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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
Today's Jan 10 Sunday www.citizen.com has an article on the Castle in the Clouds with a long, detailed description of all the structural and repair construction improvements.
Castle trivia - Tom Plante, the shoe manufactorer from Boston who built the Castle in about 1912 lost all his money in 1917 Russian war bonds when Lenin & the Bolshevics won the great Russian revolution and sent the czar on a permanent vacation.
Anyway, the story I heard was Tom Plante ended up a poor, sick, pennyless, pauper working in the Castle kitchen. (....at 15% guaranteed interest...what could go wrong, my friend?)
Maybe the Castle could put up a plaque with a photo and a decription of his fate, since he did in fact purchase all the land, design and build the Castle...............  |
According to the tour guide in late September ('09): After Plante lost all his money, he was "Allowed" to live in the house in the manner to which he was acustomed, but with a much reduced staff. I think his young wife left him as well. He also had a neice that would come and visit from time to time. She had her own bedroom.
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EDIT: My Wife ..(She keeps track of such things.. where men are sometimes totally deficient). She has indicated that some corrections need to be made to the above. There were TWO wives. Plante met a young women in Europe (He was currently married) whom he eventually married. He returned home and offered his first wife a substantial $ settlement ... for the time.. for a divorce. My wife thinks it was a million dollar check rolled up in her napkin ring at breakfast. . She thinks she..the Second wife.. stayed with Plante for the rest of their lives...in the house.