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You've Heard Of McMansion, Now Meet The McCastle
And to think, all this medieval, zombie defense splendour can be yours for under $1 million!
Widely known as simply The Castle, this majestic 15,000+ square foot residence on 10 acres will easily accommodate gatherings of 100. Create your own masterpiece within the flexible floor plan. Elevator ready. Potential for caretaker or staff apartments, banquet space or ballrooms, and a drive-in garage space which could accommodate a catering kitchen. Multiple living spaces, powder rooms, and huge unfinished basement await.
Plenty of room for storing food (or playing chess)
Upstairs very similar to downstairs... but flexible
Kitchen needs work...
Dungeon?
Bath - with defensive views...
Panic Room/Garage...
Not fully fortified...
h/t Muppet Pimp
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No moat. Useless.
Plus, lawn looks like shit and that plays havoc with curb appeal.
Fuck yeah, A'Murca!
It looks very, very, lonely.
I don't know, I would have given my left nut for this when I was doing SCA stuff.
"Bye boys! Have fun storming the castle!".
No thanks. #property tax
FWIW, I think Texas is one of the only, if not the only state where alloidal title exists any longer.
ETA Nevada also. But both have some restrictions
Guess you'll always be a renter and slave to the State.
Can you say foreclosure?
Grounds are in trashed condition and there is no appliances to be seen anywhere.
I'd say bank owned.
DaddyO
home for incurable tyrants and kings
The FSA could turn this into their HQ.
Call it ObamAcre.
moat
mcMoat
“no appliances to be seen anywhere”
..not even a lousy 155mm for the top of the large tower.
Made out of cardboard ?
Perfect for the mexican family of say ......20?
Prepper Central for when TSHTF and you get TEOTWAWKI.
Gold vault in the Dungeon or the King suite? Not in the Queen suite, that's for sure.
Mount those 50 cal. puppies in the Tower!
Pack it and Rack it, baby! Yihaa!
Sorry. Hey, where's your sense of humor?
Winning!
Checked tax role, owner is Bank of New York Mellon, who is dutifully paying the $28k annual property taxes on this gem.
OMFG....
Prior owner and presumed builder of said castle is the founder of this organization. Per the website, you can procure some frozen semen....
http://www.fhanamembers.com/rosehillfriesians/
This explains the cheap tackyness.
Hope the bank holding this piece of shit never finds a buyer!
Last I checked Nevada's alloidal title provisions expired.
Anyway, me & the chat posse were talking about buying this place and turning it into a ZH flop house. If you're interested in making it a reality then PM me.
I am Chumbawamba.
what does it have for a landing strip?
Well manicured lawn or bald patch ?
If you become a Gold Member (minimum one million dollar investment) we will build you your own personal landing strip with concierge and access to the VIP bar.
-Chumblez.
We need to put a gogo in there...
Stripper poles.. whoor cages...
Wrong...
Nevada ended it in 2005 and it's not available in Texas...from Wikipedia "acquiring an allodial title in either of these states is no longer an option".
Looks like a great place to hold a dungeons and dragons tournament
What a piece of shit.
In England people built the most crazy useless buildings in the late 1800s, they were called "follies". This was done at the empire's peek and they've had a continuous decline since.
This castle is a folly.
The perfect home for a Powerball winner living in some trailer park.
Do they serve "sliders" at the open houses?
how do people who are too stoopid for words acquire the money to build such a giant piece of shiite. Is it that easy for the below average IQ individual in 'Murica to acquire millions of dollars to squander on not only a design abomination but one that is the size of a small strip mall. How fucked up is it ??
LOL, the best part is that particular arched window and doorway used in this abomination was an architectural favorite for MUSLIMS all the way back to the 12 and 13th century......fucking stoopid rednecks don't even know when they've been punk'd
Perfect for the mexican family of 20 ?
Paintball fort!
