The Movie Star in our Backyard: Thornewood Castle
An old-world mansion hidden away in Tacoma beckons modern visitors, including film crews.
By Rachel Pritchett
[Bremerton] Sun Staff
December 14, 2002
History meets fiction at Lakewood's breathtaking Thornewood Castle Inn & Gardens, a 56-room Tudor Gothic manor on American Lake, an hour south of Bremerton.
The nation's great architects and landscapers devoted their genius to making Thornewood. Presidents -- Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft -- once kicked up their feet at this home built by one of the Northwest's pioneering financiers nearly a century ago.
The entryway to Thornewood castle is altered as a film crew prepares to shoot a scene for a new Stephen King film, a prequel to the television movie Rose Red, which was filmed on the estate.