R.I.P.

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Jim Bishop

https://www.bishopcastle.org/

https://www.cpr.org/2024/11/21/james...le-dies-at-80/
https://www.westword.com/arts/colora...-away-22588005

Bishop was just fifteen in 1959 when he paid $450 for a two-and-a-half-acre parcel of land at 9,000 feet in the San Isabel National Forest, just outside the tiny town of Rye.

An ironworker by trade, the Pueblo resident labored on weekends, mostly singlehandedly on what was intended to be a small cottage. More than five decades later it stands about 165 feet tall, boasts stained glass windows and is topped by a metal dragon that can breathe smoke from a woodstove inside.

?Without cranes, without money, without a rich daddy. By hand. High school dropout. I work for a living. I paid as I went. No bankers, no loans, no blueprints, no inspections. A place of freedom. A fight for freedom,? Bishop said in a NPR interview in 1994.

It has been described as "authentically dangerous," by more than one visitor.

Interesting guy. Cool place to visit.