Gillette Castle State Park

The Gillette Castle State Park is a 74 acre park area between Lyme and East Haddam on the border of Middlesex County and New London, Connecticut, USA. Between 1914 and 1919 there Gillette Castle was built. 1943 earned the state's property and established a State Park. Since 1986, the building is on the National Register of Historic Places under the number 86,002,103.

Gillette Castle in Lyme overlooking the Connecticut River, was originally the private residence of the actor William Gillette.

Gillette, known primarily as a stage actor of Sherlock Holmes designed the castle-like peculiar house on his estate "Seventh Sister" essentially self When he died anhanglos took over the state of Connecticut, the property and turned it into a state park, which now annually by about 300,000 persons is visited.

Among the peculiarities of the house include a special door knobs and locks and a secret passage and covert surveillance mirror.

A once existing private railway was dismantled to a large extent.

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Ruins of a stone bridge