Quigley's Castle

Quigley's Castle is a residential house in Carroll County featuring 28 large windows and exterior walls covered with thousands of stones, fossils, crystals, and arrowheads. The interior has a distinctive four-foot-wide perimeter bed filled with soil where tropical plants grow alongside family heirlooms and natural collections.

The residence was designed and built in 1943 by Elise Quigley and her husband Albert using lumber from their 80-acre property during wartime material shortages. This resourceful approach to construction shaped the house's distinctive character from its inception.

The house reflects how a couple combined their passion for collecting with daily living. The rooms show the merging of family life with a deep interest in natural objects and gardening.

The house sits on Quigley Castle Road near Eureka Springs and welcomes visitors from March through November. Guided tours take visitors through the rooms and gardens to see the collections and design throughout.

The property holds more than 400 varieties of perennial plants, handmade stone sculptures, heirloom roses, and fourteen bottle trees built from Albert's glass collection. This botanical and craft diversity developed over decades of collecting and planting.

Location: Carroll County

GPS coordinates: 36.34610,-93.75580

Latest update: December 11, 2025 11:02