Colorado Experience: The Redstone Castle
Wander through the extravagant halls of the Redstone Castle and meet the creator who forged an empire atop the remote and rugged Rocky Mountains
Inside to Outside of Redstone Castle Colorado
Redstone Castle in Colorado was built in 1903 by John C. Osgood, founder of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. The tour to the castle costs 25$. Most of the artifacts in the Castle are original including the quilt. The Castle has hosted Theodore Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller and King Leopold of Belgium to name a few. The recent owner who bought it in 2016, wants to make it a resort.
Platinum Luxury Auctions: Redstone Castle | Redstone, CO
SOLD! Welcome to Redstone Castle, a turn of the century jewel completed in 1902 for industrialist and coal magnate John Cleveland Osgood. On the National Register of Historic Places since 1971, this Property provides a unique opportunity for investment as a single-family residence or resort.
The +/- 23,000 interior sq. ft. main residence contains 42 rooms that range from an English-style Great Hall to a Russian inspired formal dining room to a delicate Ladies’ Drawing Room decorated in the French style. Oversized claw-foot bathtubs grace the bathrooms, and Persian carpets embellish the floors.
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Redstone Castle Virtual Tour
Originally named Cleveholm Manor, Redstone Castle anchors the mountain hamlet of Redstone, in the magnificent Crystal River Valley. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, the Castle provides a unique glimpse into the personal styles and social culture of America’s elite at the turn of the 20th century.
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Wander through the extravagant halls of the 1897 Redstone Castle and meet the creator that forged an empire atop the remote and rugged Rocky Mountains.
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Redstone Castle Suites Tour
Originally named Cleveholm Manor, Redstone Castle anchors the mountain hamlet of Redstone, in the magnificent Crystal River Valley. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, the Castle provides a unique glimpse into the personal styles and social culture of America’s elite at the turn of the 20th century.
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Address: 58 Redstone Boulevard, Redstone, CO 81623
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Your next Colorado Day Trip - Redstone Castle!
Redstone Castle Will Become Boutique Hotel
The iconic landmark is located in Carbondale.
Our cabin in Redstone, Colorado
This is where we stayed for our vacation!
Plan To Turn Redstone Castle Into A Bed & Breakfast Approved
County Commissioners in Pitkin County have approved a plan to turn Redstone Castle into a bed and breakfast.
Experience Redstone, Colorado
Picture perfect and historic, unplug and unwind in Redstone, a Colorado mountain town experience you won't easily forget. Located in the White River National Forest, Redstone is an original 1902 mining town, and today features shops, cafes, art galleries on its Mayberry-like Main Street. The Crystal River edges the town attracting fly fishers and lovers of rivers. Redstone's beehive coke ovens, serve as a historic nod to its 1899 open-air coal-processing days of 1899, once operated by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company.
A drive through Redstone, Colorado
Redstone is located alongside state higway 133 about 27 kilometres (17 miles) south of Carbondale (which, itself, is about 150 miles/240 kilometres southwest of Denver). Redstone sits at an elevation of 2,195 metres (7,203 feet) and appears to be a fun little tourist town with a mining museum about the size of a large garage!
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I visit Glen Eyrie Castle in Colorado Springs.
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American Southwest (#06): Marble & Redstone, Colorado
The Marble Capital of the United States ... was initially settled by prospectors who formed a camp known as Yule Creek, named for pioneer George Yule. Gold, silver, and lead were mined from 1880 into the 1890s. Even before the prospectors found their deposits, geologist Sylvester Richardson had noted in 1873 the beds of marble in Whitehouse Mountain. The marble was merely a curiosity then, because it was on the Ute Reservation. After the Utes were moved west to allow prospectors in, attempts to quarry the stone in the 1880s enjoyed limited profitability because of the area's remoteness from a railhead.
The standard-gauge Crystal River & San Juan Railroad was completed from Carbondale in 1906, connecting the finishing mill at Marble with the Denver & Rio Grande branch line to Aspen. That rail link, combined with a four-mile-long electric railway that transported marble from the quarry to the huge finishing mill, made production much more lucrative. The first large order, for a Cleveland courthouse, invigorated the community. The best years followed, peaking from 1912 to 1917. The town was, literally, made by and of marble. Entire buildings were constructed of it, as were foundations and even sidewalks.
The town of Marble had its share of setbacks. A fire in 1916 destroyed much of downtown. Avalanches buried the finishing mill and the railroad tracks. Financial problems forced the closure of the quarry in 1941, as consumers began to order veneers instead of blocks or to choose cheaper marble substitutes. Mudslides in that year took large portions of the business section. Machinery, rails, even metal window frames were salvaged for scrap during World War II. Its glory days apparently over, Marble became a town of pleasant summer cabins.
