Herreshoff, in 1926, had gone into business for himself as a yacht designer in Marblehead. Vaughn After Herreshoff's death, Muriel M. Vaughn ( Muriel Elizabeth Miller; 1915–1990) occupied the castle. Muriel had been Herreshoff's secretary. According to her biography by the Mystic Seaport Museum, L. Francis Herreshoff had designated Vaughn as executrix and sole beneficiary of his estate. Vaughn moved into the Castle and continued to operate his yacht design business. She collected his writings into two books, Sensible Cruising Designs (1973) and An L. Francis Herreshoff Reader (1978). Vaughn was the widow of Robert Lincoln Vaughn (1908–1958), who from 1951 to 1953 had been an executive officer at the Central Torpedo Office in Newport, Rhode Island. He was a graduate of Phillips Exeter (1927), Harvard College (1931), and Harvard Business School (1933). He died in 1958 from complications following an appendectomy. The Central Torpedo Office was an outgrowth of the Naval Torpedo Station, founded in 1869 on Goat Island. Muriel Vaughn, in 1936, was one of 6 women in a class of 67 graduates of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. After Muriel died, Elizabeth Vaughn (born 1946), her daughter, inherited the estate, sold the Herreshoff Castle, but carried on some unfinished curation of Herreshoff's work. Rubino Michael Horton Rubino, EdD, JD, and his wife, Christina ( Pranker), acquired the Herreshoff Castle in 1990. Rubino was born in Marblehead. See also Herreshoff family Bibliography Notes References External links Residential buildings completed in the 20th century Castles in Massachusetts Bed and breakfasts in the United States Houses in Marblehead, Massachusetts