- List of castles in the United States
This is a list of
castle s in theUnited States . Note that none can properly be described as true castles. They are primarily country houses or follies, built in the style of medieval castles.*Bannerman's Castle, Pollepel Island, New York, an early 20th century arsenal and warehouse.
*Belcourt Castle , Newport, Rhode Island, a château built in the 1890s forOliver Belmont .
*Belvedere Castle , New York, a folly inCentral Park , built in 1869.
*Biltmore House, North Carolina, a late 19th century Châteauesque house, and the largest home in America.
*Bishop Castle , Colorado, a 20th century folly.
*Boldt Castle , Heart Island, Thousand Islands, an early 20th century house, with associated follies.
*Bull Run Castle , Aldie, Virginia.
*Campbell Castle , Wichita, KS, built in 1888, modeled after a feudal Scottish castle
*Carey Mansion , Rhode Island, a Châteauesque house.
*Castillo de San Marcos , St. Augustine, Florida, a Spanish fort. Construction began in 1672 and finished in 1695.
*Castello di Amorosa , Calistoga, California, a working winery.
*Castle Gwynn , Arrington-Triune, TN, a house built to look like a castle.
*Castle San Miguel , inHanceville, Alabama .
*Cinderella Castle , Lake Buena Vista, Florida, located inWalt Disney World .
*Coral Castle , Florida, a 20th century megalithic structure
*Coronado Heights , a hilltop tourist attraction in central Kansas
*Curwood Castle , Owosso, Michigan, an early 20th century replica of a French chateau.
*Dark Island Castle, Thousand Islands, a late 19th century house, based on descriptions in SirWalter Scott 's novels.
*Draiman Gothic Castle , Northridge, California, Built in 1993 by Mr Brownstein, A full feature Gothic Castle, with turets, gargoyles and Dragons.
*Druim Moir Castle , Philadelphia Pennsylvania, a late 19th century castle home, built for Pennsylvania railroad tycoonHenry H. Houston
*Excalibur , inFort Payne, Alabama , the home ofJeff Cook of the bandAlabama .
*Fair Lane , inDearborn, Michigan , the estate ofHenry Ford .
*Franklin Castle , Cleveland, Ohio, built in the late 19th century by a wealthy German immigrant
*Gillette Castle, Connecticut, an early 20th century mock-mediaeval house.
*Grey Towers Castle , a building of Arcadia University, Pennsylvania.
*Hammond Castle , located on the coast of Massachusetts near Gloucester.
*Hearst Castle , San Simeon, California, a 20th century mansion.
*Henderson Castle , Kalamazoo, Michigan, a late 19th century house in the Queen Anne Style.
*Herreshoff Castle , Marblehead, Massachusetts, a mock-mediaeval 20th century house.
*Lambert Castle , Paterson, NJ
*Loveland Castle , Loveland, Ohio, a 20th century folly.
*Meadow Brook Hall , Rochester Hills, Michigan, mansion of Matilda Dodge Wilson.
*Nichols Hall , a 20th century building of Kansas State University, built to look like a castle.
*Oheka Castle , Long Island, a 20th century country house.
*Olana State Historic Site , 1872 Persian/Victorian mansion
*Old Louisiana State Capitol , Baton Rouge, built in a Gothic Revival style in the mid-19th century.
*Old Main, a late 19th century Gothic Revival building ofEastern Illinois University .
*ThePiatt Castles , West Liberty, Ohio. late-19th century manors built by brothers Abram Sanders and Donn Piatt.
* [http://www.kentuckycastle.com/ Post Castle] , A castle in Kentucky, outside Lexington, near the Woodford County line.
*Quinlan Castle , inBirmingham, Alabama .
*Richthofen Castle , Denver, Colorado. Baron Walter vonRichthofen 's 1887rhyolite castle.
*Castle Museum (Saginaw)
*Searles Castle (New Hampshire) , Windham, New Hampshire, a 20th century replica of an English Tudor mansion.
*Shea's Castle , Antelope Valley, California, an early 20th century stone castle.
*Sleeping Beauty Castle , Anaheim, California, located inDisneyland .
*Squire's Castle , metropolitan Cleveland, Ohio.
*Ward's Castle , Port Chester, New York. Built in the 1870s, first reinforced concrete building in US.
*Wettershaw Manor (Castle), Shaw/Columbia Missouri. Built 1819 and is over convert|11000|sqft|m2|abbr=on.
*Wilson Castle , Proctor, Vermont, a late 19th century brick and marble estate.
*Winnekenni Castle , Haverhill, Massachusetts. Built in the mid 1870s in order to demonstrate the value of local stone as building material.
*Glamorgan Castle , Alliance, Ohioee also
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