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, ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...