Boldt Castle

 7/27/21

 Today we had reservations to tour Boldt Castle. Mr Boldt was a hotel owner back in the days of luxurious and elite hotels in the big cities. He purchased Heart Island, one of the thousands in the 1000 Islands , region of the St Lawrence River. On this island he wanted to build his wife a castle to show her how much he loved and appreciated her.

Before the castle was finished, Mrs Boldt died, never having lived in her husbands gift to her. Mr Boldt was devastated at her loss, ordered all work stopped and never set foot on the island again. The castle sat empty and open to the elements for years before the Island Authority took it over and started to renovate it back to its glory. There is still work to be done, repairs to rot from exposure and evidence of defacing of the walls and unfinished areas. Phil took a thousand pictures, and I can’t post all of them, but hopefully you will get the idea.

Of course, these pictures have loaded backwards, at the end of the day it started raining, which cut short our tour of the outside of the castle grounds, but we were exhausted anyway!

Making our way back to the dock to catch our ride back to shore.

This is a map of the castle and the grounds

The servants dining rooom

Built into the rock of the island

The pool area, one of the unfinished areas

As seen from the outside deck on one of the upper levels

Up in the attic area, the backside of the stained glass dome

Uncrated items as they were waiting for placement

The damage from exposure to the elements is obvious

Some of the finished rooms

Complete with an elevator

Mrs Boldt

Mr Boldt

We started our tour in the Yacht/boat house

The steam yacht

The facts

Lighthouse in the waterway around the castle

Our ride to and from the castle. If you have your own boat, you can dock it and do the tour