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 Street.

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, ...

A Windham landmark is thriving these days. Searles Castle was built as a place to entertain and that's exactly what it does today, hosting close to 100 weddings a year. Tonight we take a tour ...

Searles Castle in Great Barrington was named the best castle in Massachusetts by HomeAdvisor, a digital marketplace for home services. The website recently listed all the best castles in each state.

WINDHAM — Memories of loved ones and cherished wedding days are funding the restoration of Searles Castle. "We're on our way," Sister Josette Parisi, manager of the castle, said yesterday. The ...

Hopkins died in 1891, after which Searles built another castle, in Windham, N.H. After Searles’ death in 1920, the Great Barrington castle spent the next 30 years as a private school for girls.