'Castle Craftsman Withstands Long State Siege Colorado: Jim Bishop draws 60,000 visitors a year to his creation in the mountains while fending off assaults by highway and tax officials'. 'A Man's Castle Under Siege by Bureaucrats'. 'Meet the man behind Bishop Castle, whose Colorado creation is a source of public envy and private ruin'.

^ 'From a life's labor, a castle rises, Jim Bishop started his 160-foot-high creation in 1969.

'The craziest castle in Colorado: Bishop's vision is a work in progress'. 'Adobe to Steel': Byway exhibit focuses on history's foundation: buildings'. 'RENOWNED ROADSIDE ATTRACTION BISHOP CASTLE UNDER SIEGE IN SOUTHERN COLORADO'.

^ a b c CALHOUN, PATRICIA (3 September 2015).

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'Builder prefers being king of what he sees/Castle is maverick's 33- year labor of love'. Archived from the original on 13 October 2015. Since then, the Bishops have 'spent $20,000 trying to get a clear title to Bishop Castle, and to get Merrill's name off all paperwork.' According to website, Merrill turned the site 'into Castle Church-for the Redemption, according to the Custer County Clerk and Recorder's Office'.

In the winter of 2014–15 a dispute developed over control of the castle after Jim Bishop and his wife Phoebe were both diagnosed with cancer, and David Merrill, who Jim 'considered a friend,' was made a trustee of Bishop Castle. If you and your children want to avoid potentially offensive rants (involving politics), you may want to steer clear.' But it also issued a 'parent's alert,' warning potential visitors that Jim Bishop is 'a tough-talking man with strong, extreme beliefs, and sometimes he expresses them bluntly and loudly. The site has become a tourist attraction, and devoted a chapter to the castle and rated it 'major fun' and describing it as, 'one man's massive-obsessive labor of medieval fantasy construction'. They settled the dispute by issuing official road signs. In 1996, he was challenged by the local and state government over unsanctioned road signs that pointed to the site. 'Bishop felt that they were his for the taking, the government wanted to charge him per truckload.' That dispute has been settled. When Bishop was asked in 2016 why he continued to build the castle he replied 'Well, what am I gonna run to?! He loved this place.' Īccording to Roadsideamerica, 'for most' of the 40 years he has worked on the castle 'Bishop was engaged in a running battle with Washington bureaucrats over the rocks that he used,' which came from the National Forest surrounding his property. In 1988 Bishop's third child, four year old Roy was killed in a logging accident at the castle site. Bishop took this into consideration and soon began building his castle. After Bishop surrounded the cottage with rocks, several neighbors noted that the structure looked something like a castle. Overview īishop bought the land for the site for $450 when he was 15, and construction on what was originally intended to be a family project to build a cottage started in 1969. The 'castle' is located in south central Colorado on State Highway 165 in the Wet Mountains of Southern Colorado in the San Isabel National Forest, southwest of Pueblo, Colorado. The front of the castle with view of towers.īishop Castle is an 'elaborate and intricate' 'one-man project' named after its constructor, Jim Bishop, that has become a roadside attraction in central Colorado.

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