Thornewood Castle

 mansion / manor house / villa, bed and breakfast

Thornewood Castle Inn and Gardens
8601 North Thorne Lane Southwest
Tacoma, WA 98498, WA 98498
(253) 584-4393
www.thornewoodcastle.com/

Thornewood Castle, a three-story manor home dating from the turn of the century, consists of over 27,000 square feet of living space, 54 rooms, including 28 bedrooms and 22 baths. It was built for Chester Thorne, one of the founders of the Port of Tacoma. Kertland Kelsey Cutter, architect. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtland_Cutter

Thornewood Castle is constructed with concrete and steel on a solid three-foot-thick foundation. Exterior walls are brick, eighteen inches thick and the floors are ten inches of concrete. Construction took three years to complete, from 1908 to 1911, with many of the materials, including the brick, oak paneling, oak staircase and the medieval stained glass coming from a castle in Europe. Three ships were commissioned to transport these building supplies around Cape Horn to the Pacific Northwest. The cost of construction in 1911 was approximately one million dollars; today, this same structure is estimated at $30,000,000 to replace.

The red brick facing on the outside of the estate was imported from Wales. A massive grand staircase and solid oak doors, both wood-pegged by old world craftsmen, represents only a few of the interior finishes imported to the castle from a 15th century mansion in England. A priceless collection of rare artwork, hand painted onto glass surrounded by panes of crystal, are mounted in windows throughout the state. Created in the 15th to 17th centuries, they were previously owned by an English duke who spent 40 years collecting the lost art.

Shooting location for Stephen King's "Rose Red" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Red_(film)

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