Even Wichitans who don’t typically go to estate sales have been buzzing about this one.
Earlier this week, a Facebook post started circulating promising a sale at the Belmont Castle, 320 N. Belmont, and so far, 2,000 people and counting have marked themselves as “interested.”
Why wouldn’t they be? A castle? In Wichita? That’s not the Campbell Castle?
The “castle” where the sale runs through Saturday is technically more of a Jacobean Revival manor. The 8,000-square-foot College Hill mansion, built in 1922 by Robert Clapp — an aircraft executive and the youngest son of prominent Wichita mayor Robert Clapp — has been owned by well-known Wichita physician and Old Town Architectural Salvage owner Grant Rine and his wife, Janet, for the past 13 years.
Janet loved the five-bedroom, seven-bathroom house, which she saw as a fairy tale castle, and the couple lived there for a decade, Rine said. They poured more money than he wants to count into renovating the house, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, and threw many memorable parties in its “great hall,” which boasts a three-story-high, vaulted, wood-beamed ceiling…