What kind of douche bag custom builds a castle then gets some shitty, off the shelf, Home Depot particle board cabinets with faux wood veneer with sold wood fronts? And to top if off, probably some ultra-pourous 'granite' that sucks up all that chicken juice and salmonella? And it had to be a rich asshole with no friends because he clearly doesn't have enough to throw a party judging by how not-serious he was about cooking for them.
What a douche. I wonder what it listed for a few years back?
Hoping that asshole lost his tunic!
No offense to Texans, but Texas isn't exactly reknown for good taste. I think it's right below post-soviet Russia in taste. That's especially true within the gravitational pull of Dallas.
In Russia their gawdyness is petina'd with age.
and what's with the checkered floor? WTF? I've often toyed with the idea of buying an old farm in Brittany, beautiful buildings, beautiful land, but fuck the French government. Maybe after the next revolution.
Dead nouveau riche giveaway.
"what's with the checkered floor?"
This place is all set up to be a masonic blue lodge:
http://www.masonic-lodge-of-education.com/mosaic-pavement.html
Maybe that explains why so many Texas "people" are fawning over Vladimir Putin right now.
The saddest part is that I'd bet a lot that it has a poor quality or tainted and/or inadequate water supply.
If so, good luck with the availability of water delivery, if it's available, and the cost of such water delivery, for however long it's even available.
Without secure, clean water supply, the real value of any real estate is $0 minus the carrying costs.
^^^^This.
That is the least tastefully appointed "castle" I've ever seen and am so offended by the lack of adherence to basic pattern language building principles and the horrid fixtures that I am certain that those who directed this fiasco have little cartoon bubbles labeled "American Dream" dancing about their heads.
the crew of 12 that came up with this fiasco didn't combine for 800 on an SAT
here's a fixer-upper that serves no military purpose at all as well: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/travel/Walk+footsteps+Monuments/9489692/s...
Comes with a second one still not completed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohenschwangau_Castle
They've got the real deal at Wurzburg. "That one faced the towns people because they were always in revolt against the authorities."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Salaria
you get the idea.
"we've always been fighting over one resource or another."
prior to current owner BNY....
John and Charlote Dumford of Rockwall TX
http://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Rockwall/charlotte-dumford/38639694...
Looking at the photographs it's sad to see a man of such class and taste lose this modern treasure to foreclosure; I'd be willing to bet his Hooter's franchise went tits up - a victim of our limp economy.
The landscaping (and interior) does look like shit! The only thing that could make this monstronsity look a little better would be to drop it in the middle of a dense woods near a lake, and grow a thick cover of ivy over no less than 3/4ths of it.
Total fail. Just like the real estate market itself
There is obviously not enough space for the owners ego.
At least it has a garage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II_of_Bavaria
https://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv1-msgr&p=bugs%20bunny%20w...
it's America off to Ukraine!
No moat. No problem. Just have vats of boiling oil ready in the turrets.
Yup, no moat, but one could be dug!
What I don't like are all those ground floor windows....those gotta' go. Replace 'em with arrow slits.
Otherwise.....I'll take one!!
How much for a division of archers these days?
In bitcoins or tungsten?
"Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man" - Gen. George S. Patton
Oh, and it's ugly as shit.
Maybe it comes with wenches.
I used to live in a McCastle, but I downsized to a McShittyApartment.
Better than a McVan down by the McRiver.
Somebody didn't appreciate my pithy tactical observation. HA!
It's probably some fuckwit that has stockpiled for the end of the world living in a secret bunker that doesn't even know the names of his neighbors. You still have a little time my friend, you still have time...
Perhaps they had the foresight to know that you'd award yourself the title of 'pithy'.
Big Patton fan, but defensible fortresses made tremendous sense for thousands of years and practially even up to the time of his birth. Tanks when he was 30 yrs old were still pathetic monstrosities and liabilities to anyone in them.
Given the available offensive armaments and the supply chain situation, they in fact were the only thing that made sense for those thousand of years. Impregnable is one term that comes to mind.
Might as well say that walled cities were useless.
