Renaissance, Chateauesque
  • In Style: Chateauesque Architecture, Infobox: architecture
    Renaissance, Chateauesque
  • Uses Element: Stone, Article text
    The stone of the exterior of the castle is blue dolomite.
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2. Searles Castle (Massachusetts) (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Great Barrington, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Great Barrington, United States
Wikidata item Q7441763, property P131/P17 (location): Great Barrington, United States
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3. National Park Service: National Register of Historic Places registration form: Searles Castle (Massachusetts)
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ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
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