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Pollepel Island. Coordinates: 41°27′19″N 73°59′20″W. The island and castle viewed from atop Breakneck Ridge. Pollepel Island / pɒlɪˈpɛl / is a 6.5-acre (26,000 m 2) uninhabited island in the Hudson River in New York, United States. The principal feature on the island is Bannerman's Castle, an abandoned military surplus warehouse.
The castle, built by Francis Bannerman VI in 1901, operated as both a home and storage facility for his business during the 20th century, but today hosts a number of walking tours and events ...
The Amelia Barr House The Church of the Holy Innocents and its rectory The J. Y. Dykman Flour and Feed Store Pollepel Island (closest on right), site of Bannerman's Castle, seen from the Storm King Highway. Amelia Barr House, Cornwall-on-Hudson; Bannerman's Island Arsenal, Fishkill; Bear Mountain Bridge Cortlandt and Stony Point
Ha Ha Tonka State Park is a public recreation area encompassing over 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) on the Niangua arm of the Lake of the Ozarks, about five miles south of Camdenton, Missouri, in the United States. The state park 's most notable feature is the ruins of Ha Ha Tonka, an early 20th-century stone mansion that was modeled after European ...
Bannerman Castle. Cold Spring, New York. On New York’s Hudson River is a 6.5-acre island called Pollepel Island. On it, lies Bannerman Castle, built by Francis Bannerman who built it in the ...
The castle in art. De Sade described his castle in two of his works – La Marquise de Ganges and Les cent vingt journées de Sodome (The 120 Days of Sodom) – under the name of the Château de Silling. The castle is used as a backdrop in the comic Dick Herisson, by Didier Savard. In the album Le Vampier the castle is the centre of a proto ...
Geography. Located in the Vale of Glamorgan, St Athan lies off the B4265 road, roughly 8 miles (13 km) by road northwest of downtown Barry.A 1632 survey defined the boundaries of the manor of St Athan by Eglwys Brewis and Castleton to the north; South Orchard, West Orchard and Llantwit Major to the west, Gileston and the Bristol Channel to the south; and East Orchard and the River Thaw to the ...
Chip and Joanna sought to return the building to its former glory but in a way that was suited to a 21st-century family. “During the renovation process, we repeatedly returned to the castle’s ...