They wanted a castle. So Jim Bishop was going to build them a castle.
It was 1969 when the ornamental ironworker in his late 20s set out building a stone cottage near Pueblo, Colorado, with the help of his father, intending to make a home out of a shack. But what began as a construction project turned into a beacon for freedom some 50 years in the making. Bishop Castle would be born from it.
The seed for a castle was planted when some locals drove by the stone cottage and commented how its latest addition—an improvised water tank finished in masonry and furnished with arched windows—looked so very castle-like. This got the wheels of Jim’s imagination turning….