List of castles in the United States
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This is a list of castles in the United States. Note that most cannot properly be described as true castles. They are primarily country houses or follies, built in the style of medieval castles.
- Bancroft Tower, a miniature feudal castle built in 1900 in memory of George Bancroft in Worcester, Massachusetts.
- Bannerman's Castle, an early 20th century arsenal and warehouse on Pollepel Island in the Hudson River, New York.
- Beardslee Castle, Little Falls, New York, a replica of an Irish castle built in 1860
- Belcourt Castle, Newport, Rhode Island, a château built in the 1890s for Oliver Belmont.
- Belvedere Castle, New York, a folly in Central Park, built in 1869.
- Biltmore Estate, North Carolina, a late 19th century Châteauesque house, and the largest home in America.
- Bishop Castle, Colorado, a 20th century castle built by one man.
- Boldt Castle, Heart Island, Thousand Islands, an early 20th century house, with associated follies.
- Boston University Castle or BU Castle, Boston, Massachusetts, a Tudor Revival-style mansion owned by Boston University
- Bowman's Castle, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, the oldest castle in the United States.
- Bull Run Castle, Aldie, Virginia.
- Campbell Castle, Wichita, Kansas, built in 1888, modeled after a feudal Scottish castle
- Carey Mansion, Rhode Island, a Châteauesque house.
- Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine, Florida, a Spanish fort. Construction began in 1672 and finished in 1695.
- Castello di Amorosa, Calistoga, California, a working winery.
- The Castle at Castle Park, near Holland, Michigan, built in 1890s, German-style, built as a private house, now a community center
- The Castle at Casa Basso, Westhampton, New York, currently a restaurant and park.
- Castle Craig, a 32 feet (9.8 m) high tower in Meriden, Connecticut.
- Castle Gatehouse, a pumping station to serve the Washington Aqueduct in Washington, D.C.
- Castle Gwynn, Arrington-Triune, TN, a house built in the style of a Welsh border castle. Construction began in 1980 and is ongoing. Castle Gwynn was featured in Taylor Swift's music video "Love Story".
- Castle in Hawaii, Pahoa, HI, a vacation rental built to look like a medieval castle complete with working drawbridge, moat (swimming pool) & dungeon. A man's home is his castle, built in 2002 by John Williams and located on the Big Island of Hawaii, Hilo Side, Puna, near Kilauea Volcano. Castle Website
- Castle Museum (Saginaw)
- Castle Post (Lexington Kentucky) [1]
- Castle Rock (Garrison, New York), Garrison, New York, castle-like main house built in 1881
- Castle San Miguel, in Hanceville, Alabama.
- Castlepoint Ministries, in Lucerne, California built after a castle in Lucerne Switzerland is the biggest building in the city of Lucerne the camp ministry is now closed. http://www.castlepoint.org/
- Cherokee Castle, formerly Charlford Castle, built from 1924-1926 near Sedalia, Colorado, by Charles Alfred Johnson,was sold to Mildred Montigue Genevieve Kimball, in 1954 and renamed. In 1996, Tweet Kimball sold Cherokee Ranch and Castle in a conservation easement to Douglas County. Prior to her death Mrs. Kimball created the Cherokee Ranch & Castle Foundation.
- Cinderella Castle, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, located in Walt Disney World.
- Copenhaver Castle, Phoenix, Arizona, Built on Camelback Mountain by an Orthodontist named Dr. Mort Copenhaver during the 1970's.
- Coral Castle, Florida, a 20th century megalithic structure
- Coronado Heights, a hilltop tourist attraction in central Kansas
- Curwood Castle, Owosso, Michigan, an early 20th century replica of a French chateau.
- Dark Island Castle, Thousand Islands, a late 19th century house, based on descriptions in Sir Walter Scott's novels.
- Draiman Gothic Castle, Northridge, California, Built in 1993 by Mr Brownstein, A full feature Gothic Castle, with turrets, gargoyles and Dragons.
- Druim Moir Castle, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, a late 19th century castle home, built for Pennsylvania railroad tycoon Henry H. Houston
- Dunham Castle, a Norman-style castle home, built for Mark Wentworth Dunham in Wayne, Illinois. Dunham is known as the “Father of the Percheron Horse in North America”
- Edward Everett Estate, currently houses Southern Vermont College in Bennington, Vermont.
- Excalibur, in Fort Payne, Alabama, the home of Jeff Cook of the band Alabama.
- Fair Lane, in Dearborn, Michigan, the estate of Henry Ford.
- Franklin Castle, Cleveland, Ohio, built in the late 19th century by a wealthy German immigrant
- Gillette Castle, Connecticut, an early 20th century mock-mediaeval house.
- Glamorgan Castle, Alliance, Ohio
- Glen Eyrie is a 67-room English Tudor-style castle built in 1871 by General William Jackson Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs. This house is near Colorado Springs in the northwest foothills north of the Garden of the Gods rock formations (now a city park)on the 800-acre (3.2 km2) estate.
