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Mystery Castle is located in the city of Phoenix, Arizona, in the foothills of South Mountain Park. It was built in the 1930s by Boyce Luther Gulley for his daughter Mary Lou Gulley. After learning he had tuberculosis, Gulley moved from Seattle to the Phoenix area and began building the house from found or inexpensive materials.
May 28, 2018 · Mystery Castle stands in the foothills of South Mountain Park; once alone in the desert, Phoenix is now rushing up to meet it. It was the work of Seattle advertising man, Boyce Luther Gulley, who, in 1929, was diagnosed with tuberculosis.
Dec 17, 2010 · PHOENIX — On a moonlit night in 1945, Mary Lou Gulley took a taxi to the base of South Mountain and discovered the secret her father had been keeping for 16 years. There, amid the rocks and crevices, rose a five-story castle, the fulfillment of a promise her father, Boyce Luther Gulley, finished not long before he died.
Apr 19, 2024 · Located in the foothills of South Mountain Park, it was built in the 1930s by Boyce Luther Gulley who, like a whole lot of other people, moved to Phoenix about 100 years ago to recover from tuberculosis. Once he had, he set about building a castle for his young daughter, Mary Lou.
Feb 18, 2011 · Construction on the castle started in 1929, when the builder, Boyce Luther Gulley, drove to Phoenix from Seattle in a Stutz Bearcat. He'd been diagnosed with tuberculosis, and, figuring he...
May 16, 2014 · It sounds too cute to be true, but who knows what Boyce Luther Gulley's motives really were? The facts are fairly straightforward: He left Seattle in the late 1920s, leaving his wife,...
Boyce Luther Gulley, a Seattle businessman with some training in architectural engineering, was fond of sculpting elaborate sand castles for his young daughter, Mary Lou. In 1927, shortly after he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, a frequently fatal disease at that time, Gulley vanished.
