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The HEART-SHAPED Island Castle ABANDONED for 73 Years - Boldt Castle

The HEART-SHAPED Island Castle ABANDONED for 73 Years 👉 Subscribe Boldt Castle: The Heart-Shaped Island Abandoned for 73 Years In 1900, George Boldt—the man who made the Waldorf-Astoria the most famous hotel in the world—began building a 120-room castle on a heart-shaped island in the St. Lawrence River. 300 workers. $2.5 million (roughly $90 million today). Six stories. Eleven buildings. Underground tunnels. A power house with chimes that could be heard four miles away. Then, in January 1904, a single telegram arrived at the island. Construction stopped immediately. 300 workers dropped their tools and left. George Boldt never returned. For 73 years, the castle sat empty—looted, vandalized, exposed to the elements. Rain poured through the roof. The iron was stripped for the war effort. By the 1970s, the structure was dangerous to enter. What could make a man abandon his nearly-finished dream? This video traces the full story: George Boldt's unlikely rise from a 13-year-old immigrant working in hotel kitchens to the proprietor of the largest hotel in the world. His discovery of a small island in the Thousand Islands region. His decision to reshape it into the form of a heart and build something no one had attempted before. And the single event that brought it all to a halt four months before completion. It also follows what happened after—the decades of decay, the unexpected buyer who paid one dollar for the entire property in 1977, and the 45-year effort to restore what time had nearly destroyed. #empireestates #mansions #oldmoney #boldt