The Mystery Castle

The Mystery Castle 🚨CLOSED🚨No tours No public ⚠️Private property✋🏼 UPDATES 4m TOUR GUIDES ONLY 🛑 NOT FOUNDATION PAGE Shortly after, the mother and daughter moved in.

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 (died 1945) for his daughter Mary Lou Gulley. After learning he had tuberculosis, Gulley moved from Seattle, Washington, to the Phoenix area and began building the house from found or inexpensive materials. Boyce Gulley died in 1945, and Mary Lou and

her mother were notified by attorney that they had inherited the property. Their story attracted national attention, giving the home some notoriety as well as its exotic name: A Life Magazine story (January 26, 1948) used the headline "Life Visits a Mystery Castle: A Young Girl Rules Over the Strange Secrets of a Fairy Tale Dream House in the Arizona Desert." The photograph featured Mary Lou posing atop the cantilever staircase leading to the roof of the house. That same year, Mary Lou and her mother began offering tours of the home....


The Mystery Castle has been designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride.

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Phoenix, AZ

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Thursday 11am - 3pm
Friday 11am - 3pm
Saturday 11am - 3pm
Sunday 11am - 3pm

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