- Grey Towers Castle, a building of Arcadia University, Pennsylvania.
- Hammond Castle, located on the coast of Massachusetts near Glouchester.
- Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California, a 20th century mansion.
- Hearthstone Castle, a three-story, sixteen-room stone castle in Danbury, Connecticut.
- Hempstead House, or Castle Gould, Sands Point, New York, a castle-like estate built in 1912 for Howard Gould
- Henderson Castle, Kalamazoo, Michigan, a late 19th century house in the Queen Anne Style.
- Herreshoff Castle, Marblehead, Massachusetts, a mock-mediaeval 20th century house.
- The H.I.L.L Castle, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a 21st Century Mansion with 400 rooms.
- Hoquiam's Castle, Bed and Breakfast, Hoquiam, Washington.
- Hippol Castle (also known as Gimghoul Castle), a small structure in Chapel Hill, North Carolina that was built for a collegiate secret society called the Order of Gimghoul.
- Lambert Castle, Paterson, New Jersey
- Chateau Laroche, or Loveland Castle, Loveland, Ohio, a 20th century folly.
- Manresa Castle, Hotel in Port Townsend, Washington.
- Marble House, Newport, Rhode Island, now a museum, built in 1892 and inspired by the Petit Trianon
- Martin Castle, A castle outside Lexington, Kentucky near the Woodford County line. Also wnown as Post Castle or Versailles Castle
- Meadow Brook Hall, Rochester Hills, Michigan, mansion of Matilda Dodge Wilson.
- Melrose Castle, Casanova, Virginia 11,000 square foot castle on 50 acres. Built around 1850. Private residence.
- Nichols Hall, a 20th century building of Kansas State University, built to look like a castle.
- Ochre Court, Newport, Rhode Island, a large châteauesque mansion built in 1892
- Oheka Castle, Long Island, New York, a 20th century country house.
- Olana State Historic Site, 1872 Persian/Victorian mansion
- Old Louisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, built in a Gothic Revival style in the mid-19th century.
- Old Main, a late 19th century Gothic Revival building of Eastern Illinois University.
- The Piatt Castles, West Liberty, Ohio. late-19th century manors built by brothers Abram Sanders and Donn Piatt.
- Reid Castle, Purchase, New York. Also known as Reid Hall, Manhattanville College.
- Richthofen Castle, Denver, Colorado. Baron Walter von Richthofen's 1887 rhyolite castle.
- Rubel Pharms, Glendora, California. Also known as Rubel Castle, home of Michael Clarke Rubel.
- Samuel Taylor Suit Cottage, also known as Berkeley Castle, Bath, West Virginia, a castle-like house built for Colonel Samuel Taylor Suit in 1885
- San Francisco National Guard Armory, locally simply "The Armory," a 1912-14 reproduction of a Moorish castle in the Mission District of San Francisco.
- Scotty's Castle, in Death Valley CA, it is a popular tourist destination.
- Searles Castle (Massachusetts), Great Barrington, Massachusetts, castle-style house built in the 1880s
- Searles Castle (New Hampshire), Windham, New Hampshire, a 20th century replica of an English Tudor mansion.
- Seely - Overlook Castle (North Carolina), Asheville, North Carolina, a perfect replica of an English castle.
- Shea's Castle, Antelope Valley, California, an early 20th century stone castle.
- Sky High Castle, Cliff Village, Missouri, near Joplin.
- Sleeping Beauty Castle, Anaheim, California, located in Disneyland.
- Stan Hywet, Akron, Ohio. Stan Hywet, Old English for Stone Quarry was the home of F.A. Seiberling, founder of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.
- Stronghold Center, Oregon, Illinois. Castle home built between 1928 and 1930 for Chicago newspaper publisher Walter Strong in the Tudor Style architecture.
- Smithsonian Castle, Located in the National Mall of Washington D.C. and houses the Smithsonian’s administrative offices.
- Squire's Castle, metropolitan Cleveland, Ohio.
- Thornewood Castle, Bed and Breakfast in Lakewood, Washington.
- Vikingsholm, was a private home, now tours are available. Lake Tahoe, California, at the top of Emerald Bay.[2]
- Ward's Castle, Port Chester, New York. Built in the 1870s, first reinforced concrete building in US.
- Westbury House, Old Westbury, New York, a Charles II-style mansion built in 1906
- Wettershaw Manor (Castle), Shaw/Columbia, Missouri. Built 1819 and is over 11,000 sq ft (1,000 m2).
- Wilson Castle, Proctor, Vermont, a late 19th century brick and marble estate.
- Winnekenni Castle, Haverhill, Massachusetts. Built in the mid 1870s in order to demonstrate the value of local stone as building material.
Joslyn Castle: Omaha, NE, built in 1903.
[edit] See also
- List of castles
- Mercer Museum, and Font Hill: Yardley PA, Pitcarin Mansion: Bryn Athyn, PA
- List of tourist attractions worldwide
