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Gillette Castle State Park straddles the towns of East Haddam and Lyme, Connecticut in the United States, sitting high above the Connecticut River. The castle was designed and built by William Gillette (1853–1937), an American actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes on stage. Gillette lived here from 1919 until his death in 1937.
Gillette Castle, Hadlyme, Connecticut, built in 1914 for William Gillette. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] Givins Beverly Castle, Chicago, Illinois, home of the Beverly Unitarian Church and built in 1887 by Robert C. Givins and inspired by a similar castle he saw on a trip to Ireland. [32]
William Hooker Gillette (July 24, 1853 – April 29, 1937) was an American actor-manager, playwright, and stage manager in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best remembered for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage and in a 1916 silent film.
Gillette Castle — that eccentric-looking mansion of jagged stones that gazes over the Connecticut River on the East Haddam-Lyme town line — opens to the public from Memorial Day weekend to ...
Hearthstone Castle is significant not only for its design, which anticipates the Gillette Castle built in Hadlyme by William Gillette by almost two decades, but for its fine construction and its exceptional preservation as an estate, with all of its major outbuildings intact. It reflects a nineteenth-century taste among newly rich Americans for ...
Gillette Castle State Park: East Haddam: Middlesex: Historic house: Unusual early 20th-century "castle" home built by actor William Gillette, famous for his portrayals of Sherlock Holmes: Glass House: New Canaan: Fairfield: Historic house: Modern house designed and owned by architect Philip Johnson: Glebe House: Woodbury: Litchfield: Historic house
The Spanish did build some castles in the Americas, but none in the United States. Although in name, Castillo de San Marcos would seem to be a castle, it actually belongs to a later period of Spanish fortress building in the Americas (the second period, or " bastion period ", as it is known).
A Medieval-inspired castle built between the mid-1980s and 1990 in Rochester, Michigan, is on sale for $3.2 million. An exterior view of LeBlanc Castle in Rochester, Michigan, built in 1990 ...