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About Stokes Castle
Stokes Castle is a sight (Castles) in Austin. Up-to-date information is available on its own website, and you can reach it by phone at +17759642200. Just around the corner: Pony Canyon Motel (hotel, 495 m).
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- Sight › Castles
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- Address
89310 Austin, USA- Phone
- +17759642200
- Website
- www.robertwynn.com
- chamber@austinnevada.com
- Coordinates
- 39.49355° N · -117.07971° E
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It is a three-story stone tower located near Austin, Nevada. It was built by Anson Phelps Stokes, a mine developer, railroad magnate, and banker. Intending the building as a summer home, Stokes began building the castle in 1896, completing it in 1897. The castle is patterned after a tower that Stokes had seen and admired in the Roman Campagna in Italy, and the castle is built of hand-hewn native granite, and the stones were hoisted into place with a hand winch and held in place with rock wedging and clay mortar. Eventually, however, the castle fell into disrepair until Molly Magee Knudsen, a cousin of Stokes, bought the castle in 1956. The tower was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The "Castle" is owned by HW Trapnell of Austin and Dunsmuir, California.
Source: Wikivoyage, „Austin (Nevada)“ · authors per page history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · as of 3/31/2018