THE SEARLES CASTLE IN GREAT BARRINGTON HAS BEEN CALLED THE LARGEST PRIVATE HOME IN MASSACHUSETTS. THIS IS A PRETTY BIG HOUSE. IT’S REPUTED TO BE 68,000. I DON’T NEVER MEASURED IT. FORMER ...

The couple was married at Searles Castle in Windham, New Hampshire in August. A drone was employed during the reception to snap photos from a birds eye view. Kneena Ellis, of Seabrook ...

A power plant was located in a nearby house for the castle's electrical needs. The house cost $2.5 million to build and even more to decorate. The Searles, who married in a quiet ceremony in 1887, ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — The artist Hunt Slonem has purchased the Searles Castle, and says he will do what he always does with historic estates. “I’m a glamourizer,” said Slonem, who works in a studio in ...

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. (AP) — The Searles Castle has towered over this Berkshire town for 120 years, its seven turrets and blue dolomite stone exterior creating a fortress at the end of Main ...

The Searles Castle in Great Barrington looks like something out of a fairy tale. When Mary Hopkins decided to build the French-Chateau-style mansion in 1885, she hired McKim, Mean and White ...

WINDHAM — When Sister Josette Parisi walked into Searles Castle for the first time, there were no Napoleonic fireplaces or European artifacts. The space, now occupied by 12-foot-tall ...

Learn more. GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. (AP) – The Searles Castle has towered over this Berkshire town for 120 years, its seven turrets and blue dolomite exterior creating a fortress at the end of ...