{"id":1392,"date":"2021-07-08T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2021-07-08T16:53:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T20:53:59","slug":"the-castles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/?p=1392","title":{"rendered":"The Castles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not that you think all of the Thousand Islands is wilderness and boat or cabin life…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boldt Castle, Heart Island<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The Alster, modeled after a castle on the Rhine, a man cave with bowling alleys and taxidermy where guests were entertained upon arrival to the island.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The main house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The power house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Dove-cote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The formal gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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George Boldt commissioned this castle in 1900 as a birthday present for his wife. She died in 1904, before it was completed. All work stopped when she died and the castle fell into disrepair. It was taken over by the Thousand Island Bridge Authority in 1977.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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When the Bridge Authority took over, this is representative of the condition in which they found the property. It had been neglected and abused for 73 years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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These photos are representative of the restoration work that the TIBA has done to date. The Boldts never resided in this structure so all of the restoration has been done using plans that were left behind or from other examples of the same period.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The boat house with crew quarters!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The center bay has the height needed to accommodate Boldt’s sailing yacht’s mast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The boat house where the boats lived… \ud83d\ude43<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Singer Castle, Dark Island<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Yes, that Singer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Unlike Boldt Castle, this was the actual residence of Fredrick Bourne, the fifth President of the Singer Corporation, then his daughter Marjorie and finally a religious order. In that regard, it is more impressive for its authenticity although less opulent. Built in 1905, Bourne fulfilled himself a childhood dream, with secret passage ways and stairs running through the the castle on all five floors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not that you think all of the Thousand Islands is wilderness and boat or cabin life… Boldt Castle, Heart Island Singer Castle, Dark Island Unlike Boldt Castle, this was the actual residence of Fredrick Bourne, the fifth President of the Singer Corporation, then his daughter Marjorie and finally a religious order. In that regard, it… Continue reading The Castles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thousand-islands","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}