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Where is ‘Fixer Upper: The Castle’ filmed? Get the backstory of Chip and Joanna Gaines’s new Discovery Plus show — and their greatest fixer-upper but.

A castle in the middle of Texas? Yep, imagine it or now not, the position where Fixer Upper: The Castle is filmed is the identical place where Chip and Joanna Gaines filmed their unique Fixer Upper series: Waco, Texas.

A synopsis of the new show, which premieres on Discovery Plus and Magnolia Network on Friday, Oct. 14, touts that the castle is Chip and Joanna’s “largest fixer-upper yet.”

“As they breathe new existence into the historical landmark, they should additionally take on its challenging infrastructure while conserving its original good looks,” the synopsis adds.

A century-old property in Waco, Texas, is where ‘Fixer Upper: The Castle’ is filmed.

As Joanna explained in the Winter 2019 issue of Magnolia Journal, the property — known as the Cottonland Castle and located near downtown Waco — has lengthy been a dream project for Chip, her husband.

“Completed in 1913, it looks like, as soon as upon a time, somebody in Europe packed up a fairy-tale citadel and shipped it off to start a brand new life in the American West,” she wrote in her Journal word. “It’s the kind of position that activates folks passing via to forestall and stare, exchanging thoughts about all the tales it might tell.”

The 'Fixer-Upper' fortress has 3 flooring and six,700 square ft.

According to the Waco Tribune-Herald, the fort stands at 3300 Austin Ave. in Waco and was listed at $425,000 ahead of Chip and Joanna bought it in 2019, though the value they paid for it has no longer been disclosed. It’s a three-story structure with 6,seven hundred square feet, the newspaper adds.

A Civil War veteran named Alfred Abeel was the one that built the fort, in step with Waco History. The house was “modeled after a small German fortress along the Rhine River,” the website online adds. Its exterior was clad in white sandstone and limestone, whilst the inside was decked out Caen stone from France, Carrara marble from Italy, and Honduran mahogany paneling.

Chip and Joanna bought the fort in 2019 after ready for nearly twenty years.

The fortress “discovered its method into [Chip’s] center,” Joanna wrote in her Magnolia Journal be aware — regardless that, as she admitted, all she saw was “a surprisingly daunting project.”

But it took years — and a couple of possession adjustments — for Chip’s dream to come true. “For nearly 20 years, Chip watched and waited, consistently putting in gives every time the castle was relisted — each and every one passed over for someone else, whilst very few improvements seemed to be made,” Joanna published.

Finally, in 2019, Chip and Joanna controlled to buy Cottonland Castle. “No doubt about it, this can be a fixer-upper in contrast to some other we’ve ever tackled,” Joanna wrote. “Even even though we haven’t the slightest idea of what it'll transform, what Chip did know all along, deep in his bones, and what I have discovered to peer too, is that this: If you look past the cracks in the masonry, previous the rotted floorboards, past the barren region taking over the yard, there's a lot of attractiveness to be discovered on this previous castle.”

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