Door to dungeon? Don't know, it was not open to the public. They really could've opened it up sooner, the poor fellow sitting there is looking a little worse for wear. Probably got lost looking for the public restrooms.
Gatehouse/Belltower in foreground, Castle in back. View from parking to museum path.
"Ruins"
"Ruins" Colonnade appears to have some poured concrete features.
View out ruins, facing towards Boston. The Museum is the reddish-colored building.
Gatehouse/Belltower.
View down shore from path.
Castle from oceanside. You can see the mish-mash of building materials. Dressed stone (facade?) at base, rip-rap (fieldstone) above, and large amounts of cement.
Castle on right, Great Hall at center, Chateau at left. Note the flying buttresses.
Chateau, view from sea. Great Hall on right.
Medieval trefoil windows.
Chateau round tower.
Kitchen window.
View from seaside, looking towards museum.
Supporting buttresses on Chateau's sea side.
Window into round tower room. Simple Gothic window frame is of poured concrete segments. (If I recall correctly...)
Chateau tower.
Chateau at end of castle. You can see some of the glass for the end of the courtyard roof at upper left. The little archway leads to the door at the bottom of the colonnade in the courtyard.
The dormers for the bedrooms in the Chateau are at top. The sqare windows are to the offices and living rooms. The peaked tower at the top was inaccessible to the public, I have no idea where the access point was.
End of Chateau from front garden. The top windows were to the large (2 twin) Chateau bedroom. The lower windows are to some of the living areas.
Front of Chateau from front garden.
View from a small enclosed garden in front of Chateau. Facing Castle. Great Hall is just visible to the right.
Chateau on right, Great Hall on left.
Gatehouse with a large bell overhead, visible as you walk through.
Denizen of the castle grounds.
Castle front. Note the complete lack of windows. There is lots of cement in the mix that makes up these walls. Have a look at the difference between the semi-dressed stone at the base and the fieldstone at the top. I'm curious why they didn't go through and do some pointing to the work, there are some areas where some nice stonework has been done. Pointing in the overall scheme of things wouldn't have added that much work.
View from entrance colonnade down Castle front towards Chateau and front garden.
Secondary Castle entrance. (not drawbridge)
View from castle front towards Chateau.
Small door at base of Chateau's Castle side. No idea where it goes.
Chateau view from Castle front.
Front of Chateau.
Not very visible Medieval carving overhead door.
View down Chateau front towards castle.
Museum shop.
First view from museum in lower castle, towards garden.
Very small hallway, 2 feet wide. Door ahead inaccessible, door to left leads to chapel.
Inaccessible door.
Architectural drawings in castle.
Armory, armorer's shop straight ahead.
Spiral staircase in castle, view from chapel.
Chapel.
Drawbridge door on right. Stairs down to Great Hall ahead around corner.
View back towards museum from Castle's entry. Through first door ahead on right is the narrow passage to the castle interior with the armory, chapel, etc..
Poor pic of stairwell to Great Hall.
Castle rooms between Museum and Great Hall. These were very dim, but well done rooms.
Same view as previous, different camera settings.
Great Hall view from Castle-side entrance.
Fireplace to right, small sitting area to left, courtyard straight ahead. Castle behind.
Great hall, tonal organ, into castle is to the left, courtyard behind.
Great hall fireplace
View down great hall towards castle. Courtyard behind photo.
Small sitting area attached to great hall. Taken w/flash to see stonework. Faces toward ocean.
Great Hall courtyard side. All cement with incorporated authentic Medieval stonework. 100' high.
Small passage leading up into Chateau. Courtyard to left, main body of Great Hall to right.
Base of round tower in Chateau.
Castle Ktichen
Medieval dining room. To the right is the courtyard, to the left is the exterior of the building.
One of the Medieval facades Hammond brought in. This photo is taken from the Medieval dining room window into the courtyard. The storefront is of a butcher's shop.
Medieval dining room.
Library in the Chateau's round tower.
Library
Courtyard view of Great Hall entrance and second Medieval storefront. The statue is of Hammond styled as a Greek God.
Medieval facade from courtyard.
Facing to the end of the courtyard away from the Great Hall. As far as I can tell there was very little structure beyond the facade at the back.
Facing the back of the courtyard, behind is Great Hall.
Authentic Medieval facade in courtyard. Real slate roof, has chimney. Also some great carving and brick nogging in the half timber structure.
Entrance to great hall and Medieval facade. Overhead a lighting system was installed by Hammond to add daylight on cloudy days, simulate moonlight at night when there was no moon, and perforated pipes through which water was run to simulate anything from a gentle shower to a downpour.
Facade at back of courtyard, pool.
Great Hall, used as living room. Gershwin played on the piano. Ethel Barrymore was also a guest here.
Medieval window, looks into dining room from courtyard.
Window from dining room into exterior of castle, looking towards belltower/gatehouse.
Bedroom. To the left out window is the courtyard. Small WC on right, to the left is a small closet. Through the closet is a hallway that leads past another WC to a Medieval Bedroom where the favored guests were allowed to stay. The other way into the Medieval bedroom was through the colonnade and hallway accessed by the stairs to the left of the pool facing away from the great hall.
View out of bedroom into courtyard.
Poured concrete Gothic window with some great stained glass. View out to courtyard.
Poured concrete Gothic window and leaded glass. View out the castle away from great hall.
Medieval Bedroom. Floor tiles from Diego Columbus (Christopher Columbus' son). WC on left, hallway (not visible) on right leads to other bedroom.
Colonnade and hallway at end of pool. Looking out of Medieval Bedroom.
Medieval Facade in courtyard. Dining room windows on right. Pool. Great Hall entrance on left.
Great hall. Simple hammer beam roof. Rose window. View facing with courtyard behind, castle ahead.
Third floor of Chateau on right side. Courtyard is to left, castle behind. There are two bedrooms here to the right with what amounts to one twin mattresses each. Also a shared WC. Ahead is another larger bedroom with two twin beds. Servant's quarters? Nice rooms with dormer windows.
Larger of bedrooms (2 twin), window facing castle's front garden.
Small Chateau bedroom, window facing castle's front garden.
Larger Chateau bedroom (2 twins). Small window faces away from castle proper.
Larger Chateau bedroom. Windows facing front garden. Between the windows is the chimney visible in exterior front view.
Entry to colonnade leading to front bedroom.
Medieval facade, view from colonnade.
Great Hall entry, pool and courtyard; view from colonnade. Dining room to right. Library and other rooms to left.
View down colonnade from Medieval bedroom.
Medieval window placed in a lightbox. In one of the "offices".
Chateau room showing some of Hammond's inventions.
Courtyard to left. More living rooms in Chateau.
Chateau rooms ahead and behind, courtyard to right.
B&W picture of Hammond Castle in museum shop.
View offshore through colonnade "ruins" from castle's pedestrian entry.
Coming down pathway from parking. Belltower/gatehouse and castle in center, colonnade ruins on left, Chateau on far right.
View of castle from parking lot. Chateau bedroom dormers visible right of center.
Main castle drawbridge and entry, Chateau on right.
