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Built in the Chateauesque style, Boldt Castle was built by George Boldt, proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City and manager of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, for his bride on an Island he shaped as a heart. Construction started in 1900 and finished (mostly) in 1904. He engaged the architectural firm G. W. & W. D. Hewitt and hundreds of workers to build a six-story castle as a present to his wife. In addition, four other masonry structures on the island are architecturally notable (a play house, power generator house). Equally distinctive is a huge yacht house on neighboring Wellesley Island He used craftsmen from Europe to do much of the work, as many did during this time.

The Thousand Islands Bridge Authority acquired Heart Island and the nearby yacht house in 1977, for one dollar, under the agreement that all revenues obtained from the castle operation would be applied towards restoration, so that the island would be preserved for the enjoyment of future generations.

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