$9 Million Castle For Sale in Massachusetts (House of the Day)

We love castles, so when we got word that the stunning Searles Hopkins Castle hit the market, we jumped all over it. A Louis XIV drawing room? French, chateau-style architecture circa 1888? Forty-two-foot domed ceilings and massive stone terraces? Yes, please!

The castle, located in Great Barrington, Mass., has hit the market for a kingly $8.995 million. (Think that's expensive? It initially hit the market for $15 million in 2007.) It consists of 61 sprawling acres, and boasts over a thousand feet of water frontage on the banks of the Housatonic River. At a whopping 52,245 square feet, it's currently the second biggest house in America on the market.

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Stacey Matthews of the Matthews Group has the listing.

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