Old House Dreamer

49 Florida Ave, Amsterdam, NY – $1.5 Million
This is known as Amsterdam Castle. 10 bed, 5 bath, 36000 square feet on 2 acres. “New York originally built 100 of these armories, of which nearly 50 are still in use by the National Guard.” This has 50 rooms, includes a gym, rifle range, fallout shelter, billiard room, helicopter pad. It was also featured on HGTV’s ‘ReZoned.’ Check out this site for more information and a ton of pics. Check out the street view here.

23858 Brush Creek Rd, St. Mary, Missouri – $3.2 Million
Could not find a reliable build date so unsure of age but possibly brand new. This is a very cool Bavarian style Castle. 5 beds, 3.5 baths, square footage unavailable all on 692 acres with a 20 acre lake. Beautifully built from “local materials, carved woods, lead-glass windows, hand-painted ceilings, carved staircases and 3 beautiful fireplaces.” Also has an indoor swimming pool.

659 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI – $7.2 Million

The house of all houses…mansions…castles! Belcourt Castle was built in 1894 after beginning construction in 1891. Richard Morris Hunt designed it for Oliver HP Belmont for him to live in it for only 6 to 8 weeks of the year. 50,000 square foot with 60 rooms. 10 beds, 9 bathrooms. Based on the Louis XIII hunting lodge at Versailles, construction cost $3.2 million in 1894, a figure of approximately $65 million in 2005. Here is an interesting article about the sale of the house. And here is the Belcourt website.

333 Ocean Rd, Narragansett, RI – $7 Million

Oh, cool! Buy a castle without having to go to Europe to find one. 15 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms and over 36,000 square feet, you could get lost for a while in this one. This is called “Hazard Castle”, built in 1882 by Joseph Hazard. Read a little more about it here.