Redstone ... named for its sandstone cliffs, Redstone came to life because of vast coal deposits found in 1884 by John Cleveland Osgood. He and other investors founded the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, which became an industry giant. Their mines at Coal Basin, four miles west of Redstone, produced more than a million tons of coal. Osgood was a different brand of capitalist. Instead of taking advantage of underpaid workers, he did quite the opposite, creating Redstone as a model company town with practically utopian conditions. Married men and their families lived in eighty-four Swiss-chalet-style cottages, no two alike. Each two-to-five-room cottage, landscaped with lawns and gardens, had the then-unheard of luxury of electricity and running water. Bachelors lived in a forty-room lodge, now the respected Redstone Inn. Its clubhouse was open to all employees and featured a library and theater, where the company provided drama productions, lectures, and concerts.
Bishop Castle from the air. Colorado
Bishop Castle Colorado 2016 with DJI Phantom 3 Standard. Drone
7 Castles Secret. Colorado.
Exploring super sketchy Bishop's Castle in Colorado
I started practicing shooting more youtube content from a personal level recently, and I am starting to get a hang of the Vlogging thing now. I mean, not during the filming of this video, but I mean after it. Practice makes perfect lol. This video has nothing to do with drifting, I just wanted to post something light and fun and see how the audience would react to it. It is sketchy though, and I love sketchy things.
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Sorry this isn't a drift video lol!
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Bishop Castle is an elaborate and intricate one-man project named after its constructor, Jim Bishop, that has become a roadside attraction in central Colorado.
The castle is located in south central Colorado on State Highway 165[4] in the Wet Mountains of Southern Colorado in the San Isabel National Forest, southwest of Pueblo, Colorado.
Overview
Bishop bought the land for the site for $450 when he was 15,and construction on what was originally intended to be a family project to build a cottage started in 1969.[8] After Bishop surrounded the cottage with rocks, several neighbors noted that the structure looked something like a castle. Bishop took this into consideration and soon began building his castle.
According to Roadsideamerica, for most of the 40 years he has worked on the castle Bishop was engaged in a running battle with Washington bureaucrats over the rocks that he used, which came from the National Forest surrounding his property. Bishop felt that they were his for the taking, the government wanted to charge him per truckload. That dispute has been settled.[9] In 1996, he was challenged by the local and state government over unsanctioned road signs that pointed to the site. They settled the dispute by issuing official road signs.
The site has become a tourist attraction, and Roadsideamerica.com devoted a chapter to the castle and rated it major fun and describing it as, one man's massive-obsessive labor of medieval fantasy construction. But it also issued a parent's alert, warning potential visitors that Jim Bishop is a tough-talking man with strong, extreme beliefs, and sometimes he expresses them bluntly and loudly. If you and your children want to avoid potentially offensive rants (involving politics and race), you may want to steer clear.
In the winter of 2014-15 a dispute developed over control of the castle after Jim Bishop and his wife Phoebe were both diagnosed with cancer, and David Merrill, who Jim considered a friend, was made a trustee of Bishop Castle. According to Westword.com website, Merrill turned the site into Castle Church — for the Redemption, according to the Custer County Clerk and Recorder's Office. Since then, the Bishops have spent $20,000 trying to get a clear title to Bishop Castle, and to get Merrill's name off all paperwork.
A song about the castle; called Fire Breathing Dragon, is featured on the 2017 album, The Castle Builder, by English musician Kid Carpet.
On March 28, 2018, a fire ignited on the Bishop Castle property, disintegrating the gift shop and a guest house. The fire is speculated to be electrical, and did not damage the castle itself. Despite the fire, the attraction re-opened to the public later that week, while being supported with donations and volunteer labor.
A Quick Visit To Bishop Castle in Colorado
A quick tour of one of the most unusual structures we've ever experienced.
Waterfalls-Redstone, Colorado-Oct. 8, 2011.wmv
This waterfall was just off Highway 133 on the north side of the road near McClure Pass which is located just west of Redstone, Colorado. I used a 2011 Nikon Coolpix S8100 digital camera with the setting on Automatic. The vertical video came as horizontal by default. I used Windows Live Movie Maker to rotate it vertically. It is only 49 seconds in length, but 120MBs and took about 2 & 1/2 hours to upload leaving it in .WMA extension. I'm still new at video uploads and learning about tips and websites where one can get conversion tools. I would have preferred a conversion to .FLV extension for faster upload.
The Video was taken Oct. 8, 2011 at 4:35 p.m. local time.