Patton's point would have had more validity and in particular more relevance if we were still building them in 1944 with the expectation that they'd offer long-term defense. It's easy to 2nd guess when you're commanding an Armored Division.
Don't worry, you don't have to agree with me, but let me hit you with some real world experience.
It's not just armor that is the problem. A fixed position is based on many assumptions, and requires precious resources to implement. Most or many assumptions when making contact with the enemy are proven wrong (Maginot line). Natural terrain augmented with very light use of fixed and "hastyish" positions is a great combination. Just look at the Afghanis. They have shit fire and maneuver tactics, shit weapons systems, shit comms and equipment, but they kicked the shit out of the entire US Army with (based on estimates) about 30,000-40,000 men.
There was plenty of MRAPS and pseudo armor in Afghanistan. We got spanked. Mobility is key. If an enemy has a fortified position, you just block his logistics and wait him out. Mobility,as well as effective fire and maneuver always trumps fixed positions period. Patton was right, but it wasn't just because he was an armor commander.
^^This^^
Even the average home is based on the assumption that nature will not flood, burn, blow, or shake it to pieces. Permanent fixtures on the landscape are nothing more than targets for gangs of thugs (government), hence the "ownership society." Discourage voting by footsteps.
A guy named Temujin did well in Afghanistan. He was highly mobile.
You make many assumptions including air power and lots of oil... After the EMP / Class X solar flares, fortifications will make much more sense.
...and non-state actors rarely have armor or air power; look at the compounds built by white farmers in Africa / Zimbabwe.
It's a value proposition. The farmers in Africa are completely dependent on their farm for survival, and the value of the property was worth risking life and limb for some people. When your next meal depends on defending your farm ground, you'll defend it. If you live in suburbia, or an urban area, there is nothing worth defending. GTFO. Armies destroyed fortified positions centuries before armor and air power. Don't get overconfident.
Part of the reason that the fortifications came about in England was that they were the most effective way to defend against the Viking raids. They were dealing with a highly mobile force, but it didn't have seige weapons and was only interested in looting and whatnot, so it wasn't interested in seige. Whether or not fortifications make sense depends on your foe.
You're right. Know your enemy and know yourself and you wil not be endangered in 100 battles... Sun Tzu had something to say about your point that is very apropos.
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Just look at the Afghanis. They have shit fire and maneuver tactics, shit weapons systems, shit comms and equipment, but they kicked the shit out of the entire US Army...
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The Afghanis also did well against both the UK and the USSR, when both were (militarily) world-class powers.
I believe Patton was referring to the then current and modern fixed fortifications the Germans had been putting up to stop the western invasion. The grand Atlantic Wall being the posterchild. The allies didn't even attack around it. They went straight through it.
Patton wasn't talking about only modern fortifications. He was an astute student of history. He was speaking in a holistic context. Elaborate fixed fortifications are stupid. It comes from experience. Static defenses buy time, that's it. It's a natural law of defense.
Yup...fixed point defense is a bitch.
But there might be no alternative. There's another famous quote (can't remember the source) that, "Refugees are just people who are going somewhere else to die ."
"Bugging out" can be just as sure a way to die as fighting in one spot.
It all depends upon context and the situation. For my part, at age 62, I ain't runnin' nowhere. I'll go down (or not) shooting right from my living room, thank you very much!
I'm not saying saying put isn't an option, just that from a defensive standpoint, it's foolish to dump enormous resources into a fixed position is foolish. Time and resources are better spent networking with your neighbors and community.
Just for you they'll put it on wheels.
Gen. George S. Patton was murdered by the jews.
The Man Who Killed General Patton
"The murder of Patton is known for a fact, known for the very simple reason that an agent of the well-known OSS (Office Of Strategic Services), an American Military Spy named Douglas Bazata, A Jew of Lebanese origin, announced it in front of 450 invited guests, nearly all high-ranking ex-members of the OSS at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC the 25th of September, 1979."
