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Aug 8, 2018 · Explore the hidden doors and secret rooms of the 250-room Vanderbilt mansion in Asheville, North Carolina. Learn how these spaces were used for privacy, convenience, and decor in the Gilded Age.
- The hidden connection to the Underground Railroad. This house, located in Litchfield, Connecticut, has hidden rooms that were part of the Underground Railroad, Kris Lippi, a realtor with Get Listed Realty, tells Reader’s Digest.
- The secret prison cell. When Cristhian Perez, a home inspector in Tampa, Florida, thinks about the hidden room he discovered during one home inspection, he still gets goosebumps.
- The Prohibition closet. Amber Moore was excited to be living in a historic 1920s home in Dunthorpe, Oregon, even before discovering its secret. One day, when her daughters were playing in a closet in the library, they put their feet on the wall… and it moved!
- The secret speakeasy. There’s a secret drinking room in the historic Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore, according to Jeff Miller, co-founder of Dependable Homebuyers.
- Singer Castle
- The Wolf’s Lair
- The Murder Castle
- House of The Seven Gables
- The Darwin House
- Dunnerden
- Britannia Manor
- Dan Brown’s House
- Sessions House
- Dunster House, Harvard
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In 1896, Frederick Bourne, the president of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, purchased Dark Island in the middle of the St. Lawrence River in New York. Bourne then constructed a castle chock full of things you usually only find in an episode of Scooby Doo: walls that slide back to reveal stone staircases, paintings that allow a host to eavesdrop ...
Luxist/Moby Now owned by Moby, the Wolf’s Lair Castlein Hollywood was once owned by L. Milton Wolf, one of the early developers of Hollywoodland. Wolf certainly had eclectic taste - as evidenced by the photos of the house from several years ago, when it was for sale - and that includes a penchant for secret passages. Secret passages leading to secr...
WeirdChicago In 1889, Herman W. Mudgett built a hotel in Chicago in preparation for the influx of tourists the Windy City was sure to experience with the upcoming 1893 World’s Fair. With trap doors, secret stairways and unexpected chutes to the basement, the hotel sounds like a mystery fun house - but as you probably gathered from the name of the p...
Salem.org The Nathaniel Hawthorne book by the same name inspired a secret passage in the original House of the Seven Gables, which inspired the novel. Confused? Backtrack to 1851, when Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a book which had a setting inspired by the house his cousin grew up in. In 1908, the house was purchased by a philanthropist who restored i...
In 2007, John Darwin of Hartlepool, England, popped up at a police station, claiming to be suffering from amnesia. His wife had reported him missing some five years earlier; he was eventually declared dead. The widow Darwin then made several insurance and pension claims totalling £250,000, so you probably know the end of this story: it was was late...
With 1,700 feet of secret passageways - that’s nearly six football fields - it’s probably no surprise that the owner of Dunnerdennear Aspen, CO, was the man who produced the Myst computer games. Doug Carlston, the co-founder of Brøderbund Software, has file cabinets in his house that conceal doors, dresser drawers that serve as passageways to other...
Doug Carlston isn’t the only video game developer with a penchant for sneakiness. Richard Garriott, developer of the Ultimagames (among others) has a hideaway in Austin that has an entire three-story spiral staircase concealed in the center of the house. The staircase opens up into all kinds of hidden rooms, including a wine cellar, a dungeon, and ...
Wouldn't you know the author who loves to weave ancient secret passages and rooms into all of his best-selling books has a few hidden spots in his own house. He showed Matt Lauer a few of them in 2013.
In 1710, Captain Jonathan Hunt built what was maybe one of the earliest panic rooms in the nation. When he built his Northampton, Mass., house, Hunt included a secret passageway meant to keep his family safe from Native American attacks. These days, it’s a residence hall at Smith College, and popular local legend says that the passageway is haunted...
Among many hidden rooms and secret passageways at Harvard are bookcases in the Dunster House library that swing aside to reveal hidden chambers. In fact, Charles Kletzsch, Harvard’s composer-in-residence, lived in one of the secret rooms to save money for many years.
Learn about the history and stories behind some of the most famous and mysterious houses with hidden rooms and secret passages. From the Murder Castle to the House of the Seven Gables, these homes have seen murder, fraud, romance, and adventure.
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- A child’s dresser that opens up into a secret playroom: apartmenttherapy.com.
- A hidden room behind a bookshelf in Steamboat Springs, Colorado: stashvault.com.
- The offices of Steelhead Partners has a hidden pub: carimullaney.blogspot.com.
- This child’s wardrobe opens up into their own Narnia play room: io9.com.
Oct 23, 2017 · Learn how to create a secret door, a high security room, a wine cellar, a bat cave and more with these creative ideas. See photos and tips for hidden rooms in your house or yard.
Jun 24, 2013 · Explore the history and modern uses of hidden doors, tunnels, and chambers in various locations. From pyramids to bunkers, from libraries to garages, see how these secret spaces have shaped the world.
Mar 27, 2014 · Mar 27, 2014. 20 Secret Rooms You’ll Wish You Had In Your Own Home. Lina D. BoredPanda staff. 59. 7. ADVERTISEMENT. Whether they remind you of Chicago speakeasies, medieval assassination plots or Cold-War precautions, secret rooms and passages have an undeniable mystique and appeal to them.
