Chateau Laroche

Chateau Laroche

Coordinates: 39°17′00″N 84°15′58″W / 39.283234°N 84.266225°W / 39.283234; -84.266225

Chateau Laroche

Chateau Laroche "The Loveland Castle"
Established 1929
Location Loveland, Ohio
Type Curiosity museum
Director Maintained by the KOGT
Website www.lovelandcastle.com

Château Laroche, also known as the Loveland Castle, is a museum on the banks of the Little Miami River in Loveland, Ohio, United States. A folly of a historical European castle, construction began in 1929 by Boy Scout troop leader Harry Andrews. He built the castle on two free plots of land that his scouts obtained by paying for one-year subscriptions to The Cincinnati Enquirer.[1] When Andrews died in 1981 he willed the castle to his Boy Scout troop the Knights of the Golden Trail (KOGT).[2][3] The Castle has been extensively upgraded and renovated in the years since Andrews death and has been mostly completed by the KOGT. The East tower now houses a short video presentation on Andrews' quest to finish his dream. The walls of the upstairs chapel feature many stones brought back by Andrews in his world travels and others sent to him from foreign locations by his friends and followers. Recently completed are an expansion to the outside gardens and a greenhouse.

Tales of the castle being haunted – often coming from Chateau Laroche's own volunteer knights – have been reported over the years.[4]

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