Madame Sherri House, NH

Madame Sherri House, NH

Madam Sherri Forest nennt sich das Ganze und dort finden sich die Überreste vom „Castle“ von Madam Sherri. Richtig gut und gespenstisch wäre das Ganze gekommen, wenn die Ruine noch im Nebel versunken wäre, aber so viel Glück hatten wir dann doch nicht.

Die Ruinen von Madame Sherri’s Castle in Chesterfield ziehen seit mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert die Kameras in ihren Bann, um das steinerne Skelett dieses Herrenhauses aus dem frühen 20. Jahrhundert zu sehen und zu fotografieren.

Hier noch eine kurze wissenschaftliche Abhandlung zu Madame Sherri, abgetippt vom Infoschild am Parkplatz

"Madame Antoinette Sherri summered in Chesterfield, NH for thirty years beginning in the late 1920’s. Her lifestyle was unlike anything the local residents of Brattleboro had seen before, and she soon became an exotic and mysterious figure in the region.

Antoinette De Lilas was a music hall singer in Paris when she married Andre Riela aka Antony Maculusco, a silent film actor and theatrical producer. A newspaper article appeared in the New York World at the time reporting Andre Riela as the son of an Italian Diplomat who, along with Andre’s mother and sister , was living in New York City at that time. The article further stated that the newly weds arrived in New York City aboard the SS Oceanic in 1911 and received a chilly reception from the groom’s parents. This appe? to have been an publicity stunt. Shortly thereafter, the couple changed their name to Sherri . Using this newly acquired name, the couple became theatrical costume designers and opened a shop in New York Citie’s theater district.

Antoinette (Madame) Sherri first came to Chesterfield during the prohibition era to visit her friend Jack Henderson, a Broadway actor who summered and partied here. Andre had passed away in 1924. Madame Sherri, in her 50’s by this time, became fond of Chesterfield and bought a farm on the Gulf Road, as a place to build her summer home.
Her entourage of beautiful young girls and handsome young men from New York, her 1927 cream colored Packard touring car and the seemingly endless supply of money fascinated the local residents. Her foreign accent , extravagant dress and the “stone” castle that she had built added to the growing legend.

Madame Sherri past away at the Maple Rest Nursing Home in Brattleboro in October of 1965. Oddly, the sale of the site of the “castle” which had burned some years earlier- and her farmhouse, completed on the day of her death.

It was later learned that some of Madam Sherri’s money actually came to her from Charles LeMaire, the Hollywood film costume designer. The Sherri’s had befriended LeMaire when he first arrived in New York. It was Andre and Antoinette who had taught him costume design. "

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Eva