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	Boldt Castle
		Boldt came to America in the 1860's from Prussia, the son of poor parents.
		Boldt never returned to the island, leaving it instead as an unfinished monument of a love story cut short.For 73 years the Castle and the other structures on the island were left to the mercy of the wind, rain, ice, snow, and vandals.
		Boldt, perhaps because of the romantic significance of the name, and in recognition of the physical shape of the island after his modifications.
	www.1000islands.com /castle (1530 words)

	Boldt Castle, Alexandria Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Boldt Castle, on Heart Island, was to be the testimony of the unsurpassed love of a man for his wife.
		For 73 years, the castle and various stone structures were left to the mercy of the wind, rain, ice, snow and vandals.
		Boldt Castle stands as an eternal monument to the memory of the man whose dreams were no more far-reaching than his capabilities.
	www.arduo.ca /jo/boldtcastle02.htm (252 words)

	Boldt Castle
		Boldt Castle was built at the turn of the century by multi-millionaire George C. Boldt for his wife, Louise, as a testimony of the unsurpassed love of a man for his wife.
		Boldt invested over $2.5 million to build this replica of a Rhineland castle, bringing in the finest of artists and the most skilled craftsmen for this project.
		For 73 years the Castle and the other structures on the island were left to the mercy of the wind, rain, ice, snow, and vandals.
	www.1000islands.com /alexbay/boldtcas.htm (1392 words)

	boldts.net - Boldt Castle
		One of the popular attractions in the Thousand Islands is Boldt Castle, built by George and Louise Boldt at the beginning of the 20th century.
		George Boldt was born April 25, 1851, in Prussia.
		As the story goes, when my ancester Heinrich Boldt was a child, probably in the late 1870's, a wealthy American relative visited the Boldt home in Hindenberg.
	www.boldts.net /Boldt-Castle.shtml (995 words)

	Boldt Castle Information
		The construction of Boldt Castle ceased abruptly in early 1904 after the death of Boldt's wife, Louise Kehrer Boldt.
		Today, Boldt Castle is accessible by ferry from Alexandria Bay, Gananoque, Ontario, Rockport, Ontario, and Ivy Lea, Ontario, and most of the grounds and buildings can be explored by the public for a fee.
		The rooms on the first floor of Boldt Castle are fully furnished, but they are mainly blocked off, or have signs on them prohibiting they be touched, to prevent accidental damage or vandalism.
	www.bookrags.com /Boldt_Castle (535 words)

	boldt
		The Boldt Castle was built by George C. Boldt, the same man who was part of the building and running of the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
		Boldt Castle stands as an eternal monument to the memory of the man whose dreams were no more far-reaching than his capabilities, and a testimony of the unsurpassed love of a man for
		The magnificence of the structure was to be equaled only by George Boldt's adoration of Louise, who was the love of his life and reason for the construction of such an elaborate summer home.
	www.rvtravelog.com /boldt.dir/boldt1.htm (632 words)

	Our Thousand Islands Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eventually, all the Boldt 1000 Islands property was sold to the man who invented the Life Saver.
		(Boldt Castle and Heart Island are very close to Alexandria Bay, NY.) There is a very interesting film that is shown in one of the rooms on the first floor which gives the history of the Boldt family and of Boldt Castle.
		Boldt Castle is in the middle of the island in the above picture.
	gary.appenzeller.net /TIsland4.html (391 words)

	Boldt Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Boldt Castle was built at the turn of the century by multi-millionaire George C. Boldt for his wife, Louise, as a testimony of his love for her.
		George Boldt ordered that all work be stopped and for 73 years the Castle and the other structures on the island were left to the forces of nature.
		I have always loved Boldt Castle, and the stories that surround it, so that was a special thing for me to be able to have done.
	www.dupontcastle.com /castles/boldt.htm (539 words)

	All Points North - The Unfinished Love Story of the Thousand Islands
		The island had, at Boldt's decree, been reshaped using sea walls to resemble the shape of a valentine heart, with the same symbol etched into the castle's plaster, stone, and wrought-iron work - a fitting motif for a Valentine's Day present for his wife, Louise, whose birthday fell on the holiday.
		Boldt's intended gift was estimated to cost $2.5 million in the early 20th century — and a staggering $200 million today.
		The marriage ceremony of Boldt and Louise took place in 1877, when Louise Kehrer of Philadelphia was 15 years old and Boldt, who had immigrated from Prussia as a teenager, was 26.
	www.apnmag.com /fall_2006/hale-boldtcastle.php (1110 words)

	Boldt Castle on Heart Island- A Virtual Tour
		He walked away from the castle and it was just left to the mercy of the elements and vandals, for 73 years.
		Boldt Castle was to be more than a grand dream.
		Boldt immediately telegrammed his construction foreman on the island, and ordered that all work be stopped.
	ivanoff12.hypermart.net /boldt/main.html (466 words)

