Wildwind
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Pine Valley, Pennsylvania
Pine Valley, Pennsylvania is the fictional setting for the long-running American soap opera All My Children. It is a small suburb of Philadelphia...
. Originally owned by the Maricks, a family of Hungarian nobility, the mansion has been home to a great many Pine Valley residents over the years.
Architecture and Design
From 1991 to 2010, Wildwind has been portrayed as a castleCastle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...
-like Gothic
Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
estate. The walls were made of stone, nearly all the windows had diamond-shaped panes with the Marick family crest on them, and the front doors, which were made of elaborately crafted oak, had large brass knockers. In early-to-mid 2010, Wildwind was remodeled and modernized.
Features
The main mansion included areas such as the parlor, a turretTurret
In architecture, a turret is a small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a medieval castle. Turrets were used to provide a projecting defensive position allowing covering fire to the adjacent wall in the days of military fortification...
which was once occupied by Gillian Andrassy, a ballroom
Ballroom
A ballroom is a large room inside a building, the designated purpose of which is holding formal dances called balls. Traditionally, most balls were held in private residences; many mansions contain one or more ballrooms...
, and private chapel
Chapel
A chapel is a building used by Christians as a place of fellowship and worship. It may be part of a larger structure or complex, such as a church, college, hospital, palace, prison or funeral home, located on board a military or commercial ship, or it may be an entirely free-standing building,...
. Other locations on the property include the hunting lodge which served as the refuge for Dimitri Marick
Dimitri Marick
Dimitri Marick is a fictional character from the ABC daytime drama All My Children, a long running soap opera set in the fictional city Pine Valley, Pennsylvania. Former Dynasty star Michael Nader originated the character. Anthony Addabbo took over the role on April 6, 2001, and played Dimitri...
and Erica Kane
Erica Kane
Erica Kane is a fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children.The character has been portrayed by actress Susan Lucci since the show first aired in January 1970, until the last broadcast television episode aired in September 2011. Erica is considered to be the most popular...
, the stables, and a well
Water well
A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, boring or drilling to access groundwater in underground aquifers. The well water is drawn by an electric submersible pump, a trash pump, a vertical turbine pump, a handpump or a mechanical pump...
that once served as a prison to Natalie Marlowe
Natalie Marlowe
Natalie Dillon is a fictional character from the daytime soap opera All My Children...
.
The Marick/Grey/Santos Family
Wildwind was originally owned and occupied by Hugo Marick, his wife Anna, and their son, DimitriDimitri Marick
Dimitri Marick is a fictional character from the ABC daytime drama All My Children, a long running soap opera set in the fictional city Pine Valley, Pennsylvania. Former Dynasty star Michael Nader originated the character. Anthony Addabbo took over the role on April 6, 2001, and played Dimitri...
. They were related to the royal Andrassy family of Hungary. A number of servants lived on the Wildwind property, including the Greshams and the Voynitzevas.
In 1991, Dimitri rescued Natalie Marlowe from the well on the Wildwind property and nursed her back to health. Natalie had been imprisoned there by her crazed sister Janet. The two fell in love and got engaged. However, it turned out that Dimitri was still married to Angelique Voynitzeva, the daughter of his housekeeper Helga. Angelique had been in a coma
Coma
In medicine, a coma is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than 6 hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light or sound, lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. A person in a state of coma is described as...
for 15 years following a riding accident, and Helga had kept her hidden in a secret room in the mansion, unbeknownst to Dimitri. Angelique emerged from her coma on the night of Dimitri and Natalie's engagement party
Engagement party
An engagement party is a party thrown to celebrate a couple's recent engagement and to help future wedding guests to get to know one another. Traditionally, the bride's parents host the engagement party, but many modern couples host their own celebration....
and Helga revealed her to the couple and their guests. Natalie ended her relationship with Dimitri and reunited with her former lover Trevor.
