Exploring Bishop Castle, CO with Sharpens Best Brad Buckner Adventurer

Looking around Bishop Castle with No One else around. A walk around the One Man Built Bishop Castle in Southern Colorado - See more cool stuff at http://www.YouTube.com/SharpensBest

The Birth of a Castle
Snow doesn't melt completely at 9000 feet usually until the middle of May, sometimes even into June, so the summer building season is a short one, especially when you're dealing with mortar which cannot freeze while it's drying.

There's only so much that can be done in a couple months while still working in the ornamental iron shop to support the family. Jim started building his cabin, and after a while Jim and Willard started trading off two week stints, one at the shop running the business and one up the mountain working on the family cabin.

This lasted until the late spring of 1971, when the problem of getting running water into the cabin arose. Willard suggesting putting in a large metal tank that he had salvaged from a welding job to be a gravity fed cistern that they'd have to have filled once or twice a summer. Jim thought it'd be functional, and construction began on the water tank. It is a 40 foot metal cylinder which Willard surrounded with stonework.

Jim continued to build his cottage, and the walls grew. Throughout the summer, family friends, a couple local ranchers, and even some family members commented that it looked like they were building a castle! "Hey Jim! That looks like a turret or something!" "What are you building, a castle?!"

Jim heard that enough times that by the time late spring 1972 rolled around, his imagination had been stirred something fierce, and Mr. Jim Bishop started telling friends and family that he was in fact going to be building a castle! When Willard first heard this, he stated matter of factly that castles tended to be pretty huge and that he wasn't going to have anything to do with it!

"That's just too much work!" Jim kept right on building, and the construction that began as a one room stone cottage with an Eiffel Tower shaped fireplace gave birth to this country's, and maybe even the world's, largest one man project ~ The Bishop Castle.

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