	ArchitectureWeek - Culture - A Controversial Restoration - 2002.0123
		Boldt Castle demonstrates how a mission of public entertainment may gradually supplant concern for historical authenticity, even with well-intentioned stewardship.
		The castle is akin to other country houses of the period designed in a French Chateauesque style, such as Biltmore by William Morris Hunt, but is more inventive in form and less reliant on Beaux-Arts planning and historic precedent.
		Boldt Castle is one example of a more widespread problem: the "development" of historic buildings into "theme parks" for public entertainment.
	www.architectureweek.com /2002/0123/culture_1-2.html (1157 words)

	History of Boldt Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At the turn-of-the-century, George C. 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.
		The grandiose structure was to be a display of his love for his wife, Louise.
		Tower while 300 workers - stonemasons, carpenters, and artists - fashioned the six story, 120 room castle, complete with tunnels, a powerhouse, Italian gardens, a drawbridge, and a dovecote.
	www.ganboatline.com /history_boldt_castle.html (223 words)

	Boldt Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Boldt Castle is located on Heart Island, a multi-million dollar monument to love, lost through death.
		She never saw this castle, modeled after a 16th century European castle, built as proof of her husband's love.
		George Boldt was the epitomy of the immigrant's success story, a penniless Prussian immigrant who spoke no English who came to the United States and began work in a New York hotel kitchen.
	members.kingston.net /i5968g2r/E-Boldt.html (220 words)

	Andrew Cusack: Boldt Castle
		Boldt Castle would have been among the finest homes in all New York had it ever been completed.
		Tragically she died in 1904 before the castle was completed and work on the nearly-finished home stopped.
		After construction stopped in 1904, the structures on the island, including Boldt Castle, were boarded up and left to themselves until 1977 when they were purchased by the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority.
	www.andrewcusack.com /blog/2005/06/boldt_castle.php (467 words)

	Rockport Boat Line - Boldt Castle Cruise
		A telegram arrived at the castle announcing the death of George C. Boldt's wife.
		Boldt Castle is located in the U.S. and all passengers on this cruise are subject to United States Customs and Immigration at Boldt Castle, and upon return to Rockport, subject to Canada Customs and Immigration.
		Admission fees to Boldt Castle are not included in the cruise cost but are payable at the castle.
	www.rockportcruises.com /schedule_details.asp?id=7 (380 words)

	Boldt Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The construction of Boldt Castle ceased abruptly in early 1904 after the death of Boldt's wife, Louise Kehrer Boldt.
		Today, Boldt Castle is accessible by ferry from Alexandria Bay; Gananoque, Ontario; Rockport, Ontario; and Ivy Lea, Ontario; and most of the grounds and buildings can be explored by the public for a fee.
		There are numerous fountains located around the castle, including one that was originally to be used as a swimming pool in the basement, most of which have statues of lions spitting a continous stream of water from their mouths.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boldt_Castle (812 words)

	History
		Boldt telegrammed the island and commanded the workers to immediately "stop all construction." Louise had died suddenly.
		Boldt never returned to the island, leaving behind the structure as a monument of his love.
		For 73 years, the castle and various stone structures were left to the mercy of the wind, rain, ice, snow and vandals.
	www.boldtcastle.com /history.htm (232 words)

	BOLDT CASTLE: Renovations restore grandeur of a mansion built out of love
		Boldt Castle is shown on Heart Island, N.Y., May 12, 2000.
		HEART ISLAND, N.Y. - The first time Shane Sanford visited Boldt Castle as a youngster with his grandmother 30 years ago, he had to rely on a child's imagination to shape the tumbled granite and fallen rubble into the love-inspired palace it was intended to become.
		Thirty years later, a partially restored Boldt Castle sits in the middle of the St. Lawrence River as an anchor for the regional tourism industry that now sustains the Thousand Islands area.
	archive.tri-cityherald.com /travel/stories/nation/boldtcastle.html (1097 words)

	Boltdt
		Boldt Castle is actually one of four important structures open to the public, including two smaller stone "castles" and a gigantic, towered yacht house.
		This castle straddles the Canada US border and is a large castle built as a summer home on an island in the St Lawrence River.
		I would also note that my book on Castles in Ontario, to be titled "Castles and Their Kings", will be released in May of 2001.
	www.castles.org /castles/America/Boldt.htm (287 words)

	Boldt Castle - Gift of Love - Page1
		Louise Boldt was active in her husband's hotel business, not only as hostess but also in supervising the hotel's service.
		Louise Boldt assisted her husband in purchasing furnishing from Europe and oversaw the placement of the purchases in the Waldorf Hotel.
		This once magnificent, yet unfinished castle had been left to the harshness of the elements; to water erosion, rain, snow and fire, and to man; vandals, thieves and the unfortunate, but necessary iron and steel salvage needs of World War II, for far too many years, since 1904.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Meadows/3702/boldt1.html (1960 words)

