Thornewood
Thornewood | |
Thornewood under construction in 1910. | |
| Location | Lakewood, Washington |
|---|---|
| Built | 1909–1911 |
| Architect | Kirtland Kelsey Cutter |
| Architectural style | English Gothic |
| NRHP reference No. | 82004283[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 18, 1982 |
Thornewood is an English Gothic estate in what is now Lakewood, Washington. It consists of three buildings, including Thornewood Castle, which was built from the brick of a dismantled 15th-century house imported from England.
History
Chester Thorne, a successful financier and one of the founders of the Port of Tacoma, began the process of building his estate in Lakewood, Washington when he purchased an Elizabethan manor in England in 1907, intending to disassemble the house and ship its material to the West Coast of the United States. Thornewood was assembled over the span of three years, beginning in 1908 and finishing in 1911.
The Castle was used as a set for the Stephen King film Rose Red, playing the role of the eponymous estate.[2] The miniseries began filming at Thornewood and in Seattle (where Rose Red is located in the story) on August 22, 2000, and was completed in mid-December 2000, with the finished series released in January 2002. The fictional estate of Rose Red was depicted as considerably larger than even the actual Thornewood, which is considered to be around 27,000 square feet among all its interior rooms.
Several exterior shots of the castle were also used in the popular Netflix horror show The Haunting of Bly Manor. [3] [4]
The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and is currently a bed and breakfast, vacation, wedding, and event rental facility.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ Dunkelberger, Steve; Neary, Walter (2005). Lakewood. Arcadia Publishing. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-7385-3045-1.
- ^ "The Haunting of Bly Manor". IMDb.
- ^ "Advanced search". IMDb.
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