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Fake Castles (page 10)

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The Castle of Muskogee
Muskogee, OK

2012:
2024:
The Castle of Muskogee features a Renaissance Festival, Halloween and Christmas Festivals, and other special events. Castle-like features were added to a warehouse building starting in 1995 for the first Oklahoma Renaissance Festival. There are other castle-like buildings on the 60-acre property. The tops of the East Gate turrets in the 2012 photo are gone now. There was still one left in 2024. For more, see these websites: 1, 2, and 3. [map]

Club 21 [gone]
Portland, OR
This may be stretching the definition of castle a little but I'll include this building since it had an interesting history. Club 21 was built as a Russian Orthodox Church in the 1930s. It later became a bar known as The Shadows. It had been Club 21, a bar, since 1958. It was demolished around 2017. For more, see this website.

Kings & Queens Hotel & Restaurant [gone]
Stoystown, PA
The Kings & Queens Hotel & Restaurant building was constructed in the 1930s as a hotel and auto repair shop. In 1938, it became the Hilltop Hotel. A restaurant and bar were added at that point. In 1970, the business was sold and it became the Kings & Queens. The castle-like remodeling took place at that time. The building was destroyed in a fire in 2023.

Fairy Tale Academy
Upper Darby, PA
The Fairy Tale Academy, a childcare and learning center, is housed in this castle-like building. [map]

More Pennsylvania:
former Child World (Lancaster)

Castle Video Games [gone]
Blacksburg, SC
Castle Video Games, a video game casino, opened in the late 1990s. A legal battle with the state of South Carolina quickly ensued over the legality of video game gambling. The state won the case and the place closed in 2000 and was abandoned after that. It was demolished in 2024.

More South Carolina:
Heritage USA (Fort Mill) [gone]
Ariel's (West Columbia)

Gold Diggers
Wall, SD
 Castle Building
Wall, SD
The Gold Diggers jewelry store has had this castle facade since at least 2005. [map]

This Castle Building serves as a pool supplies storage unit at an Americas Best Value Inn. [map]

Nichols' Sanitorium
Hot Springs, SD
Nichols' Sanitorium was built in 1907 for Dr. Perry Nichols as a cancer sanatorium. The building was sold in 1917 to the Lutheran Hospital Association. It later housed the Castle Manor nursing home. I believe the building has been vacant since 2014. For more, see this website. [map]

More South Dakota:
Valtiroty Shiloh's Tabernacle (Mitchell) [gone]

Tennessee:
Fortress of Faith (Greenback)
MagiQuest (Pigeon Forge)

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