Old photograph of Ayton Castle in the in the former county of Berwickshire in the Borders, Scotland. The original castle, a peel tower, had once been a stronghold of the Home family. This castle was captured by the English in 1497, and the nearby church was the scene of the subsequent negotiation of the treaty of Ayton, signed on 30 September 1497. The tower was replaced by a classical mansion, which burnt down in 1834. In 1851 William Mitchell-Innes commissioned James Gillespie Graham to build a this castle at Ayton in the Scottish Baronial style in red sandstone. Mark Twain visited the castle in 1873 and insisted upon buying the Dining Room fireplace mantel; it is now in the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, America, having been repaired and moved there after a fire that destroyed Twain's Stormfield villa where it had been installed.
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