"Bazata stated, word-for-word: 'For diverse political reasons, many extremely high-ranking persons hated Patton. I know who killed him because I am the one who was hired to do it. Ten thousand dollars. General William J. 'Wild Bill' Donovan himself, director Of O.S.S, entrusted ne with the mission. I set up the 'accident.' Since he didn't die in the accident, he was kept in isolation in the hospital, where he was killed with a cyanide injection."
General George S. Patton was assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders claims new book
"The newly unearthed diaries of a colourful assassin for the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS) [Office of Soviet Stooges], the forerunner of the CIA, reveal that American spy chiefs wanted Patton dead because he was threatening to expose allied collusion with the Russians that cost American lives."
"But after a decade-long investigation, military historian Robert Wilcox claims that OSS head General 'Wild Bill' Donovan ordered a highly decorated marksman called Douglas Bazata to silence Patton... ."
"His book, 'Target Patton', contains interviews with Mr Bazata, who died in 1999, and extracts from his diaries, detailing how he staged the car crash by getting a troop truck to plough into Patton's Cadillac and then shot the general with a low-velocity projectile, which broke his neck while his fellow passengers escaped without a scratch."
"Mr Bazata also suggested that when Patton began to recover from his injuries, US officials turned a blind eye as agents of the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB, poisoned the general."
"Mr Wilcox told The Sunday Telegraph that when he spoke to Mr Bazata: 'He was struggling with himself, all these killings he had done. He confessed to me that he had caused the accident, that he was ordered to do so by Wild Bill Donovan.'"
"The driver of the truck was whisked away to London before he could be questioned and no autopsy was performed on Patton's body."
"With the help of a Cadillac expert from Detroit, Mr Wilcox has proved that the car on display in the Patton museum at Fort Knox is not the one Patton was driving."
"'That is a cover-up,' Mr Wilcox said."
It was a cover-up, but I'm pretty sure it was an inside job. Patton threatened the Army, and he was most likely to be off'ed by those around him. Patton wasn't exactly loved by the senior generals, especially McArthur. He was a wealthy man who was there because he believed in what he was doing and didn't have easily available control points or leverage. He was independent, a patriot. I don't agree with his assessment of the soviets, had he had his way, we would have been far worse off, but I digress...
They should have let him go into civilian life and write books, but they murdered him. very sad. It just shows the respect that is given to the military. If they treat generals the way they treated Patton, how does that translate to the PFCs and new enlistees? I have an answer from the experience of my own people, but it's not good.
DP = displaced persons = jews
The Patton Papers: 1940-1945
"Today we received a letter... in which we were told to give the Jews special accommodations. If for Jews, why not Catholics, Mormons, etc? We are also turning over to the French several hundred thousand [German] prisoners of war to be used as slave labor in France. It is amusing to recall that we fought the Revolution in defense of the rights of man and the Civil War to abolish slavery and have now gone back on both principles" (p. 743).
"The stuff in the papers about fraternization is all wet. All that sort of writing is done by Jews to get revenge. Actually the Germans are the only decent people left in Europe" (p. 744).
"I also wrote a letter to the Secretary of War, Mr. Stimson, on the question of the pro-Jewish influence in the Military Government of Germany. I dared do this because when I was in Washington, he showed me a great deal of correspondence he had had with the Secretary of State and Mr. Morgenthau prior to the Quebec conference" (p. 745).
"I am frankly opposed to this war criminal stuff. It is not cricket and is Semitic. I am also opposed to sending PWs to work as slaves in foreign lands [in particular, to France], where many will be starved to death. Some times I think I will simply resign and not be a further party to the degradation of my country" (p. 750).
"There is a very apparent Semitic influence in the press. They are trying to do two things: first, implement communism, and second, see that all businessmen of German ancestry and non-Jewish antecedents are thrown out of their jobs. They have utterly lost the Anglo-Saxon conception of justice and feel that a man can be kicked out because somebody else says he is a Nazi. They were evidently quite shocked when I told them I would kick nobody out without the successful proof of guilt before a court of law... Another point which the press harped on was the fact that we were doing too much for the Germans to the detriment of the DP's, most of whom are Jews" (p. 766).
