It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Bowman's Castle, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, built in 1789, the oldest Gothic Revival castle in the United States.It is a Tudor Revival style mansion owned by Boston University. Boston University Castle or BU Castle, Boston, Massachusetts, built from 1904 to 1915.Grounds also include additional castle-like follies. Boldt Castle, Heart Island, Thousand Islands, New York, main house built from 1900 to 1904.Built by one man, Jim Bishop, the building facade is rubble stone, with a 160-foot (49 m) tower and a variety of self-made iron ornaments and bridges. Construction began on this eccentric structure in 1969 and was still in progress in 2010. Bishop Castle, Wet Mountains, Rye, Colorado, vicinity.It is the largest privately held home in the United States. Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina, 175,000-square-foot (16,300 m 2) Châteauesque style mansion built 1889–95 for George Washington Vanderbilt II.Bettendorf Castle, also known as Vianden Castle, Fox River Grove, Illinois, built in 1931–32.Berkeley Castle, Bath, West Virginia, built for Colonel Samuel Taylor Suit in 1885.The stone structure is a hybrid of the Gothic and Romanesque styles. It was designed by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, after they were reappointed to oversee the park's construction in 1865. Belvedere Castle, Vista Rock, Central Park, New York City, built as a folly in 1869.Belcourt Castle, Newport, Rhode Island, a Châteauesque mansion built 1891–94 for Oliver Belmont.It is an eclectic Gothic Revival style house with a rusticated stone facade. Beardslee Castle, Little Falls, New York, built in 1860.It featured a combination of the Châteauesque and a unique Gothic style. Beacon Towers, Sands Point, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island, built 1917–18 for Alva Vanderbilt Belmont.The empty and partially collapsed shell remains as a picturesque ruin. An explosion in 1920 destroyed a portion of the complex. The structure was built as a military surplus warehouse in the style of a Romanesque castle by businessman Francis Bannerman. Bannerman's Castle, also known as Bannerman's Island Arsenal, Hudson River, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, built 1901–18.Bancroft Tower, Worcester, Massachusetts, a small-scale feudal castle built in 1900 in memory of George Bancroft.Built in 1665, Bacon's Castle, originally known as the Arthur Allen Brick House, is British North America's oldest brick structure, North America's only surviving example of Jacobean architecture, and has North America's oldest, preserved 17th-century English formal garden. Bacon's Castle, Surry County, Virginia.Armory of the First Corps of Cadets, or Park Plaza Castle, Boston, Massachusetts, built 1897.American Museum of Natural History in New York City, façade on West 77th Street, built 1874-c.1920s.Alexander Brown House in Syracuse, NY, built 1895, is still in use and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Since 1977, several million dollars have been applied to rehabilitating, restoring and improving the Heart Island structures.Winnekenni Castle in Haverhill, Massachusetts A to C When the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority acquired the property in 1977, it was decided that through the use of all net revenues from the castle operation it would be preserved for the enjoyment of future generations. Boldt never returned to the island, leaving behind the structure as a monument of his love.įor 73 years, the castle and various stone structures were left to the mercy of the wind, rain, ice, snow and vandals. A broken hearted Boldt could not imagine his dream castle without his beloved. Boldt telegraphed the island and commanded the workers to immediately “stop all construction.” Louise had died suddenly. Not a single detail or expense was spared. Boldt’s Wellesley Island Farms while 300 workers including stonemasons, carpenters, and artists fashioned the six story, 120 room castle, complete with tunnels, a powerhouse, Italian gardens, a drawbridge, alster tower (children’s playhouse) and a dove cote. The grandiose structure was to be a display of his love for his wife, Louise.īeginning in 1900, the Boldt family spent summers in the 1000 Islands at the Boldt Family’s Wellesley House near Mr. Boldt, millionaire proprietor of the world famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, set out to build a full size rhineland castle in Alexandria Bay, on picturesque Heart Island.
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