{"id":4125,"date":"2012-01-28T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4125"},"modified":"2012-01-27T15:58:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:58:44","slug":"herreshoff-castle-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4125","title":{"rendered":"Herreshoff Castle (1926)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are a number of interesting castles<\/a> in Massachusetts. Herreshoff Castle<\/a>, at 2 Crocker Park in Marblehead, was built in 1926 by artist Waldo Ballard<\/a> and his wife. Ballard restored many old houses<\/a> in Marblehead. The castle was originally called Castle Brattahlid and was intended to recreate Erik the Red<\/a>‘s castle at Brattahl\u00ed\u00f0<\/a> (“Steep Slope”), in Greenland<\/a>. In 1945, the Ballards sold the castle<\/a> to L. Francis Herreshoff<\/a>, son the yacht<\/a> designer Nathanael Herreshoff<\/a>. After Herreshoff<\/a> died in 1972, he left the castle<\/a> to a longtime assistant. The present owners<\/a> bought it in 1990 and operate<\/a> the castle<\/a>‘s similarly Gothic-style<\/a> attached carriage house<\/a> as a one-unit bed & breakfast<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a number of interesting castles in Massachusetts. Herreshoff Castle, at 2 Crocker Park in Marblehead, was built in 1926 by artist Waldo Ballard and his wife. Ballard restored many old houses in Marblehead. The castle was originally called Castle Brattahlid and was intended to recreate Erik the Red‘s castle at Brattahl\u00ed\u00f0 (“Steep Slope”), in Greenland. In 1945, the Ballards sold the castle to L. Francis Herreshoff, son the yacht designer Nathanael Herreshoff. After Herreshoff died in 1972, he left the castle to a longtime assistant. The present owners bought it in 1990 and operate the castle‘s similarly Gothic-style […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,8,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gothic","category-houses","category-marblehead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4125"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4132,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions\/4132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}