"At this time it is my belief that an investigation would be futile. The noise against me is only the means by which the Jews and Communists are attempting and with good success to implement a further dismemberment of Germany. I think that if I resigned as I threatened to do yesterday, it would simply discredit me to no purpose" (p. 786).
"However, considerable remains to be done, primarily because the Jewish type of DP is, in the majority of cases, a sub-human species without any of the cultural or social refinements of our time. They prefer to live in densely populated buildings, the sexes indiscriminately mixed" (p. 787).
"In consonance with the wishes of General Eisenhower, we had removed German families...and on last Friday directed the transfer of DP's into these houses. Here we met with two peculiar resistance movements. First, in the majority of cases, they preferred to stay where they were. Second, Saturday and Sunday were the dates of a Jewish festival for taking in the harvest. Why this festival is celebrated by a group of persons who, so far as I know, have never engaged in agricultural pursuits, I do not know. However, in view of the festival, they flatly refused to move, unless we used force, prior to Monday because they had to get ready for the celebration on Friday. Again we ran into the sub-human characteristics of these people in that they do not understand toilets and refuse to use them except as repositories for tin cans, garbage, and refuse" (p. 788).
"Drew Pearson's report of the slapping incident had failed to reveal that the soldier slapped was of Jewish descent and that Patton called him a yellow-bellied or yellow-streaked Jew. Thus, behind the drive to disgrace Patton was a cabal, the members of which included Felix Frankfurter, David Niles, Sidney Hillman, Henry Morgenthau, and others, who never forgave Patton for making derogatory references to his victim's Jewish origins" (p. 791).
my quadcopter, equipped with a sneezer, would blow the walls down.
If something like this pops up next to my property, I'm ordering a trebuchet on Amazon ASAP. Just as a garden ornament.
Plus 1 for trebuchet. Touchet.
Are you saying that it had a higher price tag some years ago....otherwise, what's the point. Let's not reach for straws when we're this close. Surely we can talk about missing airplanes or Bieber's disposition, anything but impending doom, but this?
I remember one of my old roommates designing something similar ago in "The Sims". At least that one went away when the computer was off.
Be a lot more impressive if the turrets had anti-aircraft guns mounted on them.
That would look bitchin! but it would still get smoked by a hellfire.
How much is trebuchet insurance in TX?
Can I pour large pots of bioling hot oil on IRS agents when they come a'knockin?
If yes, it's worth a lot more than a million.
The Branch Davidian nieghbors tried that with Treasury agents (IRS,BATF), and the US Gubmint RENO/CLINTON incinerated 90 children, ... so go ahead and provoke the IRS when they coming for a knock&talk, or I should say a chat&fuck.
Branch Davidian's, were just down the road from said 'castle'.
Yep, that Kitchen is so 1970's, you got to wonder,... but at $1M, you know its a true McMansion. Shit the land is probably 99% of the value, .. only on ZH would this be considered news.
Me thinks that the TYLER POST-BOT is really gone full retard.
How about some storys bashing BIT, AIPAC, ZIONISM, goldman-sacks, jpm, or USA, or ISrael? Ball's drop off Tyler pussy's?
Dood, check your facts. It was BAFTE about some allegations of illegal weapons (child endangerment added later), which Koresh invited agents to inspect, but the play had already been written and Reno and Holder had to follow the script ergo women and children were incinerated or machine-gunned down.
"The Branch Davidian nieghbors tried that with Treasury agents (IRS,BATF), and the US Gubmint RENO/CLINTON incinerated 90 children, ... "
Remember who was in charge of the Army's armored assault and the immolation of those innocent folk?
General Wesley Clark. I think he was promised a 2004 presidential candidacy in exchange for the murders.
