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Mystery Castle

Fodor's Review:

At the foot of South Mountain lies a curious dwelling built from desert rocks by Boyce Gulley, who came to Arizona to cure his tuberculosis. Boyce's daughter Mary Lou has lived here since her father's death in 1945 and leads tours on request. Full of fascinating oddities, the castle has 18 rooms with 13 fireplaces, a downstairs grotto tavern, a roll-away bed with a mining railcar as its frame, and some original pieces of Frank Lloyd Wright-designed furniture. The pump organ belonged to Elsie, the Widow of Tombstone, who buried six husbands under suspicious circumstances.

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