End lines: The map - Romancing the stones From the Taj Mahal to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Fiona McClymont tells the heart-breaking stories behind the world's greatest monuments to love

From: The Independent - London | Date: February 13, 1999| Author: Fiona McClymont | Copyright information

Boldt Castle (1) Boldt Castle is a multi-million-dollar monument to love in the Thousand Islands Region of the St Lawrence River. It stands on Heart Island, so named because the island, formed from landfill, is in the shape of a heart. The castle was built by George C Boldt as a display of his love for his wife, Louise. Boldt, the millionaire proprietor of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, set out in 1900 to build a full size, six-storey, 120-room replica of a Rhineland castle on the isl...

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