Watch "Waco The Big Lie". Probably available on youtube. You'd have to be the most useful idiot on the planet if you could watch that and not understood what a fucking pack od lies the American public was sold. The compliant media sold lie after lie after lie, and I knew people who thought that David Koresh was a child molester, the Anti-Christ, and prepared to kil the world.
"How about some storys bashing BIT, AIPAC, ZIONISM, goldman-sacks, jpm, or USA, or ISrael?"
How's this? During the campaign, Clark suddenly remembered that he was the 7th son of a 7th son of a rabbi. That was the same campaign during which John Kerry suddenly remembered his jewish roots. That was not too long after Madelaine Albright "suddenly" remebered her Jewish roots. "Suddenly"?? Your grandfather - whom you often visited - was a fucking rabbi. I suppose that our first confirmation of her memory was that she's a fucking liar.
Funny how everybody who is about to "DIE" all of a sudden has a Jewish granny, which of course make's you a 'made man'
in the eye's of Sauron, I mean ZIO-NEO-CON.
No Repunzal..I am out
Well No...she escaped...and looking at the pictures she did so for good reason...!
Where the political elites retire.
Tel-Aviv, all else retire in Texas.
Ever been to Texas? If flys, locust, maggots and hornets are bad, this is where they go when they die.
No shit. Everything here stings, bites, or pokes holes in your hide. Plus no public land. It has been a while since I have been able to take my gun for a walk.
Will Blackstone provide a NODOC mortgage?
Fog mirror will finance.
"We've already got one! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"
man ... they sure don't build castles like they used to ...
The vendor finally overcome with embarrassment at living in a fake glory hole? This is a castle! http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00666/sheriff-hutton-cast_66...
I didn't downvote you but no, that was a castle. (I presume)
Is it within walking distance of the Crusades?
Castles are a place where you can keep what you steal.
"Bundler's McBode"
We all live in our castles and are supposed to steal from ourselves or others for the government to keep our rights of abode and the upkeep thereof we got granted in return.
Walter White could use this to make about eighty million dollars or so.
It's only a model
They said I was daft to build a castle at the height of a bubble. It fell when the bubble popped. So I built a second one. And it fell when the next bubble popped. So I built a third one. It burned down, flipped over then fell when the third bubble popped. But the fourth one, the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're gonna get lad, the strongest castle in these suburbs!
Not to mention, she's got 'uge ...tracts of land!
Shhh!
This looks like the perfect place to start my porn production company. First up, the bondage of Diane Feinstein, staring as "Ass Ripped" co staring "Donkey Dick"
I am sure that this is something even a donkey will not do.
Blindfold it and give it viagra. Just don't let it know what it has done afterwards. I'm not into animal cruelty.
Boring, ugly and overpriced...........
Castle building should be left to the British/Germans.
And sand sculptors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sand_sculpture.jpg
One up there, as thats amazing.
bon homme
is that a muslim castle? I see shades and shapes of terrisssm
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How many Orcs has it repelled recently?
After the shelves are stripped bare at Wally's, this will be the next stop. They should just paint a bullseye on the side of it. Better yet, put a sign down by the road "Come hither ye, and rip off my pretentious ass"
"Walls do not a castle make." Any self-respecting castle needs a fully equipped dungeon.
Definitely not a mansion of some individual.
Some cult`s empty premises.
This place is just begging for some enterprising soul to come and open a restaurant/bar/conference center/reception hall/party facility/dance club, depending on the zoning laws, of course. The grounds need work, but with the right landscaping you could have a lovely arbor for outside wedding ceremonies. In another area, an English garden to serve high tea. The ladies really like that and will pay big bucks to sip tea in elegant surroundings and indulge in syllabubs and triffles and scones and cucumber sandwiches cut in fancy shapes. It could be promoted as "reminiscent of the estates of old Europe," or some such hogwash. I'll bet it could be had for less than $949,000.
Hold on, this castle looks suspiciously like the Super Mario Brothers setup.
Where are the plumber brothers Draghia and Montia when you need them?
