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Edward F. Searles Estate in Methuen, Massachusetts Dream House, now known as Searles Mansion, Block Island, Rhode Island Constructed 1886–1888 as a home for Searles and his wife, it had a "twin house" design with each of the Searles' having a separate identical side of the mansion.
The school was named for Edward Francis Searles, whose deceased wife, Mary Hopkins Searles, was a Great Barrington native and had been the wife of Mark Hopkins, Jr., one of California's railroad barons. [3]
On November 7, 1887, Mary Hopkins married Edward Francis Searles. On the occasion of this marriage, She gave her home in Menlo Park to her adopted son Timothy. The Searles together built Searles Castle in Great Barrington on the grounds of the Kellogg Terrace home that Mary Searles had owned since 1881. [citation needed]
In 1887 his adopted mother, Mary Hopkins, married her interior decorator, Edward Francis Searles, and when she died in 1891 her will explicitly disinherited Timothy Hopkins and left her fortune to her new husband. The will was challenged and though the husband eventually won, Timothy was given several million dollars.
Mark Hopkins died in 1878 and Mary Hopkins married Edward Francis Searles, who had designed the interior while the castle was being built. He was 23 years younger than she was. Hopkins died in 1891, but Searles maintained the castle until his death in 1920. [3] After Searles died, the structure was used as a private girls' school for 30 years. [3]
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Edward Francis Searles was dispatched by Herter Brothers to manage the completion of Mary's project. Despite being 22 years her junior they developed a close relationship. The unseemly courtship raised eyebrows and questions about the motives of the decorator in the wealthy social circles of San Francisco, but they married in 1887 to begin a ...
Searles Castle, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, completed 1883. Designed by McKim, Mead & White for Mary Hopkins, widow of Mark Hopkins Jr. She commissioned Edward Francis Searles to design the interior and eventually married him. It is a stone Châteauesque style mansion with 40 rooms and seven turrets.