Where Is The Fixer Upper Castle Located and Who Are Its Host Chip and Joanna Gaines?

The Fixer Upper actors restored a nineteenth-century castle (dubbed Cottonland Castle) which is located in Waco, Texas, and fans can tour it until October 29, 2022.

Furthermore, "Fixer Upper: Welcome Home - The Castle," their latest episode, follows the total renovation of this Central Texas icon. Similarly, Chip and Joanna Gaines are taking on their most ambitious project yet: restoring an over 100-year-old historic castle in Waco, Texas.

Likewise, Fixer Upper: Welcome Home, The Castle will premiere on the Magnolia Network on Friday, October 14th, with six half-hour episodes showing the couple's dramatic transformation of a once-abandoned Central Texas mansion.

Additionally, Cotton and Castle, as it is known among Waco residents, was built in 1913. Joanna writes in The Magnolia Journal, "Chip and I have a long history of taking on unexpected projects," recalling the first time she and her husband passed past the decaying structure in their hometown.

Chip and Joanna Gaines, the presenters of HGTV's Fixer Upper, have been flipping, remodeling, and patching up houses as the owners of Magnolia Homes in Waco, Texas, for the past 12 years. 

They have collaborated on over 100 houses, combining Chip's keen sense of real estate and Joanna's distinct eye for design.

Chip and Joanna are enthusiastic about guiding their clients through every step of the building and design process and assisting them in making their ideas a reality.

The Gaines have been in Waco for almost a decade. They like collaborating with the same aim in mind: to beautify Waco and other Texas neighborhoods one project at a time.

The Cottonland Castle property was bought by the Magnolia co-founders in 2019. Chip had his eye on the property for a long time before they eventually acquired it, Joanna said in the 2019 winter edition of Magnolia Journal.

Joanna admitted at the time that the project was "unlike any other, we'd ever handled." The author of The Stories We Tell wrote that while they had "no idea what" it would become, "what Chip did know all along, deep in his bones, and what I have learned to see too, is this: If you look past the cracks in the masonry, past the rotted floorboards, past the wilderness taking over the backyard, there is a lot of beauty to be found in this old castle."

If you can't get to Waco to view Chip and Joanna's home in person, you can still watch the old castle's refurbishment this autumn. The Fixer Upper: The Castle premieres on Magnolia Network, HBO Max, and Discovery+ on Friday, October 14 at 9 p.m. ET.

According to a Magnolia spokesman, the Fixer Upper Castle will eventually be offered for purchase. According to the website, tour guests will be able to view the home set just as it will appear on the program this autumn.

The three-story, 6,700-square-foot castle at 3300 Austin Ave. became known as the Cottonland Castle in Waco. Construction began in 1890 and was finished in 1913, according to the Waco Tribune-Herald.

According to wacohistory.org, "the final mansion, fashioned after a German castle on the Rhine River," "featured a tower, servants' quarters, eight fireplaces, and interior embellishments such as Italian Carrara marble, Honduran mahogany paneling, and Caen stone from France."

The Gaineses purchased the home in 2019. The sum they paid was not disclosed, according to the Trib, "although the home was listed at $425,000 and had a tax evaluation of $350,700 at the time." For tax purposes, it is now valued at $1,127,470."