Anyway this is crass, come to Europe for real castles
Sooner or later, the fucker's gotta come outside.
"This 2002-built, 8-bedroom, 8-bath single-family detached property in Rockwall, TX"...
Texas.
That explains it!
Finally! Enough room for my Sumatran Elephant and white rhino mounts!
A $mil in East TX will get you a nice home and 50+ acres away from Dallas. Rockwall is about 20 minutes from the zombie hordes coming out of DFW when the SHTF.
It should be an indoor flea market and food court.
The guy who built this is a short fat fuck with multiple issues....just a guess ..
Where's the guillotine?! I couldn't live there without a guillotine.
Pretty damn hideous. Whoever designed this had no idea what a real castle looks like. Come on, you don't put windows at ground level in something designed as a fortification. Not to mention that you find a nice hilltop to build on.
If you want a castle to own, at least go with the real thing: http://www.businessinsider.com/1000-year-old-castle-in-germany-for-223-m...
I've seen better kitchens under bridges!..............
Kitchen and front lawn are atrocious.
A Dr. Who phone booth out front would help for Treckie conventions, and a dungon with 50 shades of ghosts and a dominetrix would be interesting.
I just need Suzanne to research this, then Linda to sign off my NINJA loan, and I'm in!
How well do those walks stand up to my trebuchet?
Excellent. Somewhere to park my 427 Cobra kit car.
Bizzarely, the more I look at this the better it actually looks. I think I should stop, my first impressions were correct.
Missing a moat and a drawbridge but still has potential for an eatery of some sort once the kitchen is outfitted properly and it is re-zoned commerical. Install bowling lanes in that unfinished basement, name it Sir Gallahad's Pizza Castle and cha-ching. Lots of parking once you pave that ratty lawn. Upstairs can be leased out for events including conventions for Magic The Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons. It's got potential I tell ya.
Electrci bill in the summer $2,500/month....Prop Tax, betchas $12,000 +/-
Prop tax $28.4, checked the roles.
Looks like a castle, but really, really sucks from a defensive capability as castle deisigns go... thin walls, square corners, poor lines of sight, unprotected entrances.
... a moron's castle.
Cheap price.
What a f$^cking disgrace. Add this mock castle to the long laundry list of real estate White Elephants funded (and otherwise never would have been allowed to happen) with cheap Fed money. These real estate catastrophes, ironically often involving licensed real estate professionals as principals, are the most visible and disgusting examples of mal-investment resulting from the Fed’s hubris and easy money made available to the real estate industry.
At least the Vanderbilt’s occasionally lived in the monstrous estates they built, before they went to ruin and were taken over by various historical societies. But somehow I don’t think anyone will ever live in this piece of shit, or pay $30 bucks to tour it after the original owners are long dead.
A castle with windows like that won't be effective against zombies
The trouble with taking a position is you may be required to defend it.
The trouble with taking a position is you may be required to defend it.
Bah! Fly a model airplane into it and it would collapse in its own footprint within an hour.
"Your castle fucking sucks!" - Randy Marsh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMm8gP-JzpA
There's no accounting for poor taste.
'buy 1 , get 1 free' apllies here ? I might be interested
Our architecture is all wrong for a post collapse world. In a collapse without heat, air conditioning and running water, our homes will all become uninhabitable. Take a look at real Dark Age architecture. Mott and Baily is the way to go. A determined group can throw one up with shovels and chain saws. http://www.whscms.org.uk/getfile.php?src=981/Castles%206.ppt
Well, I guess that the whackos who regularly attend these kinds of events (link imbedded) ran out of money for their fair steeds to joust with! Friesians are not very popular around here, but some of the city folks still are into English events. More money and attendance if you are involved in Team Penning, Team Roping, Sorting or rodeo rough stock. Looks like they may have chosen the wrong breed for the area. Even Arabians don't market well here.
I have an aunt that lives in Rockwell. I may have to visit her some day and check out this place. Although hideous in design, it does look like it would make a great party palace.