Mystery Castle

A fun place for family picnic. It is made of stones and other unique materials and is very pretty and enchanting to look at and a great place to take out of town visitors. Children have load of fun exploring the rooms with all the vivid colors and looking through the vast collection of small and strange house objects.

Posted 09/14/06 | Report Abuse

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Mystery castle - one of Phoenix's "Points of Pride" - was built by Boyce Luther Gulley in 1927 after he was daignosed with tuberculosis. He didn't want his daughter, Mary, to see him dying, so he moved from Seattle to Phoenix & built her this eternal monument filled with love, history, Native American art and antiquity.

Walking through a maze of 18 different rooms, visitors experience a riot of color and emotions as brown wood blends with orange brick, gray stone merges into white lace, and green glass into scarlet red sofas designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The 3-story structure is built of native stone (some with petroglyphs on them), adobe and automobile parts, and is held together by an odd mixture of sand, cement, calcium and goat's milk.

Adding to its mystique are fascinating artifacts, such as the 13 fireplaces, a grotto tavern with "bunks for the drunk", and a chapel where a creepy figure of Elise, the "chocolate widow" of Tombstone, sits frozen at the piano.

Posted 08/20/05 | Report Abuse

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This is actually a large house,as well as being a type of castle,but not a royal type castle.The original owner's daughter still lives there and gives tours to the public.It is made of stone and other narural materials and it took many years to complete.It has quite an interesting history .The rooms are so unique!

Posted 06/30/05 | Report Abuse

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