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The state purchased the castle and grounds in 1978, adapting them for use as a state park and opening them to the public. The water tower was repaired in 2004, with a new roof installed. Although the castle walls were stabilized in the 1980s, a new survey in 2016 determined that portions of the ruins including its arches were seeing mortar and ...
City workhouse castle (Vine Street workhouse castle, Brant Castle [3]) is a city historical register site located at 2001 Vine Street in Kansas City, Missouri.The castle was constructed by contractors in 1897 for US$25,700 (equivalent to $941,000 in 2023) next to the natural deposit of yellow limestone which had been quarried by inmates of the preceding city workhouse jail across Vine Street.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
7 Abandoned Castles, Chateaux & Mansions Worth A Visit (PHOTOS) AOL Travel Staff. Updated September 22, 2016 at 2:13 PM. awscyh/Flickr.
Pensmore is a 72,000 square feet (6,700 m 2) home in the Ozark Mountains near Highlandville, Missouri.One of the largest homes in the United States, it has five stories, contains 14 baths, 13 bedrooms; has exterior walls 12 inches thick, and was designed to survive earthquakes, tornadoes, and bomb blasts.
It is a stone castle-like house with a crenellated roof-line. [62] Singer Castle, formerly Jorstadt Castle, Thousand Islands, New York, built in 1896. Designed by Ernest Flagg for Frederick Gilbert Bourne of the Singer Manufacturing Company. [63] Sky High Castle, Redings Mill, Missouri, built 1927–30. Situated upon a 180-foot-tall (55 m) hill ...
Samuel H. and Isabel Smith Elkins House, Columbia, Missouri East Campus Neighborhood , a NRHP district consisting of mostly houses, in Columbia, Missouri Sanford F. Conley House , Columbia, Missouri
The Pythian Home of Missouri, also known as Pythian Castle, in Springfield, Missouri, was built in 1913 by the Knights of Pythias and later owned by the U.S. military. [1] German and Italian prisoners-of-war were assigned here during World War II for medical treatment and as laborers.