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| View Original: | Small turret across the road from the Berkeley Springs Castle. It may have been used as a place marker on the twisting road, along which visitors can otherwise easily pass the castle high above LCCN2015631469.tif.tiff (0x0) | |||
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| Keywords: Small turret across the road from the Berkeley Springs Castle. It may have been used as a place marker on the twisting road, along which visitors can otherwise easily pass the castle high above LCCN2015631469.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 055 ; Credit line West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Once called the Samuel Taylor Suit Cottage in an era when lavish mansions were sometimes dismissed as mere cottages the castle is located on a hill above Berkeley Springs Built for Colonel Samuel Taylor Suit of Washington D C as a personal retreat near the spa town beginning in 1885 it was not complete by the time of his death in 1888 and was finished in the early 1890s for his widow Rosa Pelham Suit The design is attributed to Washington architect Alfred B Mullett who is alleged to have drawn a rough sketch of the plan on a tablecloth at the Berkeley Springs Hotel The design may have been based on elements of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire United Kingdom Detailed design and construction supervision was carried out by Snowden Ashford ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Forms part of West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015631469 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/31300/31394a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 31394 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 31394 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||