NYC’s Strangest Castle Was a Glorified Warehouse for Civil War Surplus Weapons

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Bannerman Castle, New York

Looking at that image, you’d think someone found ruins from the old country and shipped them over stone by stone. Nope.

Francis Bannerman built his castle from scratch in 1901. The weapons dealer had so much army surplus he needed his own private island to hold it all…

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