	Boldt Castle - SLIP
		Boldt Castle, the grandest of all Gilded Age mansions, remains a testimony to one man's tragic love story.
		In 1900, millionaire proprietor of the world-famous Waldorf-Astoria, George C. Boldt set out to build a Rhineland style castle on Heart Island in the 1000 Islands Region of the Saint Lawrence River.
		Boldt died and all work on the Castle ceased.
	www.slip-passport.org /sites/boldt.html (148 words)

	Boldt Castle: a Virtual Tour Homepage
		Boldt Castle is part of the love and the lure of the 1000 Islands region.
		They have wandered through rooms planned with love and care, they have wondered in awe at the man and the woman for whom this castle was meant to be a dream come true.
		Select from one of many views of the castle and other island structures.
	ivanoff12.hypermart.net /boldt/index.html (473 words)

	The Thousand Islands and Boldt Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dwight, an historian, grins at the pretenses of "castleness" but genuinely appreciates these efforts to keep the monuments of the past alive and accessible to the grand public and really enjoyed the hotdogs at the concession stands on the docks.
		Boldt Castle may be stupid and venal, and wasteful, and presumptuous, and built on the sweat of the ill-treated masses, but in the right light it's kind of beautiful.
		Boldt Castle rises to the heavens in all its sentimental glory.
	homepage.iprolink.ch /dpeck/ottawa2004b.htm (1154 words)

	Castle Tour page 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Boldt castle is not the only castle-type home that has been built in the Thousand Islands, but it is the largest and it is the only one remaining.
		George Boldt bought Hart Island (which he renamed "Heart Island") and began building a castle there as a gift for his wife, Louise at the turn of the century.
		Boldt Castle is at the end of the Thousand Islands tour, so we headed back, picked up some Chinese food, and spent the evening playing Dungeons and Dragons (a favorite occupation) while we washed out our clothes for the second half of the trip.
	www.dragonsholm.org /castrpt6.htm (627 words)

	George Boldt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The castle was intended as a gift for his wife Louise Kehrer Boldt, but when she died suddenly in 1904, construction was halted.
		The castle, which has gone under major restoration after decades of vandalism, is now a major summer tourist attraction at Alexandria Bay.
		Boldt is credited with popularizing Thousand Island dressing during his time at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, when he instructed Maître d' Oscar Tschirky to include it on the menu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Boldt (217 words)

	Boldt Castle Statistics
		castle rises six stories, from the foundation level of the indoor swimming pool, to the highest tower room (the water tower)
		castle includes four small towers 40 feet high, two towers 60 feet high, and the larger (water) tower rises to 75 feet
		slabs of granite measuring 8 feet by 14 feet by 8 inches were cut and used in the construction of the castle.
	ivanoff12.hypermart.net /boldt/stats.html (249 words)

	Thousand Islands Bridge Authority
		IN 1977 THE TIBA WAS GIFTED THE BOLDT CASTLE attraction on Heart Island, a major tourist destination in the 1000 Islands region, but a property that had been allowed to decline to a state of disrepair.
		In 1978, the first year the Authority operated the Boldt Castle attraction, attendance was tallied at 99,000 visitors.
		Through the years, Boldt Castle has been a tremendous tourist attraction with incalculable benefit for the 1000 Islands International region and will continue to for years to come thanks largely to the Authority's rehabilitation efforts and caretaker program.
	www.tibridge.com /boldtcastle.htm (191 words)

	Fodor's Travel Wire \| Visit the Castle Where Love Died (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But there are castles in the U.S., and some of them even look like the real thing, with grand stone walls and tall spires, dramatic parapets, and gothic embellishments.
		Boldt Castle was the creation of hotel tycoon George C. Boldt, who owned the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
		Heartbroken, Boldt immediately stopped the ongoing construction and he never returned to the castle or the island.
	www.fodors.com /wire/archives/001186.cfm (366 words)

	Castles on the Web for castles, castle photos, castle of the day: Palaces and Homes
		Boldt Castle: a Virtual Tour is a website containing over 340 pages about Boldt Castle, in the 1000 Islands region of Northern NY State.
		Castles and stately homes occupied by, and often built by, Burke's Peerage and Gentry families throughout the centuries.
		Built by a professor of medieval history to resemble a twelfth-century Norman hall, Castle Grand Souci sits overlooking the Elk and Tennessee Rivers in northern Alabama.
	www.castlesontheweb.com /search/Palaces_and_Homes (446 words)

	Boldt to get castle competition CNY Business Journal (1996+) - Find Articles
		The castle also features a dungeon built into one of its turrets as well as several secret pas sages.
		The castle builders used granite from Oak Island, as did the builders of Boldt Castle.
		Like George Boldt, Bourne brought his Manhattan wealth to the St. Lawrence River in the 1890s, however unlike Boldt, Bourne completed his castle and continued to use the property well into the 20th century.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3718/is_200307/ai_n9276205 (694 words)

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