TUPPER LAKE, N.Y. — Moving through his unfinished mountain home, Andy Ramsgard carries a leatherbound book full of sketches.Read the rest here.
The sketches, when viewed in the open rooms of exposed concrete and scattered tools, conjure a sense of what will be: the floating balcony to the great room, the stone fireplace to gather around, the crenelated parapet rimming the rooftop — “So we can rain arrows down on unwanted intruders below,” he explained.
Up a winding road in this Adirondack town, past small houses stacked with firewood and marked by snowmobile trails, a castle rises in the forest.
Four stories of thick concrete, a spiral staircase and a turret stand amid white pines and cedar. The rooftop tower is yet to come, but it is in the sketches, as well as secret passageways and a spy hole hidden in a painting.
Oh, and there will be a drawbridge.
What kid didn't dream of having his own castle?
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