Shortly thereafter Edmund Grey
Edmund Grey
Edmund Grey is a fictional character on the ABC daytime drama All My Children. John Callahan portrayed Edmund from April 1992 to March 2005.-Character history :...
arrived in town. Edmund was the son of Alf and Flora Gresham, servants for the Maricks. Edmund and Dimitri were childhood friends, but because Dimitri was rich and Edmund was poor, Edmund grew up in Dimitri's shadow. However, upon his return to Pine Valley, Edmund learned that he was actually a Marick himself (the product of an affair between his mother and Hugo Marick) and that he and Dimitri were half-brothers. In addition, Edmund was also an heir to the Wildwind estate. Upon this discovery, Edmund moved into Wildwind where he and his wife, Maria Santos
Maria Santos
Maria Carlos Martins dos Santos is a retired female backstroke and medley swimmer from Portugal, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.-References:*...
would raise a family. Later on, Wildwind was opened to Maria's extended family as well.
Dimitri, meanwhile, married Erica Kane in 1994. They spent a lot of their time at the Wildwind Hunting Lodge. They divorced in 1995 but married again in 1996. They divorced for a final time in 1999.
In 1997 Princess Gillian Andrassy arrived in Pine Valley. She had been sent to live with her cousin Dimitri at Wildwind after disgracing her family by having an affair with a married foreign ambassador. Dimitri let her stay in the turret. Gillian eventually married Ryan Lavery
Ryan Lavery
Ryan Aloysius Lavery is a fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children, as portrayed by Cameron Mathison from January 12, 1998 to 2002 and from 2003 to 2011. The character is set to come back in January 2012 when the series returns online...
, but their happiness was short-lived as Gillian was tragically shot and killed just a few months after their wedding.
Following Gillian's death, Dimitri and his wife Alex left Pine Valley for Hungary to help Gillian's family come to terms with her death. They would later settle down at Vadzel, the Maricks' ancestral castle in Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
.
In 2002 Maria Santos Grey returned to Pine Valley. She had previously been believed to have died in a plane crash about 5 years before. Unfortunately she had no memory of her former life in Pine Valley, including her husband Edmund and their children, Sam and Maddie. It took some time but eventually she re-gained her memories and moved back into Wildwind with Edmund. Unfortunately Edmund was murdered about 2 years later. Maria and Maddie left Pine Valley, Sam followed a few months later.
Julia Santos
In 2005 Julia SantosJulia Santos
Julia Keefer is a fictional character from the ABC daytime drama All My Children. She was portrayed by actress Sydney Penny from 1993 to 1996 as a series regular, with guest appearances in 1997 and 2002, and from 2005 to 2008...
returned to Pine Valley after several years in the witness protection program. She moved into Wildwind, which was left empty upon the departure of Maria and her children. Julia rented out the rooms to her friends, just as her brother in law Edmund had done for her family years before.
Julia became the foster mother for a little girl named Kathy Mershon, the adopted daughter of a couple Julia had met during her time in the witness protection program. Julia had made plans to go to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
with Kathy, but tragedy struck when Julia was murdered. Initially, Kathy was to go live with Julia's sister Maria in California, but after it was revealed that Kathy was actually Kate Martin, the long lost daughter of Tad and Dixie, she was sent to live with her biological father.
David Hayward
Wildwind remained empty for several months following Julia's death. In October 2008 David HaywardDavid Hayward
Dr. David Hayward is a fictional character from the ABC daytime drama All My Children, as portrayed by Vincent Irizarry from: November 27, 1997 - March 2, 1998, July 8, 1998 - November 28, 2006, October 23, 2008 - September 13, 2010, and returned on November 22, 2010.The character has been a top...
returned to Pine Valley and moved into Wildwind (still owned by the Greys at the time). During this time Wildwind would be associated with David and his evil ways.
Bianca Montgomery
When David Hayward was thought to be dead in 2010 Bianca MontgomeryBianca Montgomery
Bianca Christine Montgomery is a fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children. In June 2010, Christina Bennett Lind replaced Eden Riegel, who portrayed the role from July 2000 to January 2010. Until Riegel assumed the role, the character was portrayed solely by child...
moved in with Miranda
Miranda Montgomery
Miranda Mona Montgomery is a fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children. She is currently portrayed by Mackenzie Aladjem...
and Gabrielle Montgomery. She was also so generous and let Caleb Cortlandt move in.