Visiting Colorado’s Hand-Made Castle

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5 min readJul 28, 2022

You read that right, hand-made. Ever heard of Bishop’s Castle?

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The project began when Jim Bishop was 15. He bought the land for this project for $450 with the intention of building a cottage with his family. As he intuitively placed the rocks together for this initial project, the neighbors joked that it look like a castle. This made him wonder, consider, and soon enough, commit to making a castle.

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