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| Thousand Islands power house Canada 99 piece jigsaw puzzle |
The title on this puzzle intrigued me. Did Canada build a big power plant styled to look like a castle? I mean, that's the kind of thing Canada might do. Alas, that is not the case as I realized once I had finished it. It's not really big enough to be a utility kind of power plant, but it is plenty big enough to be a power plant for a house, even a really big house. This house:
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| Boldt Castle in the center of Heart Island The power plant is at the lower right |
In 1900, George Boldt, general manager of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City and manager of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, . . . launched an ambitious construction campaign to build a huge masonry structure, one of the largest private homes in the United States. . . . The construction of Boldt Castle ceased abruptly in early 1904 after the death of Boldt's wife, Louise Kehrer Boldt. . . . The Thousand Islands Bridge Authority acquired Heart Island and the nearby yacht house in 1977, . . . As of 2020, over $50 million has been spent on restoration and rehabilitation work on the Castle and surrounding structures. - WikipediaThe Thousand Islands area is part of the St. Lawrence River. The Castle is about half way between Ottawa and Syracuse, New York.
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