Boldt Castle

While visiting the lake we went up and visited the thousand islands. There are litearlly thousands of islands in the St. Lawrence seaway between Canada and America. It was gorgeous. One particular island is called Heart Island b.c of it's shape. The story behind this island is great but I will keep it short. There was a man named Mr. Boldt who grew up poor. He moved to NY city and started working in the Waldorf hotel in the late 1800's. He met his wife there (Louise) They started running some of the really nice hotels in Ny city and started saving there money.Quickly he became very rich and they vacationed in the thousands islands. He saw this island and liked how it was shaped like heart. They bought it and he started building his wife a castle on it. Now this is what I would call a miniture Biltmore. Beautiful place! About a year and a half before it was completely finished the wife died of heart failure. She was only in her 40's. He was heart broken and never finished the castle. They let it just sit there and get run down. Eventually the port authority came to own it and now they are fixing it up. Many things around the grounds resemble a heart shape. That was very neat!We had fun walking around the grounds and seeing some of the newly finished rooms they have been working on.