We visited Boldt Castle many years ago. The only room that was finished was the dining room. Since most of the castle was never finished to begin with, we weren't allowed to just wander around inside the building because we were told it was too dangerous. It was a guided tour. At the time, there was some question as to whether or not it would ever be finished because of the high cost. I am so happy to see that it has been restored and finished to what it was intended to be. So beautiful.

There is a reason why they close the museum and village at 5:00 every day. otherwise I would buy a membership and never leave. I would find a tree to sleep in at night if it rains or gets to cold I will sleep in one of the horse barns and go to stand 44 for breakfast lunch and the Eagle tavern for dinner and hit the custard stand at 9:00p.m. for disert.

The Fox River Trolley Museum has an enviable collection..

Thanks for the video, I hope to visit soon. I see it frequently passing by on the Fox River trail.

Awesome video..! Million thanks for sharing..

This was beautifully presented. The most well decorated and tasteful home of the period I’ve ever seen. What a treat! Thanks.

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Just beautiful there, thank you! I would like to mention that the estate is pronounced HEW- IT. And their name is pronounced CYBERLING. The last time I was there, their daughter was still living above the guest house, and was over 100 years old-- I can't remember exactly, but I seem to remember she was either 107 or 102! I was thinking 107. I will have to look it up. Gorgeous home, take the tour if you ever get the chance.

I enjoyed your vid. Thank you.

Visited as a kid in the 1980’s and it was amazing and beautiful then, even in disrepair. So great to see so much progress on it. One of the best times with my parents.

I toured the breaker mansion in Newport Rhode Island

Had a school trip here in early 60s and i remember thinking it was so sad it never was finished. We were told his wife died in a boating accident on the rocks below the castle on a trip to see how construction was going and that's why george never returned.

Also Mr. Sieberling's name is pronounced "CYBERling". My wife's biological fathers family lived in Akron from the mid-twenties until 1999. Her paternal grandfather worked for Good Year for 35 years, her grandmother did a World War II defense job at the plant, making parts for aircraft. She made parts that went into the "Enola Gay" that dropped the bombs on Japan. Her father, after serving in the airforce, earned his journeyman maintenance electricians card at Good Year. My father-law used to have to change all the lights on the top of the blimp hanger when my wife was a baby. He went on to get his master maintenance electricians card at GMAC Lordstown and retired from there in 1998.

The name is pronounced "Stan HUGHet" Lovely place and breath-taking gardens, according to my wife. Her paternal grandmother did laundry for Mrs. Seiberling while the hall was being built.

To each their own. That's one ugly building/church.

Where's henry's copy of mein kampf?

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Years back I learned of the Alder planetarium and started researching a trip across the US to one day visit it. I planned and saved for a year to go. I called several times over the year and learned of a special event and was one of the first to book a ticket to the event. I spoke with a contact I developed there and asked for the best seat so that I could film it with a special low light camera with a (at the time) prototype low light lens. I arrived to the event hours early and was the first in line when it opened. The seat my contact reserved for me was a seat in the center that provided enough room for a tripod to be setup without getting in the way. I got my camera setup and sat down in awe at the beautiful environment. My nervous anticipation sweat began to cool off in the nice low lit chill planetarium as calming ambient music was played. Then a young usher came up to me and said “sir you need to move to another seat, we need this seat for someone in a wheelchair”. The young man wasn’t asking, he ordered it. I politely refused and gave my contacts name and explained how I had planned and saved for a year to attend the event and film it. He said he didn’t care and that my contact wasn’t present that day. They moved me to the rear of the room, had me pack up my camera setup because it was too large to setup in the new location, and wheeled in a special needs person. Couldn’t tell if it was a man or woman. The entire show this wheelchaired individual stared at me, not even one second at the ceiling, while *vomiting and drooling* all over itself and the floor. I walked out after 45min of this and asked for a refund to which they refused. To this day I swear it was the gods testing my patience. Even KZfaqs algo still remembers this because it quickly recommended your video to me to taunt me!

Great video, so much respect for Abe Lincoln.

This is Russian Orthodox not Greek Orthodox. You lost all credibility

It is a beautiful place

Wow 🤯 it’s mind blowing to see how long we have used the same model for prisons in the US. The focus on rehabilitation isn’t really still what’s going on, but they say it is. I wish I could’ve had a garden 🪴

You're wrong about Capone. He was there but it was before his tax evasion case. He got himself arrested on purpose for an illegal gun because it was the safest place at the time because of assassination attempts. I believe after his conviction for tax evasion he went to Leavenworth and the Alcatraz opened and he was sent there.

