Gillette's estate in East Haddam
by Carol M Highsmith
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Gillette's estate in East Haddam
Artist
Carol M Highsmith
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Photograph - Prints, Posters & Canvas
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Gillette's estate, called Seventh Sister, was built in 1914 on a 184-acre (74 ha) tract on top of the southernmost of a chain of hills known as the Seven Sisters. After Gillette died, with no wife or children, his will precluded the possession of his castle by any "blithering sap-head who has no conception of where he is or with what surrounded". Connecticut's government took over the property in 1943, renaming the home as Gillette's Castle and the estate as Gillette Castle State Park. The estate was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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March 19th, 2014
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