My very first castle visit - Casa Loma, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
A 98 room castle built on a hill overlooking Toronto. It had 30 bathrooms, 25 fireplaces, 3 bowling alleys, a shooting gallery, a 1,700 bottle wine cellar, a library with space for 10,000 volumes and 5 acres of splendid gardens . It was built by Sir Henry Pellatt a Canadian financier. The owners only lived there a short while. It has an 800 foot tunnel between the house and stables, towers and two secret passageways. (City Sightseeing Official Tour Toronto Pamphlet and 2015 CAA TourBook).
Water fountain out front
The pink at the top is my finger....... :-( The ornamental cabbages were glorious and the hydrangeas would have been resplendent earlier in the season!
Thanksgiving Fall Display
I inherited an upright pump organ made of this dark wood, but this one is a fireplace.
A grand, carved wooden chair.
Look up....instead of gargoyles or cherubs, the castle was full of all different sorts of characters such as this one.
Looking up again was a knight...above him were the pipes for the organ, there is another picture later.
Fireplaces everywhere!
Grand piano...there were others.
This was the ceiling in one room with hand painted pictures.
Nice to have the stag with the rack of antlers overlooking the fireplace!
Not the greatest picture quality, but that is a moose head in the men's parlour/games room.
This was the sitting area overlooking the billiard table. It was a place you wanted to spend time, no doubt!
One wall of the library.
A type of side board, china cupboard.
Dining Room
More like a throne than a chair.
A room ready for royalty...but an exceptionally short bed....people were much shorter in those days.
The next two pictures show the rooms for royalty.
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Looking down from the balcony at the organ.
Organ pipes...the ceilings are massively high, 60 feet!
The master's bed in his chambers....his wife had her own bed and chambers too.
Not sure I have seen a more nicely decorated mirror.
Pool season is pretty much over, but you can see the remnants.
There was an oriental room with this screen.
Elegant couch
Swank dining room suite
A modest room for a servant.
For more pictures and an in-depth story, please visit the website at www.casaloma.ca.