The music is a bit too loud….

didn't they have any bars back in those days?

Toured it many years ago. They have made a lot of improvements and additions since. Will be making a stop there again.

Middle ages - roughly 400 to 1400. The Tudor period was 1485 to 1603. A Tudor revival cannot, by derfinition, be "middle ages" - you're off by about a 1000 year period of time, that's quite a margin of error. I'm very skeptical that what you call a "nanny's room" is that at all, it appears to be a sleeping porch (a pre-airconditioning option for summer), and would be absolutely miserable in cold months for sleeping. I distrust everything you said afterwards as it seems like you're just making this up and saying it out loud. It would be a very poor household, that had the cook in charge of the wine for example - the etymology of Butler is 'keeper of the bottles'. Cooks were also rarely in charge of staff outside the kitchen, any reasonably good sized house would have a housekeeper in charge of most of the staff, including the cook. I'm also skeptical about the "cooks bedroom" - staff bedrooms were usually locaeted in the atics and were tiny and basic.

Amazing place! The Nanny's room is a Sun Room. Warm in winter with lots of natural light. It would have been used as a sleeping porch in the summer with all the windows open for breezes. It would have been been a miserable bedroom in 1879. Extreme temps and very exposed with all the surrounding windows. Nice video Joe. Cheers!

I went through this house with my grandmother , who was in her 90s at the time. She knew what many of the items were in the house, even ones the guide didn't know, because she grew up in a large house in the early 1900s herself. What a lovely mansion it is.

The Ellwood home has some beautiful features. I don't think I have ever seen a staircase with a balcony before. And that living rooms fireplace is magnificent. Obviously they were living much differently than most of all the rest of the country of the times.

This video is incredibly well done. I had lost interest is traveling to this attraction, but the high quality of this presentation has rekindled my interest.

Very informative video. Never imagined there are so many things to see on 90 acres. All exhibits looked interesting and everything seemed well spaced and not crammed together. Must take many days to see all the displays and read the story boards. Thanks for posting.

for a man who was quoted as saying "history is bunk" this place is quite amazing! would love to visit.

This is by far one of the best videos on Boldt Castle! Excellent!! Thank you for all the background history! And just a small note, that is not a swimming pool in the castle. That was for the water powered elevator from what a guide said.

I am a fan of FLW but I did not know about this building. Sadly, it is a great disappointment. There are only two things wrong in the design but they preclude worship: pews and two separate floors. We cannot be separated like this by having to occupy two floors: the priest or bishop cannot bless the congregation if he cannot see them all and the deacon cannot cense everyone and cense all the icons if he cannot get to them. We have to be on the samr floor because we need to move throughout the temple during worship (for veneration, blessing, partaking of Holy Communion) Also PEWS! Orthodox worship requires standing and freedom of movement for kneeling and prostration, sitting on the floor to gather herbs and weaving garlands- not to mention the ritual processions by the clergy and congregation. I am so sad that this is a complete fail.

Very refined, classic & controlled luxury. Not the over the top rococo I envisioned.

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Il est dommage qu’en France, l’on ne fasse pas cas de cette illustre famille française ! Ils ont eu l’intelligence de fuir la barbarie que fut la révolution française et de prospérer dans un pays qui a sut les accueillir !…

You are spelling and pronouncing the name wrong, it’s Nemours, not Nemoirs, it sounds Nemurs, not Nemuars. You even do it right at the beginning of the video.

C'EST TRES MAGNIFIQUE!!

Thank you. That was delightful. I never stay for the whole video but I did with this one !

I think this is my favorite gilded age home; one I would want to visit. Thanks

Loved the tour! Keep up the great work. JUM 🎉

Thank you

I enjoyed your tour 🎉

What an ugly Church! Orthodox Churches are so beautiful! This one is not Orthodox!

hideous, should have never deviated from proper Orthodox architecture. There is theology and symbolism in Orthodox architechture. What is wrong with Greek Americans? Why do they fetishize American anti Christian liberaiism?

Great work Joe! Would ever consider posting more videos from the South Bend Charismatic Conferences in the 70s?

Loved this one. Wondering what year the oliver mansion was built? Looking forward to the next video! Keep up the good work. JIM ❤

So terrible. possibly the worst Orthodox temple every designed.