On Thursday, September 18, the Tovrea Carraro Society held a ribbon-cutting for the re-creation of Carraro Cottage and the Caretakers’ House as part of Tovrea Castle’s legacy.
“The castle was completed in 2010 and opened for tours in 2012. In 2015, two of our oldest buildings were taken out by the monsoon and by a microburst. Since that time, we’ve been raising money to be able to put up the Carraro Cottage and the Caretakers’ House. They’ve been completely recreated. The buildings themselves were totally destroyed. So we have our two oldest buildings that actually predated the castle, now available to be seen from the tour. We’re not going inside the buildings, but you do get a chance to look at what they looked like back then,” explained Tamera Zivic, President of the Tovrea Carraro Society, to ABC15.
If one wonders about the significance of recreating the two outbuildings, Zivic explains why it mattered.
“They’re the two oldest buildings, and they actually represent both the homesteaders, the Warners who lived in the Caretakers’ House, originally, where the castle stands now, and the Carraro Cottage, where the builder who owned the 277 acres and his dream of the castle, where he and his son lived during the building of the castle. So it really takes us back in time all the way to 1907,” said Zivic.
Although the nearly century-old castle requires constant upkeep, Thursday’s celebration focused on the completion of two newly rebuilt buildings…