{"id":83667,"date":"2018-07-13T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=83667"},"modified":"2018-07-13T13:27:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T20:27:36","slug":"wayne-newtons-casa-de-shenandoah-ends-public-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wayne-newtons-casa-de-shenandoah-ends-public-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Newton’s Casa de Shenandoah Ends Public Tours, Kitschy Las Vegas Attraction Returning to Private Status"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casa de Shenandoah — the over-the-top 52-acre estate of Las Vegas entertainment icon Wayne Newton and his wife Kathleen — is shutting down just three years after it opened as a tourist attraction. Newton\u2019s attorney said this week that the decision has been made to return the estate to a private residence, according to the\u00a0Las Vegas Review-Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Wayne and Kathleen Newton — seen here in front of the main house on the Casa de Shenandoah estate in Las Vegas — may soon be moving back in to the tourist attraction, which included a host of the entertainer’s Rolls Royces on display. (Image: Getty\/LVR-J\/Casino.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Casa de Shenandoah has been closed since May for “extensive maintenance, repairs, and renovation,” according to the attraction’s own website. Although an Instagram message previously promised that the property would be “closed for daily tours for a short period of time in order to take care of maintenance and upgrades to the property,\u201d that\u00a0reopening never came. The official closure took effect on Tuesday, July 10, according to the R-J.<\/em><\/p>\n

Return to Eden<\/h2>\n

When Newton turned the estate into a public museum in 2015<\/a>, Sin City tourists and locals alike were given access to the property Newton settled on in the 1960s, during his heyday as one of Las Vegas’ most notable performers. With it came his love of animals of all kinds: Casa de Shenandoah has housed stables of Arabian horses, a bevy of peacocks who still roam the grounds, and other exotic animals.<\/p>\n

Newton\u2019s passion for collections extended to his Rolls Royces and half of a private jet he once used that he converted into a museum, and it was all part of the Casa tour.<\/p>\n

The 76-year old performer is still a mainstay on the Las Vegas Strip, where he performs regularly at Bally\u2019s Hotel & Casino.<\/p>\n

“Mr. Las Vegas” is still going strong after 60 years, but the city itself has changed dramatically since Casa de Shenandoah was first built. The retreat was created before Las Vegas\u2019 booming expansion, and it’s now surrounded by fast food restaurants and convenience stores, not to mention being situated directly under the McCarran International Airport incoming flight path.<\/p>\n

Burglaries May Be Driving Force<\/h2>\n

Newton provided no reason for closing his estate to the public after two years. According to the R-J<\/em>, he just said \u201cwe are just taking a breather and deciding what we want to do in the future.” Back in 2015, he laid out the possibilities for a future return, however.<\/p>\n

The entire property is ours. We\u2019ve leased it for more years than I\u2019ll ever see, and with the right and premeditated figure, which I can\u2019t go into, should we decide that we wanted to buy it back, that\u2019s the figure and it\u2019s a done deal,\u201d Newton said upon converting the estate to a public museum.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Newtons haven\u2019t lived at Casa since 2013. Their current residence — just a mile down the road — was burglarized in June<\/a>. \u00a0Though surveillance footage captured the suspects, no arrests have yet been made in the case.<\/p>\n

In response to the burglaries, the couple announced increased security at the current residence, including 24-hour armed guards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Casa de Shenandoah — the over-the-top 52-acre estate of Las Vegas entertainment icon Wayne Newton and his wife Kathleen — is shutting down just three years after it opened as a tourist attraction. Newton\u2019s attorney said this week that the decision has been made to return the estate to a private residence, according to the\u00a0Las […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":83719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3313,11],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWayne Newton's Casa de Shenandoah Ends Public Tours<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wayne Newton's Casa de Shenandoah is closing to the public two years after the iconic Las Vegas performer turned his longtime estate into a public museum.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wayne-newtons-casa-de-shenandoah-ends-public-tours\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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