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Boldt Castle is a major landmark and tourist attraction in the Thousand Islands region of the U.S. state of New York. Open to guests seasonally between mid-May and mid-October, it is located on Heart Island in the Saint Lawrence River .
It was commissioned by George Boldt to house the many watercraft he owned and is adjacent to Boldt Castle. [2] The yacht house was designed by the Philadelphia architects G. W. & W. D. Hewitt and built in 1903. It is a massive, eclectic, Shingle-style structure composed of five elements, which are: a circular tower containing reception rooms,
Panoramic view of Heart Island and Boldt Castle in the Thousand Islands of Upstate New York. Heart Island is an island in the Town of Alexandria, Jefferson County, New York, within the Saint Lawrence River, along the Canada–United States border. The island is one of the most prominent within the Thousand Islands archipelago of the two countries.
Boldt Castle is a 120-room mansion on Heart Island, located near Alexandria Bay. The castle was designed by the firm of W. D. Hewitt and G.W. Hewitt, Architects of Philadelphia, who also designed Druim Moir Castle in Philadelphia.
This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes.
The Thousand Islands archipelago is at the outlet of Lake Ontario at the head of the Saint Lawrence River.The region is bisected by the Canada–United States border and covers portions of Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties in the U.S. state of New York, in addition to parts of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville and Frontenac County in the Canadian province of Ontario.
The firm specialized in churches, hotels and palatial residences, especially crenelated mansions, such as Maybrook (1881), Druim Moir (1885–86) and Boldt Castle (1900–04). The last, which was built for George C. Boldt , owner of Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel at 220 South Broad Street in Center City Philadelphia (1902–04), is G.W ...
He was born as Georg Karl Boldt in Bergen auf Rügen, Pommern, on April 25, 1851. [2] [a] He immigrated to the United States in 1864. [1]He began as a kitchen worker in New York and, at age 25, was hired (by his future father-in-law) to manage the dining room of Philadelphia's most exclusive gentlemen's club, The Philadelphia Club.