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Not one of my favorite layouts but this really is all about the journaling and I wanted to include as much as I could:
Self-made millionaire George Boldt, who managed the famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, had the castle built on an island for the love of his life - his wife, Louise beginning in 1900. The project employed over 300 skilled workers, masons and artisans and not only included the grand 6-story castle, but 11 supplemental structures on the island as well. The love heart symbol was to be repeated in the castle’s plaster, stonework, and wrought-iron work and the island was even reshaped by using sea walls to achieve the shape of a valentine’s heart. George planned to present the completed castle to his beloved Louise on Valentine’s Day in 1905. The project came to a sudden and terrible halt in early 1904 after the sudden death of Louise at the age of 41 from heart disease. Devastated, George ordered the construction of the castle to stop even though it was only months away from completion. The grief stricken widower never again returned to Heart Island.
Boldt died alone in his room at the Waldorf-Astoria in 1916 at the age of 65.
The entire Boldt Castle property was then purchased by a wealthy fruit company owner named Edward John Noble. Over the next few decades, the E.J. Noble Foundation opened the Castle and its grounds as a tourist attraction. But it was not well kept, maintained, or even secured, and the unfinished structures fell victim to weather, neglect, vandals, thieves and even fire which gutted the structure in 1939. In 1977 the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority acquired Heart Island and the nearby yacht house. Purchased for one dollar, they agreed that all revenues obtained from the castle operation would be applied towards restoration so that the island would be preserved for the enjoyment of future generations.
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