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Château Laroche, also known as the Loveland Castle, is a museum on the banks of the Little Miami River north of Loveland, Ohio, United States.Built in the style of a Medieval castle, construction began in the 1927 by Boy Scout troop leader, World War I veteran, and medievalist Harry D. Andrews. [1]
Camelback Castle/Copenhaver Castle. The construction of the castle began in 1967 and was finished in 1977. The castle is located at 5050 E. Red Rock Dr. in Phoenix, Arizona. The architectural style of the castle is that of medieval Moorish. The castle has a dungeon, a drawbridge and a moat as well. [12]
Farmer's Castle marker at Belpre, Ohio. Farmer's Castle was a defensive fortification built opposite the mouth of the Little Kanawha River on the Ohio River by a group of pioneers from the Ohio Company of Associates. It was located about 15 miles downriver of Marietta, Ohio, the first European-American settlement in the Northwest Territory. The ...
Franklin Castle (also known as the Tiedemann House) is a Victorian stone house, built in the American Queen Anne style, located at 4308 Franklin Boulevard in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood. [2] The building has four stories and more than twenty rooms and eighty windows.
The Piatt Castles are two historic houses near West Liberty in Logan County, Ohio. The houses were built by brothers Donn and Abram S. Piatt in the 1860s and 1870s, designed in a Gothic style. The houses are located 1 mi (1.6 km) and 1.75 mi (2.82 km) east of West Liberty. In 1982, the castles were listed on the National Register of Historic ...
1901 built 1970 NRHP-listed 1981 restored 315 Main St. Fort Worth, Texas: Medieval architecture, built on site of 1881 building, the first-built Pythian Castle [1] also known as Pythian Castle Hall: 22: Pythian Home 1909 built [8]
A diagram of a Motte and Bailey Castle. Surviving examples of medieval secular architecture mainly served for defense, these include forts, castles, tower houses, and fortified walls. Fortifications were built during the Middle Ages to display the power of the lords of the land and reassure common folk in their protection of property and ...
Most Spanish castles were built from stone, whereas castles in Eastern Europe were usually of timber construction. [154] On the Construction of the Castle of Safed, written in the early 1260s, describes the construction of a new castle at Safed. It is "one of the fullest" medieval accounts of a castle's construction. [155]