Searles Castle (Massachusetts)
Searles Castle | |
Searles Castle | |
| Location | 389 Main Street, Great Barrington, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°11′31″N 73°21′45″W / 42.19194°N 73.36250°W |
| Area | 64 acres (26 ha) |
| Built | 1883 |
| Built by | Norcross Bros. |
| Architect | Stanford White (McKim, Meade & White) |
| Architectural style | Renaissance, Chateauesque |
| NRHP reference No. | 82004953 |
| Added to NRHP | April 15, 1982 |
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.